Kyuhee Park,Guitar

Kyuhee Park was born in Incheon city, South Korea, in 1985. She started to study guitar when she was 3 years old. 

She won the 1st prize in “youth” of the National Korean Guitar Competition at 9 years old. In 2004, she started to study in the Tokyo College of Music. She participated in an opera-tour which was conducted by Maestro Seiji Ozawa. 

She was taught by Shin-ichi Fukuda and Kiyoshi Shomura who are Japanese leading classical guitarists. And now she is studying in Vienna Music University with Alvaro Pierri.

 

She has got many prizes in various competitions as below;

2005 Korean guitar music conpetition 1st prize.

2007 Heinsberg international guitar competition 1st prize and audience prize

2008 Printemps de la Guitare international competition 1st prize 

     (She is the 1st prize winner as female and also as Asian in this competition history)

Koblenz international guitar competition 2nd prize

2010 Agustin Barrios International Guitar Competition 1st prize

2012 Alhambra International Guitar Competition 1st prize and audience prize

 

She took part in the “Guitar Festa” in Hakuju Hall, Tokyo, 2009. Her performance was highly acclaimed and she gathered broad attention.

She made her CD debut with “Sueno” from FONTEC in Japan in 2010 and released “Sonata Noir” in 2012. Both CDs have highly acclaimed and moreover the sales are extraordinary among the classical guitar world. 

In August, 2012, she made new career started from NIPPON COLUMBIA CO.,LTD. and release new CD.

 In October, She took part in the Concert in Wail hall in Carnegie hall in NY, USA. 

 

HP：http://www.concert.co.jp/artist/kyu_hee_park/

CD"Saudade": http://columbia.jp/kyuhee/index.html

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