Sunwoo Yekwon to hold piano recital

Sunwoo Yekwon

Pianist Sunwoo Yekwon will hold a solo recital on March 11 at the LTI Art Center in Seongnam, Gyeonggi Province.

Sunwoo will begin the program with Russian composer and pianist Sergei Prokofiev's Piano Sonata No. 6, Op. 82.

Following the Prokofiev, Sunwoo will perform Franz Schubert's Impromptu Op. 142, No. 3 in B

major, D. 935 and Piano Sonata No. 19 in C minor, D. 958. The first piece is more romantic and the second more lonely, depicting Schubert's struggle with illness.

Sunwoo rose to fame after a couple of consecutive wins at international piano competitions. In 2014, he was the first Korean to win the Vendome Prize at the Verbier Festival and the first Korean to win the prestigious International German Piano Award in 2015.

He made his New York debut at Carnegie Hall in 2008 and has performed at the Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall with conductor Itzhak Perlman and the Juilliard Orchestra. He has also collaborated with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and the National Orchestra of Belgium.

Tickets are 30,000 won. For more information, call (031)779-1504.