Kyoungsun Park - Sydney International Piano Competition

Background

Nationality South Korea

Date of Birth May 4, 1992

Prizes

2019 Second Prize: ISANGYUN International Music Competition (South Korea)

2017 First Prize: Japan Piano Open International Competition (Tokyo, Japan)

2018 Sixth Prize: Hastings International Piano Concerto Competition (Hastings, UK)

2018 Third Prize – Hopkinson Silver Medal and Peter Wallfisch Prize: Chappell Medal Piano Competition (London, UK)

Kyoungsun Park earned his Bachelor of Music at Seoul National University studying with Professor Hie-Yon Choi. He was awarded an ABRSM scholarship to attend the Royal College of Music in London, where, as a student of Professor Dmitri Alexeev, he received a Master of Performance with Distinction.

In 2012 Kyoungsun made his concerto debut with the Seoul National University Symphony Orchestra in the Concert Hall of the Seoul Arts Center, performing his own jazz inspired cadenza. He has performed as a soloist with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, with the Mihail Jora Philharmonic Orchestra in Bacău, in Korea with the TIMF Orchestra, the Daejeon Arts Orchestra and the Korea University Orchestra. He has participated in masterclasses with Vladimir Ashkenazy, Ian Hobson, Peter Frankl, Julian Martin, Jerome Rose and Matti Raekallio.

Kyoungsun is currently studying at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München in Germany under Professor Michael Schäfer.

Gallery

Upcoming Competition Repertoire

Preliminaries

Preliminary Round

Peter Sculthorpe: Nocturnal  

Carl Czerny: Variations on a theme by Rode in E♭ major Op.33

Ottorino Respighi: from 6 pieces for Piano

I. Valse Caressante. Tempo lento di Valzer
III. Notturno. Lento

Igor Stravinsky: Three Movements from ‘Petrushka’ 

I. Russian Dance
II. Petrushka’s Cell
III. The Shrovetide Fair

Encore:

Alexander Scriabin: from Deux Poèmes Op.32

I. Andante cantabile

Semi-Finals

Semifinal Round

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: 12 Variations on a Minuet by Fischer K.179 

Frédéric Chopin: Rondo in C minor Op.1 

Johannes Brahms: Piano Sonata No.1 in C major Op.1

I. Allegro

II. Andante

III. Scherzo. Allegro molto e con fuoco — Più mosso

IV. Finale. Allegro con fuoco

Finals

Final Round

Maurice Ravel: Pavane pour une infante défunte

Franz Liszt: Grandes études de Paganini S.141

I. Preludio
II. Andante
III. La Campanella
IV. Vivo
V.Allegretto
VI. Quasi presto

Johann Sebastian Bach: French Suite No.5 in G major BWV 816

I. Allemande

II. Courante

III. Sarabande

IV. Gavotte

V. Bourrée

VI. Loure

VII. Gigue

Modest Mussorgsky:: Pictures at an Exhibition 

[Promenade I] Allegro giusto, nel modo russico; senza allegrezza, ma poco sostenuto
I. The Gnome

[Promenade II]. Moderato commodo assai e con delicatezza

II. The Old Castle

[Promenade III]. Moderato non tanto, pesamente

III. Tuileries

IV. Oxen

[Promenade IV]. Tranquillo

V. The Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks in their Shells

VI. Samuel Goldenberg and Schmuÿle

[Promenade V] Allegro giusto, nel modo russico; poco sostenuto

VII. The Market at Limoges (The Great News)

VIII. Catacombs – With the Dead in a Dead Language

IX. The Hut on Hens’ Legs

X. The Great Gate of Kiev

Encores:

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Gigue in G major K.574

Jeonghwi Kim: from Hymn Suite

No.2 Be Thou My Vision