Corvallis-OSU Piano International presents South Korean Concert Pianist Yeol Eum Son in recital as part of 2021-2022 Steinway Piano Concert Series.

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Yeol Eum Son’s graceful and timeless interpretations, crystalline touch and versatile, thrilling performances have caught the attention of audiences worldwide. She is highly regarded as a brilliant virtuoso whose playing has a rare balance between enormous kinetic energy and substantial gravity. Yeol Eum performs all over the world as a recitalist and soloist with orchestras. An avid chamber musician, in 2018 Yeol Eum was appointed Artistic Director of Music in PyeongChang. Festival being responsible for programming both summer and winter editions at the Olympic site in PyeongChang.

Praised for her widely eclectic and rich concerti repertoire, ranging from Bach, all-Mozart, early German and Russian Romantic to Gershwin, Szymanowski, Ligeti and Salonen, as a soloist Yeol Eum has collaborated with major ensembles worldwide such as New York Philharmonic, Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra, Czech Philharmonic, Gürzenich-Orchester Köln, Konzerthausorchester Berlin, Dresdner Philharmoniker, Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken, Tonkunstler Orchestra at the Grafenegg Festival, Bergen Philharmonic, CBSO, Aurora Orchestra, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, KBS Symphony Orchestra, Moscow Virtuosi, St. Petersburg, Belgrade, Zagreb, Sofia Philharmonic and RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra among many others.

Yeol Eum performs with conductors such as Dmitri Kitayenko, Valery Gergiev, Vasily Petrenko, Vladimir Spivakov, Andrew Manze, Susanna Mälkki, Krzysztof Urbański, Omer Meir Wellber, Pietari Inkinen, Jonathan Nott, Mikko Franck, Nicholas Collon, Jaime Martin, Roberto González-Monjas, Joana Carneiro, Pablo González, Jun Märkl, Case Scaglione, Edo de Waart, Gergely Madaras, Ryan Bancroft, Anja Bihlmaier and Rune Bergmann.

Across 2021, Yeol Eum made concerti debuts at the Palace of Arts with the Budapest Festival Orchestra; Helsinki Music Centre with the Helsinki Philharmonic; Salle Philharmonique de Liège with Liège Philharmonic; Philharmonie de Paris debut with Orchestre National d’Île-de-France and at Madrid’s Teatro Monumental with the Spanish Radio Television Symphony Orchestra. Further notable debuts across 2021 include appearances with the Norrköping Symphony Orchestra, Szczecin Philharmonic and Württemberg Chamber Orchestra Heilbronn. Most recently Yeol Eum also returned to Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken for multiple performances under the baton of their Chief Pietari Inkinen.

Across 2022, Yeol Eum looks forward to making further European and UK debuts at the Glasgow City and Perth Concert Halls with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra; Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw and Eindhoven’s Muziekgebouw Frits Philips with Philharmonie Zuid Nederland as well as debuts with Basel and Castilla y León Symphony Orchestras. Beyond Europe, Australian audiences will have the opportunity to hear Yeol Eum live for her Australian concerti debuts with the Melbourne, Sydney and Tasmanian Symphony Orchestras. In Northern America Yeol Eum makes debuts with San Diego and Detroit Symphony Orchestras.

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