Yeol Eum Son
KoreaAge 23
Silver Medal
Steven De Groote Memorial Award for the Best Performances of Chamber Music
"Son should have no trouble building a career. She's got the fingers and the personality - and, at least here, the haut-est couture."
– Scott Cantrell, Dallas Morning News
"Her playing was both dynamic and personal.... that, together with her charming personality and demeanor, made for a wonderful evening for all in the audience, both adults and the many young emerging pianists that were present." – Texas A&M Performance Series
At the age of twenty-three, Yeol Eum Son's highly versatile and accomplished performances earned her a silver medal at the Thirteenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. Included in her prize package were three years of concert tours in the United States and a recording produced by harmonia mundi usa. Already considered among the most important artists of her generation in South Korea, she has performed there with almost every notable orchestra, and has been a featured soloist with the New York Philharmonic on several occasions, most recently as part of the orchestra's historic visit to Seoul ... read full bio
PRELIMINARY RECITAL
Haydn Sonata in C major, Hob. XVI:48
Schumann Fantasiestücke, Op. 12
Liszt Spanish Rhapsody
SEMIFINAL RECITAL
Debussy Preludes, Book I
Le vent dans la plaine
Les sons et les parfums tournent dans l’air du soir
Les collines d’Anacapri
Des pas sur la niege
Ce qu’a vu le vent d’Ouest
La fille aux cheveux de lin
Godowsky Symphonic Metamorphosis on Themes from Die Fledermaus
by J. Strauss II
Bates White Lies for Lomax
Barber Sonata for Piano, Op. 26
SEMIFINAL CHAMBER
Brahms Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 34
FINAL RECITAL
Bach-Petri Sheep May Safely Graze
Schubert Impromptu in B-flat major, D. 935, No. 3
Impromptu in F minor, D. 935, No. 4
Beethoven Sonata in C minor, Op. 111
FINAL CONCERTI
Chopin Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor, Op. 21
Prokofiev Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 16
– Scott Cantrell, Dallas Morning News
"Her playing was both dynamic and personal.... that, together with her charming personality and demeanor, made for a wonderful evening for all in the audience, both adults and the many young emerging pianists that were present." – Texas A&M Performance Series
At the age of twenty-three, Yeol Eum Son's highly versatile and accomplished performances earned her a silver medal at the Thirteenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. Included in her prize package were three years of concert tours in the United States and a recording produced by harmonia mundi usa. Already considered among the most important artists of her generation in South Korea, she has performed there with almost every notable orchestra, and has been a featured soloist with the New York Philharmonic on several occasions, most recently as part of the orchestra's historic visit to Seoul ... read full bio
PRELIMINARY RECITAL
Haydn Sonata in C major, Hob. XVI:48
Schumann Fantasiestücke, Op. 12
Liszt Spanish Rhapsody
SEMIFINAL RECITAL
Debussy Preludes, Book I
Le vent dans la plaine
Les sons et les parfums tournent dans l’air du soir
Les collines d’Anacapri
Des pas sur la niege
Ce qu’a vu le vent d’Ouest
La fille aux cheveux de lin
Godowsky Symphonic Metamorphosis on Themes from Die Fledermaus
by J. Strauss II
Bates White Lies for Lomax
Barber Sonata for Piano, Op. 26
SEMIFINAL CHAMBER
Brahms Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 34
FINAL RECITAL
Bach-Petri Sheep May Safely Graze
Schubert Impromptu in B-flat major, D. 935, No. 3
Impromptu in F minor, D. 935, No. 4
Beethoven Sonata in C minor, Op. 111
FINAL CONCERTI
Chopin Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor, Op. 21
Prokofiev Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 16
