Yeol Eum Son closes her wildly successful 2024 with concerts in the United Kingdom, Ireland and the Netherlands.
She made her BBC Symphony Orchestra debut with conductor Antonio Mendez at London’s Barbican Centre on 6 December. She performed Prokofiev’s Second Piano Concerto, an interpretation that inspired the BBC to note that “few living pianists play it better.” She also performed the ferocious work for her November St. Louis Symphony debut with Jonathon Heyward, of which Chris King of the St. Louis American writes, “Son wore me out with her emotionally resonant and physically acrobatic performance. She was not showy, just expressive without restraint, rising off the bench to attack more vigorous parts and ending long piano lines with full arm sweeps away from the keys. …a thrilling musical performance.”
This week, on 13 December, she returns to the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland with Chief Conductor Jaime Martín, a frequent collaborator, to perform Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 2 at Dublin’s National Concert Hall. Watch her performance of the work with Eivind Aadland and Tasmanian Symphony below:
She closes 2024 with her return to Residentie Orkest, with whom she enjoys a fruitful and regular collaboration, conducted by Kwamé Ryan at Amare Concert Hall in The Hague. She will perform Rachmoninov’s Piano Concerto No. 3 on 20 – 22 December, and is certain to thrill the audience, as Limelight magazine writes that with “Yeol Eum Son’s performance of Rachmaninov’s Third Piano Concerto…wild standing ovation [is] inevitable.” Watch the concerts’ trailer below: