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Jong Hai Park, born 17 October 1990 in Seoul in the Republic of Korea, began his music education at the age of six. He studied at the Neighborhood Music School and the Hartt School in the USA, and at the Yewon Music School and Arts High School in Seoul. In 2011/12 he was a student of Prof. Chong Mo Kang at the Korean National University of Arts (KNUA). In 2012 he continued his studies in Germany with Prof. Arie Vardi at the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media.
Jong Hai has won numerous prizes at national and international competitions, such as at the 4th Nagoya International Music Competition (2nd prize), an Award from the Japan Academy of Chamber Music in 2008, and the 2nd Hong Kong International Piano Competition in 2008 (2nd prize). He also won 2nd prize and special awards at the 8th Dublin International Piano Competition in 2009. In the year 2010 he was a laureate in Brussels at the Queen Elisabeth International Piano Competition. He was a finalist at the Honens International Piano Competition in 2012. More recently, he won 2nd prize at the Tromsö “Top of the world” Competition in Norway, and a Special Prize at the Cleveland International Piano Competition. In June 2018 he was awarded the 2nd Prize at the Concours Géza Anda in Zurich. As an “Artist-in-residence” of the Kumho Art Hall, he is being invited to give several concerts in Korea.
He has made frequent appearances with major orchestras and conductors such as Marin Alsop, Gerhard Markson, John Wilson, Christopher Warren-Green, Theodor Guschlbauer and Christian Zacharias, and has performed with the Nagoya Philharmonic Orchestra, the Hong Kong Chamber Orchestra, the Bucheon Philharmonic Orchestra, the National Orchestra of Belgium, the RTE National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, the KBS Symphony Orchestra, the Musikkollegium Winterthur and the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra. He also has given numerous solo recitals including at the Kumho Prodigy Concert & Rising Star Series, the Kumho Young Artist Concert Series, and at the Monnaie and l'Oratoire du Louvre in Paris. In 2015 he was invited to the Annecy Music Festival in France and the Nordland Music Festival in Norway. He now has various concerts scheduled in connection with his 2nd prize at the Concours Géza Anda in Zurich.
Franz Schubert 4 Impromptus for Piano, D.935 (Op.posth.142, excerpt)
No.3 in B-flat Major. Theme. Andante – Variations
Ludwig van Beethoven 15 Variations and fugue on a theme from "Prometheus" for Piano in E-flat Major, "Eroica Variations", Op.35
Introduzione: Allegretto vivace Tema
Variation 1-15
Fugue
I N T E R M I S S I O N
Minje Jeon Commissioned Work
Johannes Brahms 25 Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Handel for Piano in B-flat Major, Op.24
Theme (with 25 variations)
Fugue
※ Program is subject to change without prior notice with request from the artist.