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Seon-hee Myong
Piano Catalonia/Korea Soloist Teacher of the Barenboim–Said Foundation |
A new AIMS proposal
Seon–hee Myong, AIMS piano faculty since its creation, will be teaching both piano students and those organ students of Mr. Geffert’s AIMS organ class, who wish to receive piano lessons on advanced level. Born in Seoul, Korea, she began her studies at the age of four. At nine, she made her debut in a public recital dedicated to Ludwig van Beethoven sonatas. When she was thirteen, she made her debut as soloist with the Korean National Symphony Orchestra playing the 1st Tchaikovsky concerto. At fifteen, she moved to the United States to study at the North Carolina School of the Performing Arts with Joseph Kalichstein. From 1981 to 1985 she attended Indiana University - Bloomington studying with Edward Auer and Zadel Skolovsky, graduating with a Bachelor of Music degree and the Performer's Certificate, the highest qualification at this university. In 1985 a scholarship took her to Julliard School in New York where she studied with Joseph Kalichstein and obtained her Masters Degree. From 1988 to 1990, Seon-hee Myong was a piano professor at the State University of New York. In her career Seon-hee Myong has been given numerous prizes and awards such as the Helena Rubinstein Award and the William Patscheck Award. She has frequently performed both as soloist and in chamber-music in the United States, Asia, Europe and South America. Seon-hee recorded a CD with cellist Lluís Claret titled Homenage a Pau Casals. She has also recorded for the German, Swiss and Korean radios. Dedicated intensively to chamber music Seon-hee Myong has formed the duo Myong/Thiemann and the trio Myong/Grach/Thiemann. In 2005 the pianist and conductor Daniel Barenboim commissioned her to join the team of teachers who provide free musical education for children and adolescents in Palestine as part of the musical peace project of the Barenboim-Said Foundation. |
