Music Director/Conductor | Yip Wing-sie* |
Piano | Sunwook Kim |
Programme
Brahms | Piano Concerto No 1 in D minor, Op 15 |
Schumann | Symphony No 3 in E-flat, Op 97, “Rhenish” |
*Please note that Conductor Alexander Liebreich is not able to come to Hong Kong due to an injury from a recent accident. The concert will now be conducted by Music Director Yip Wing-sie and the programme remains unchanged.
Sunwook Kim (Piano)
・ Winner, Leeds International Piano Competition 2006
・ Has performed with top orchestras such as Concertgebouw Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Berlin Radio Symphony, BBC Philharmonic, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France and conductors including Vladimir Ashkenazy, Myung-Whun Chung, Daniel Harding and Paavo Järvi
・ Festival appearances included BBC Proms, Beethovenfest Bonn, Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, La Roque d’Anthéron
・ Has given recitals at prestigious venues including the Queen Elizabeth Hall and Wigmore Hall in London, Salle Pleyel in Paris, Beethoven-Haus Bonn and Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires
“Great naturalness…infectious energy.”
Gramophone
“Poetic, intelligent and equally adept with the passages of gentle rain as those of rolling thunder.”
The Guardian
“Playing with absorbing concentration and nuance.”
The Times
Featured artists:
Yip Wing-sie
(Music Director Emeritus)
Sunwook Kim
(Piano)