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Yekwon Sunwoo
PianoGold medallist of the Fifteenth Van Cliburn
International Piano Competition, Yekwon Sunwoo has been hailed for his
“unfailingly consistent excellence” (International Piano) and celebrated as “a
pianist who commands a comprehensive technical arsenal that allows him to
thunder without breaking a sweat” (Chicago Tribune). A powerful and virtuosic performer,
he also, in his own words, “strives to reach for the truth and pure beauty in
music”.
The first Korean to win Cliburn Gold,
Yekwon’s 21/22 season includes appearances with the Kaliningrad Philharmonic,
Seoul Philharmonic, Colorado Springs Philharmonic, as well as recitals in Great
Barrington, Key West, Dallas, Prescott, and his debut at Beethovenfest Bonn.
In previous seasons, he has performed as
soloist with the Munich Philharmonic and Valery Gergiev, Royal Danish Orchestra
with Thomas Søndergård, Fort Worth and Tucson Symphonies, Washington Chamber
Orchestra, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Houston Symphony, National Orchestra
of Belgium, Sendai Philharmonic and Royal Scottish National Orchestra amongst
others. Recital appearances include Carnegie Hall, Wigmore Hall,
Elbphilharmonie, Salle Cortot, Hong Kong Arts Festival and a tour of Japan.
An avid chamber musician, Yekwon’s
collaborators include Benjamin Beilman, Linus Roth, Andrei Ioniță,
Sebastian Bohren, Isang Enders, Tobias Feldmann, Gary Hoffman, Anne-Marie
McDermott and the Jerusalem and Brentano Quartets. He has also toured Costa
Rica, Guatemala and Panama with the Kumho Asiana Cultural Foundation and
performed at Chamber Music of Lincoln Center’s Inside Chamber Music Lectures.
In addition to the Cliburn Gold Medal,
Yekwon won first prizes at the 2015 International German Piano Award, the 2014
Vendome Prize held at the Verbier Festival, the 2013 Sendai International Music
Competition and the 2012 William Kapell International Piano Competition.
Born in Anyang, South Korea, Yekwon began
learning the piano at the age of 8 and made his recital and orchestral debuts
in Seoul at 15. His teachers include Seymour Lipkin, Robert McDonald, Richard
Goode and Bernd Goetzke.
In 2017, Decca Gold released Cliburn Gold
2017 two weeks after Yekwon was awarded the Gold Medal and includes his
award-winning performances of Ravel’s La Valse and Rachmaninov’s Second Piano
Sonata. In 2020 Yekwon went on to release his first studio album for Decca
Universal Music Korea featuring an all-Mozart programme.