Sunwook Kim makes European conducting debut with Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

This week Sunwook Kim makes his European conducting debut with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Sunwook will conduct the orchestra in three performances which pairs Beethoven’s Symphony No.7 and Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 5 ‘Emperor’ with Sunwook play-directing the latter from the piano. Sunwook made his international conducting debut in January this year with the KBS Symphony, conducting Beethoven’s Symphony No.7 and...

Jun 04, 2021

Sunwook Kim debuts with the Berliner Philharmoniker

This weekend Sunwook Kim makes his debut with the Berliner Philharmoniker conducted by Sakari Oramo. Performing Unsuk Chin’s Piano Concerto – a work which Sunwook previously recorded with Myung-Whun Chung and the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra – the concert will see a live audience return to the Philharmonie for the first of eight trial concerts with a half capacity audience. Also marking the...

Sep 20, 2018

Sunwook Kim makes American debut

This week, pianist Sunwook Kimmakes his American Concerto debut with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra in two performances of Dvorak’s Piano Concerto in G Minor, conducted by fellow Askonas Holt artist, Karina Canellakis. Later this season, Sunwook will also make his debut with the Nagoya Philharmonic Orchestra, return to the BBC Philharmonic and Bournemouth Symphony orchestras as well as embark on a major tour of Korea,...

Nov 24, 2017

Nominations announced for International Classical Music Awards 2018

Sunwook Kim has been nominated for the 2018 International Classical Music Awards in the SOLO INSTRUMENT for his Beethoven: Piano Sonatas (Pathétique, Moonlight, Appassionata) album, as announced last Thursday. Recognising “creativity, imagination in choice of repertoire and artistic excellence”, the awards are judged by a jury comprising music critics from a range of European magazines and radio stations. The winners will be...

Apr 13, 2017

Sunwook Kim returns to The Hallé to perform Brahms

Sunwook Kim makes a welcome return to Manchester next week where he joins the long standing partnership of the Hallé Orchestra and their principal conductor, Sir Mark Elder. Sunwook has enjoyed a very successful collaboration with the orchestra and Sir Mark over the past 10 years, since he first played with them in the finals of the Leeds Piano Competition in 2006;...

Feb 23, 2016

Competition

„Passion, and grand passions, alone can inspire the soul to achieve great things“ Diderot This Friday, Accentus Music will release Sunwook’s new album, with César Franck’s Prélude, Choral et Fugue of 1884 and Brahms’s Third Piano Sonata in F minor op.5 of 1853. Here you can win one of 3 signed copies of his new album by entering this competition: “Post a picture on Facebook or Twitter featuring...