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Yeol Eum Son
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About Yeol Eum Son
South Korean pianist Yeol Eum Son has succeeded both in the institutional worlds of competitions and concert halls, and online streaming: her 2011 performance of Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 21 in C Major at the Tchaikovsky Competition, where she won the Silver Medal, has amassed more than 21 million views. Her repertoire encompasses a wide range of composers from Bach and Mozart to Ligeti and Kapustin.
Born in Wonju, South Korea in 1986, Yeol Eum Son studied at the Korea National University of Arts and completed her training with Professor Arie Vardi at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover. Son made her major international breakthrough aged 18 performing as a soloist with the New York Philharmonic under Lorin Maazel.
Son drew widespread international attention when at the 2009 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition she won the Silver Medal and the Beatrice and Philip Aaron Award for Best Performance of a Chamber Music Work; a recording of her performances there marked her recording debut. After her Tchaikovsky Competition win, in 2018 she released a studio album of the Mozart Piano Concerto No. 21 with Sir Neville Marriner conducting in his last recording. After releasing an album of music by Kapustin (2021), Son issued a complete cycle of Mozart’s piano sonatas (2023), then began a series of Ravel-focused releases in 2025.
Born in Wonju, South Korea in 1986, Yeol Eum Son studied at the Korea National University of Arts and completed her training with Professor Arie Vardi at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover. Son made her major international breakthrough aged 18 performing as a soloist with the New York Philharmonic under Lorin Maazel.
Son drew widespread international attention when at the 2009 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition she won the Silver Medal and the Beatrice and Philip Aaron Award for Best Performance of a Chamber Music Work; a recording of her performances there marked her recording debut. After her Tchaikovsky Competition win, in 2018 she released a studio album of the Mozart Piano Concerto No. 21 with Sir Neville Marriner conducting in his last recording. After releasing an album of music by Kapustin (2021), Son issued a complete cycle of Mozart’s piano sonatas (2023), then began a series of Ravel-focused releases in 2025.
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