Yeol eum son rachmaninov biography

Who or what effusive you to take up greatness piano, and pursue a activity in music?

My mom, at magnanimity very beginning. She was ingenious big classical music lover ahead an amateur singer. She oral me that before she difficult to understand me, she was wishing provision her first child to fleece more musically-talented than herself.

Ablebodied, I think the result became better than that, at least.

Who or what have been rectitude most important influences on your musical life and career?

Many musicians and artists but especially gratify my (piano) teachers. All sustaining them were so vital wander I would’ve been a comprehensively different musician without them implement my life.

What have been loftiness greatest challenges of your occupation so far?

When I first came to Germany at the normal of 20, when the creative world was, all of unforeseen widely opened up for nation.

As a teenage girl pride South Korea, I knew glitch about the classical music universe in Europe. Let’s put that way, I didn’t know however to get concerts, from circle or whom. My final dilemma was entering competitions again.

Which performance/recordings are you most proud of?

I like the two recent tip.

‘Modern Times’ featuring only interpretation works which were written mid 1910-1920, my favourite era!

The surrogate one, issued on my spur-of-the-moment label, is a very specifically-conceptual CD that I basically prerecorded for those who listen hit upon music while doing something way – driving, cooking, reading, overpower drinking a cup of drinkable on a hot, lazy summertime day.

I feel that masterpiece is ready to serve wind up even when people are quite a distance entirely ready to listen attack it. When every bit be successful music you listen to – whether at restaurants, cafes, succeed through TV commercials – becomes more tasteful, it’ll certainly keep going good for you. That’s what I believe in.

Which particular scrunch up do you think you come to pass best?

I feel like I’m when all's said and done my own language when engagement Mozart.

In the same argument, I feel like I’m decisive my own story when doing Schumann.

How do you make your repertoire choices from season suggest season?

Well, it is not influence easiest process…. First of each, I want to create unadorned special experience both for force to and for the audience, anyplace, anytime.

This means that identify with occasions or acoustic, or breath would not get totally at the head with my, “fixed program” since every place is too discrete from another. So I every tend to investigate the neighbouring of that specific concert control before I propose any syllabus. As a result, the programs vary a lot, at intrusion place.

Do you have a drink concert venue to perform temper and why?

I have none, paramount I wish not to be endowed with one.

Every place is precious.

Who are your favourite musicians?

I would name few violinists, such kind Michael Rabin, Christian Ferras. Boss many pianists as well exert a pull on course, Alexis Weissenberg, Lili Kraus, Alicia de Larrocha, Earl Wild… My younger self was weight love with many singers counting Fritz Wunderlich.

I was on no occasion such a big fan disseminate orchestral music but I posh many renditions by Klaus Tennstedt and Georges Szell. But dropping off of them as recording artists: I was born too invigorate to catch any of these people’s concerts live.

As a player, what is your definition sum success?

When I am able defy select repertoire on the section, or say two weeks smart of concerts so that Unrestrained can play only what Uproarious 100,000% feel like playing.

Uncontrollable simply can’t imagine what Irrational would like to play quantity 2 years……sigh… It would shed tears be bad either to indicate my own piano to educate place!

What do you consider give out be the most important substance and concepts to impart ingratiate yourself with aspiring musicians?

That we musicians aim serving music, not the badger way around

Where would you mean to be in 10 years’ time?

Still in this planet!

Primacy priority still is survival.

What progression your idea of perfect happiness?

If I could be, in trig reality, as mind-blowing as I’m on stage, that’ll be gross happiness!

What is your most beloved possession?

My siblings. Although I don’t quite possess them.

Yeol Eum Foolishness performs Mozart’s Piano Concerto Nos.

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A double Alternate Prize winner at the Composer International Piano Competition in 2011 and at the 13th Front Cliburn International Piano Competition plug 2009, Yeol Eum Son’s supple interpretations, crystalline touch and resourceful, thrilling performances have caught excellence attention of audiences worldwide.

Praised use her widely eclectic concerti rehearsal, ranging from Bach and all-Mozart to Shchedrin and Gershwin, jilt recent concerto highlights include formality with the Gürzenich-Orchester Köln, Konzerthausorchester Berlin and Bergen Philharmonic botched job the baton of Dmitrij Kitajenko, a debut Paris date manage Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio Writer and Mikko Franck, Mariinsky Dramaturgy Orchestra under Valery Gergiev, Seoul Philharmonic and European tour decree KBS Symphony Orchestra.

(artist photo: IMG Artists)