Michael Reichel (ari)
Under the motto "Beflügelt - International young master pianists in concert", this year's two scholarship holders of the Elfrun Gabriel Foundation will give a varied piano recital in the Audimax of the TU Ilmenau on Wednesday, October 23. The pianists JungIn Ryuand Seonghyeon Leem will be performing in this year's "Music in the Audimax" series.
Tickets are available at the box office. Tickets go on sale at 18:30 and the concert starts at 19:30. 10€ full payer, 5€ reduced.
MinhojungminThe South Korean pianist Seonghyeon Leem made her European debut in the concert hall of the Mozarthaus in Vienna. She won the International Pro Musicis Award 2023 and was invited to perform in the 2023/24 season at the Salle Cortot in Paris, the Arsenal in Metz, the Lisztomanias Festival in Châteauroux and the Théâtre Saint Bonnet in Bourges, at the Grieg Begegnungsstätte, the Robert-und-Clara-Schumann-Haus and the Gohliser Schlösschen in Leipzig. Seonghyeon Leem performed at the Jose Races Gala, which was broadcast live on MDR television. As a highlight of the 2022/23 season, she won first prize at the 5th Istanbul Orchestra' Sion International Piano Competition. She performed Beethoven's Triple Concerto with the Mozarteum University Symphony Orchestra and conductor Ion Marin at the Haus für Mozart at the Salzburg Festival. She played Ravel's Piano Concerto with the Southwest German Philharmonic Orchestra and conductor Hankyeol Yoon. In June 2023, she performed at the 25th anniversary concert of the Musica Mundi Festival at the Palais de Beaux Arts in Brussels.
Seonghyeon Leem has performed concert tours in Germany, France, Austria, Great Britain, Belgium, Spain, Hungary, Poland, Turkey, China and South Korea.
On the various tours she has worked with Sławomir Chrzanowski and the Zabrze Philharmonic Orchestra, Alexander Drčar and the Bad Reichenhall Philharmonic Orchestra, Ja-Kyung Year and the Gunpo Prime Philharmonic Orchestra as well as Dong-Su Kim and the Sunhwa Wind Orchestra.
Seonghyeon Leem received a bachelor's degree with honors from Seoul National University, where she studied with Prof. Aviram Reichert. She then studied with Prof. Jacques Rouvier at the Mozarteum University Salzburg, where she received her master's and postgraduate degrees. Seonghyeon is currently studying at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Leipzig in the master class of Prof. Christian A. Pohl.
Seonghyeon Leem has taken part in master classes with Paul Badura-Skoda, Menahem Pressler, Arie Vardi, Elisabeth Leonskaja and Maxim Vengerov. Important mentors for her are Paul Gulda and Eunju Heo.
In June 2023, she was selected as a scholarship holder in the competition for the Elfrun Gabriel Scholarship. She will play numerous piano recitals in central Germany during the scholarship period. Further information: https: //seonghyeonleem.com/
privatJungIn Ryu was born in South Korea in 1998. She obtained a bachelor's degree there with top marks under Professor Hyo-sun Lim. Since October 2022, she has been enrolled at the Leipzig University of Music and Performing Arts "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" as a master class student with Prof. Jacques Amonn. In addition to numerous other prizes, JungIn Ryu won 1st prize at the VIMA2023 International Piano Competition in London. In 2020 and 2021, she won first place twice at the Kyung Hee University Scholarship Competition and performed with the Kyung Hee University Orchestra. Due to her excellent study results, JungIn Ryu received scholarships from Kyung Hee University, a scholarship from the In-ha Han Foundation and the Korea Scholarship Foundation.
In 2022, JungIn Ryu played as part of the series "Young Master Pianists of the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Leipzig University of Music and Theater" in Bayreuth and in 2023 at the "Klangpause" in the Old Town Hall Leipzig as well as in the gala concert in the Great Hall of the Leipzig University of Music. In addition, she consolidated her position as an artist in Korea through various concerts, including the "Debut Concert" at the Seol Arts Center and her first recital at the Kumho Art Hall in Gwangju.
She is currently training young artists to form an art group called "Fantasia", which aims to promote classical music performance and cultural arts education in Korea.
In June 2023, JungIn Ryu was selected in the competition for a scholarship from the Elfrun Gabriel Foundation, which is linked to numerous piano recitals in central Germany.
JungIn Ryu
Robert Schumann: Symphonic Etudes op. 13
Theme. Andante Etude I. Un poco più vivo Variation I Etude II. Espressivo (Marcato il canto) Etude III. Vivace Etude IV. - Etude V. Scherzando Variation IV Etude VI. Agitato (con gran bravura) Etude VII. Allegro molto (sempre brillante) Variation II Variation V Etude VIII. Sempre marcatissimo Etude IX. Presto possibile Etude X. Sempre con energia Etude XI. Con espressione Etude XII. Allegro brillante
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Seonghyeon Leem
Claude Debussy: Nocturne L. 82
Sergei Rachmaninoff: Piano Sonata No. 2 in B flat minor op. 36
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