Yeol Eum Son
Pianist Yeol Eum Son has succeeded not only in the institutional worlds of competition prizes and concert bookings but also in the populist arena of online streaming services, where her 2011 performance of Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major, K. 467, at the Tchaikovsky Competition has amassed more than 21 million views. She has recorded for Decca and other major labels.
Son was born in Wonju, South Korea, on May 2, 1986, and she remains an honorary arts ambassador of the city. She began studying the piano at age three and made her recital debut at 12 as a Kumho Prodigy. The first part of her training took place in China with Cheng-Zong Yin and in Korea with Kim Dae-jin at the Korean National University of the Arts, where she matriculated at 16. In 2006, she moved to Hannover, Germany, where she studied with Arie Vardi at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater. At 18, Son made a major international breakthrough, performing as a soloist with the New York Philharmonic under Lorin Maazel. Son has continued to attract collaborations with an unusual selection of top conductors, including not only Maazel in repeat engagements but Valery Gergiev, Myung-Whun Chung, James Conlon, and Yuri Bashmet. She won second prizes at the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in 2009 (a recording of her performances there, released on the Harmonia Mundi label, marked her recording debut) and at the International Tchaikovsky Competition in 2011.
In the late 2010s, Son continued to make debuts with important orchestras across Europe, including the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the Vienna Tonkünstler Orchestra, and the NHK Symphony Orchestra, among others. Son made her Decca debut in 2016 with Modern Times, featuring famous works of 20th century modernism. In 2018, she released a Mozart recording on Onyx that featured the Piano Concerto No. 21, with which she had captivated so many viewers. In 2021, she released an album of music by jazz-classical fusion composer Nikolai Kapustin on Onyx. She moved to Naïve in 2023 for a complete cycle of Mozart's piano sonatas. For the 2022-2023 season, Son was pianist-in-residence with the Residentie Orkest in The Hague, Netherlands. An accomplished writer as well as a musician, Son is the author of a long-running weekly column in Korea's JoongAng Sunday newspaper; some of her columns were collected into a book in 2015.
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Discografia
20 album • Ordinato per Bestseller
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Mozart: Complete Piano Sonatas
Classica - Pubblicato da naïve il 17 mar 2023
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Yeol Eum Son: Mozart
Yeol Eum Son, Sir Neville Marriner, Academy of St Martin in the Fields
Musica concertante - Pubblicato da Onyx Classics il 20 apr 2018
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Love Music
Classica - Pubblicato da Naïve, a Label of Believe Group il 1 mar 2024
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Kapustin
Classica - Pubblicato da PM Classics Ltd. il 23 lug 2021
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Mozart: Adagio from Piano Sonata No.12 KV332
Classica - Pubblicato da naïve il 3 mar 2023
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Schumann: Fantasy in C / Kreisleriana / Arabesque
Classica - Pubblicato da PM Classics Ltd. il 17 apr 2020
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Chopin: Nocturnes for piano and strings
Classica - Pubblicato da Universal Music Ltd. il 1 gen 2008
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Schumann & Brahms
Classica - Pubblicato da Universal Music Ltd. il 8 nov 2016
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Mozart: Presto from Piano Sonata No.9 KV310
Classica - Pubblicato da naïve il 17 feb 2023
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Chopin Etudes
Classica - Pubblicato da Universal Music Ltd. il 12 ott 2004
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2009 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition: Final Round - Yeol Eum Son
Classica - Pubblicato da Van Cliburn Foundation il 22 giu 2009
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Schumann, Reinecke, Schubert
Classica - Pubblicato da Universal Music Ltd. il 9 mag 2022
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13th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition: Silver Medalist
Classica - Pubblicato da harmonia mundi il 8 dic 2009
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Kreisler: Liebesleid (from Alt-Wiener Tanzweisen)
Classica - Pubblicato da Naïve, a Label of Believe Group il 9 feb 2024
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Korngold: Scene in the Garden (from Much Ado About Nothing) (Version for Violin and Piano by Erich Wolfgang Korngold)
Classica - Pubblicato da Naïve, a Label of Believe Group il 19 gen 2024
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2009 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition: Semifinal Round - Yeol Eum Son
Classica - Pubblicato da Van Cliburn Foundation il 22 giu 2009
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2009 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition: Preliminary Round - Yeol Eum Son
Classica - Pubblicato da Van Cliburn Foundation il 22 giu 2009
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Schumann, Reinecke, Schubert
Classica - Pubblicato da Universal Music Ltd. il 9 mag 2022
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo