On October 5th at the Seoul Arts Center IBK Chamber Hall
Pianist Kim Su-yeon will hold a solo recital titled "Ballades" at 8 p.m. on October 5th at the IBK Chamber Hall of the Seoul Arts Center.
Kim Su-yeon will begin her performance with Schubert's Impromptu No. 1, which features a free form and an impressive, somewhat tragic theme. Following this, she will perform four Ballades by Brahms and four Ballades by Chopin, centered on the theme of ballades?a genre that has become beloved today, characterized by dance forms combined with dramatic narratives and imbued with a nationalistic and "spirit of poetry" essence.
Brahms' four Ballades were inspired by a Scottish poem from "Voices of All Nations" by the German Romantic poet H?lderlin. Chopin's Ballades were composed inspired by the works of the Polish poet Mickiewicz, who embodied the will for freedom and fraternity.
Kim Su-yeon was the first East Asian to win the piano category at the 2021 Montreal International Competition. Earlier, in 2014, she won both the Hummel International Piano Competition and the International Competition for Spanish Composers, where she also received a special prize for contemporary music. In 2020, she was the runner-up at the Mozart International Competition.
In 2023, she received the Byuksan Arts Award for Music and was selected as a Kumho Resident Artist. In July of the same year, she successfully performed as a soloist with the Brussels Philharmonic Orchestra at the closing concert of the Music Trois Festival.
Kim Su-yeon first encountered the piano at the age of five. After attending Yewon School and the Korea National Institute for the Gifted in Arts, she studied at the Korea National University of Arts before going to Austria at the age of 19. She studied under Professor Pavel Gililov at the Mozarteum University Salzburg, graduating with highest honors in both her bachelor's and master's degrees and completing the artist diploma program. She also received mentoring from Austrian pianist Paul Gulda and is currently continuing her studies with Professor Eric Le Sage at the Freiburg University of Music in Germany.
She has performed on stages such as Germany's Elbphilharmonie and Hercules Hall, Milan's La Scala Theatre, Paris Philharmonie, Liszt Academy Grand Hall, and the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., and has collaborated with orchestras including the Montreal Symphony, Royal Philharmonic, and Paris Chamber Orchestra.
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