Seunghui Kim

SOUTH KOREA
July 25, 1999

Born in 1999 Seunghui Kim started to study piano at the age of 6. After a few years, she moved to Seoul to keep studying the piano with Choong-Mo Kang and Sook Ryeon Park. She finished her Bachelor’s degree with Aviram Reichert at Seoul National University. Seunghui Kim is a 1st prize winner of Hong Kong International Piano Open Competition, Karol Szymanowski International Music Competition and Svetislav Stančić International Piano Competition. As a soloist, she has performed with numerous orchestras including Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra in Katowice. She has also attended several masterclasses with Ian Hobson, Oxana Yablonskaya, Aquiles Delle Vigne, Hortense Cartier-Bresson and Jan Michiels. Currently, she is based in Berlin where she studies under the tutelage of Björn Lehmann at Universität der Künste Berlin.

First round
Johann Sebastian Bach Prelude and Fugue No. 3 in C sharp major BWV 848, WTC I
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Piano Sonata No. 3 in B flat major K. 281
Frédéric Chopin Étude in A minor Op. 25 No. 11, Winter Wind
Claude Debussy Étude L. 136 No. 11, Pour les arpèges composés

Second round
Diana Rotaru Bulz for Piano
Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 31 in A flat major Op. 110
Sergei Prokofiev Piano Sonata No. 2 in D minor Op. 14

Semifinal
George Enescu Piano Suite No. 2 in D major Op. 10, Des cloches sonores
Frédéric Chopin Piano Sonata No. 3 in B minor Op. 58

Final
Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major Op. 58

keyboard_arrow_up