All posts tagged "Chopin"

  • The new album containing pianist Cho Seong-jin's award-winning performance at last year's Chopin Competition has sold out before its official release, the album's distributor said Monday.
    Pianist Cho Seong-jin’s new Chopin album sells out before release

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — The new album containing pianist Cho Seong-jin’s award-winning performance at last year’s Chopin Competition has sold out before its official release, the album’s distributor said Monday. The 21-year-old prodigy became the first South Korean...

    • Posted February 22, 2016
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  • Cho Seong-jin (Yonhap)
    Seong-Jin Cho becomes the first Korean to win Chopin Piano Competition

    WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Seong-Jin Cho of South Korea has won the career-paving 17th International Frederic Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw. In the jury’s verdict announced early Wednesday, the second prize went to Charles Richard-Hamelin of Canada...

    • Posted October 20, 2015
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  • Chung Myung-whun plays the piano during a news conference in southern Seoul on Tuesday. (Yonhap)
    Chung Myung-whun releases his first piano album at age of 60

     ”It’s mostly for my two grandchildren…to tell them who I am” By Chung Hyun-chae Chung Myung-whun is now among Asia’s most acclaimed conductors, so it’s easy to forget he began his musical career as a pianist, making...

    • Posted December 24, 2013
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