Pianist Yeol Eum Son makes her much anticipated return to Australia and New Zealand in February and March. On 22 February, she returns to the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra to perform Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor, K. 491 with Chief Conductor Giordano Bellincampi. She then returns to the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra on 1 March, performing Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30 with conductor Eivind Aadland. She will also perform the Rachmaninov for her West Australian Symphony Orchestra debut, with conductor Asher Fisch, on 8 and 9 March.
Yeol Eum then returns to Australia in June for recitals at the Adelaide International Piano Series (2 June) and at the Melbourne Recital Centre (4 June), performing works by Bizet, Czerny, Liszt, Alkan and Beethoven.
Poetic elegance, an innate feeling for expressive nuance and the power to project bold, dramatic contrasts are among the arresting attributes of Yeol Eum Son’s pianism. Her refined artistry rises from breathtaking technical control and a profound empathy for the emotional temper of the works within her strikingly wide repertoire. She is driven above all by her natural curiosity to explore a multitude of musical genres and styles and the desire to reveal what she describes as the “pure essence” of everything she performs. Yeol Eum refuses to impose limits on her artistic freedom and remains determined to explore new artistic territory. Her choice of repertoire, which spans everything from the works of Bach and Mozart to those of Shchedrin and Kapustin, is guided chiefly by the quality and depth of the music.
Throughout the 2023/24 season, Yeol Eum collaborates once again with the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern at home in Germany and on tour in South Korea (Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No.3). In addition to her debut with WASO in March, she makes debuts with the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra (Chopin Piano Concerto No.2), Atlanta Symphony Orchestra (Britten Piano Concerto), Vancouver Symphony Orchestra (Mozart Piano Concerto No.20), NAC Orchestra (Prokofiev Piano Concerto No.2), and Tenerife Symphony Orchestra (Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No.3). Yeol Eum also makes recital debuts at the Singapore International Piano Festival, International Piano Festival of Oeiras, Portugal, Risør Chamber Music Festival, Mänttä Music Festival, and returns to Duszniki International Chopin Piano Festival.
AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND ORCHESTRAL PERFORMANCES
22 FEBRUARY – AUCKLAND PHILHARMONA ORCHESTRA
Giordano Bellincampi, conductor
Programme:
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor, K. 491
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1 MARCH – TASMANIAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Eivind Aadland, conductor
Programme:
Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30
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8 & 9 MARCH – WEST AUSTRALIAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Asher Fisch, conductor
Programme:
Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30
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AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND RECITALS
2 JUNE – ADELIADE INTERNATIONAL PIANO SERIES
Programme:
Bizet, Georges: Variations Chromatiques
Czerny: Variations on Pierre Rode’s Ricordanza
Liszt, Franz: ‘Ricordanza’ from the Transcendental Etudes
Alkan, Charles-Valentin: Variations on a Theme of Steibelt
Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 29 in B flat Major, “Hammerklavier”, Op. 106
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4 JUNE – MELBOURNE RECITAL CENTRE
Programme:
Bizet: Variations Chromatiques
Czerny: Variations on Pierre Rode’s Ricordanza
Liszt: ‘Ricordanza’ from the Transcendental Etudes
Alkan: Variations on a Theme of Steibelt
Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 29 in B flat Major, “Hammerklavier”, Op. 106
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