He already belongs to the elite of pianists of the new generation! Great teachers such as Prof. E. Virsaladze, A. Jasinski, L. Howard, Y. Kaplinsky and A. Schiff have discovered and formed his talent!

A talent in the next Generation of concert pianists! Latest Achievement: Winner of the prestigious International Beethoven Competition.

Praised by critics:
“… physical power … she amazes the audience with her almost vivid clarity, emotional and intellectual dimensions of the respective compositions tangible…”

He is established as one of the most promising pianists of his generation. Praised by critics as “intense, strong and natural, with an impressive creativity”. Lang Lang said about his Liszt’s performance:  “In such a technical work, he does not deprive musicality. This is a rarity!”.

Praised by critics as an “artist already of enormous prowess”  with “lots of clarity, confidence, and wisdom”. Latest achievement: Winner of the 2017 Vendome Prize Verbier, 2nd Prize 2017 International Beethoven Competition.

Latest achievement: 2017 first Korean pianist winning 1st prize at the Munich ARD International Music Competition in Germany: Powerfull, imeccable technic with mature and sincere musical sense.

Chief Conductor of the
Baden-Baden Philharmonic Orchestra, since 2007, Bulgaria

Conductor, Designated Music Director of the Bogotá Philharmonic, General Music Director of the Opera and the Staatskapelle Halle-Saale, Music Director of the Colorado Springs Philharmonic, Spain

Founder and Editor-in-Chief of the Music Magazine Pizzicato, President of the Jury of the International Classical Music Awards ICMA, Luxembourg

Pianist, Conductor, Ambassador of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Holder of the Grand Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, Chief Conductor of the Philharmonie of the Nations, Germany

Artistic Director and Chief Conductor of the Russian Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra St. Petersburg, Russia

Principal Conductor of the Kuopio Symphony Orchestra, Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of the Borusan Philharmonic Orchestra, Austria

2008-2019, Conductor and Artistic Director of the Cologne Chamber Orchestra and Chief Conductor of the Gwangju Symphony Orchestra, Germany

Pianist, Professor for Piano at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Mannheim, at the École Normale de Musique de Paris Alfred Cortot, at the International Piano Academy Brescia and Member of Lang Lang International Music Foundation, Germany

Winner of the 8th International German Pianist Award 2018 and Isang Yun International Music Competition 2016, Prizewinner of the Hastings International Piano Concerto Competition 2017, Prizewinner of the International Beethoven Competition Vienna 2017, Prizewinner of the Queen Elisabeth International Music Competition 2016, Prizewinner of the Sendai International Music Competition 2016, South Korea

Pianist, Artistic Director of the International Piano Festival Geilenkirchen, Inner Mongolia, People’s Republic of China

Pianist, Director of the Gilmore Festival and Awards, South Africa/USA

Pianist, Chair of the Piano Department at the Harbin Conservatory of Music, Vice President and Chair of the Piano Department at JiLin College of the Arts, Vice President and Director of International Affairs at the Hangzhou Liangzhu International Arts Academy, Image Ambassador of the Hong Kong Piano Music Society, Image Ambassador of China – South Korea International Arts Festival and Image Ambassador of the Beijing University Love Foundation, People’s Republic of China