Twenty year old Korean pianist Sae Yoon Chon started playing the piano at age of six. He continued studying at Yewon Art School and the Seoul Art High School. His teachers included Professor Hyoung-Joon Chang and Ms. Sae-Kyung Park. Currently Sae Yoon continues his studies at the Glenn Gould School of the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, Canada as a pupil of Professors John O’Conor and James Anagnoson.
Sae Yoon has been awarded numerous prizes in prestigious piano competitions in Korea, including the Steinway Piano Competition, the Korea Liszt Competition, and the Seoul Art High School Competition. He has also participated in other international piano competitions during the past three years, in which he earned 3rd Prize at the Cooper International Piano Competition in Oberlin, Ohio; 4th Prize at the Hilton Head International Piano Competition for Young Artists, First Prize and the Best Classical Work Player award in the Hanoi International Piano Competition, 2nd Prize in the Isidor Bajic Memorial Piano Competition in Novisad, Serbia, and 3rd Prize in the International Festival and Competition for Young Pianists “Astana Piano Passion”.
Sae Yoon has been presented in many concerts in South Korea and the United States. He has performed with the Cleveland Orchestra, the Astana Symphony Orchestra, the Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra and the Hanoi Philharmonic Orchestra, and has collaborated with conductors Jahja Ling, Erzhan Dautov, and Jakyung Year. He has also participated in various master classes in Korea, Canada, Germany, Ireland, and the USA. Among his many recital appearances was the Prodigy Recital held by the Kumho Asiana Cultural Foundation, the most important and highly competitive event in Korea.
Repertoire
Round I
Beethoven Sonata No. 6 in F major, Op. 10, No. 2
Liszt Étude d’exécution transcendante No. 4 in D minor, S. 139
Dutilleux Choral et variations from Sonata No. 1
Round II
Prokofiev Sonata No. 8 in B-flat major, Op. 84
Round III
Brahms Sonata No. 3 in F minor, Op. 5
Vine Five Bagatelles (1994)
Round IV
Beethoven Concerto No. 5 in E-flat major, Op. 73