Among the most interesting emerging talents, the pianist Sun Hee You is gathering successes and approval both from the public and from the juries of the competitions. In particular, she has been praised for her passion at the keyboard, based on a profound artistic and professional solidity.
Ever since her debut with Seoul’s Yangeum Orchestra in Beethoven’s Second Concerto, she has succeeded in transforming the gifts of an enfant prodige into the expressive and technical maturity of a complete artist. She has played with many orchestras, among which the Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma, the Orchestra Sinfonica Abbruzzese, the Kaunas Symphony Orchestra and the Stara Zagora Orchestra, playing under the conduction of Julian Kovachev, Pavel Berman, Rui Massena, Francesco Ivan Ciampa e Yun Ho Chu. After obtaining numerous victories in several national competitions she was awarded the first prize at the Vanna Spadafora International Competition (Rome) and the Città di Avezzano International Competition, where she was also given the prize of the public.
Born in Seoul, Sun Hee You has studied at the famous Yewon School, to then move to Italy where she obtained the Diploma from the Conservatorio Santa Cecilia (Rome); she went on to study with Lazar Berman and Valentina Berman at the Accademia musicale di Firenze and with Rocco Filippini for Chamber music. She has also had to opportunity to work with famous artists such as Bruno Canino, Oxana Yablonskaya, Paul Badura-Skoda and Boris Petrushansky. Her repertoire goes from the Baroque Period to the Twentieth Century; for Naxos she has recorded A notte alta, La Partita, and Scarlattiana, for piano and orchestra by Alfredo Casella.
Her new recording of Nikolai Kapustin’s music will be released for the british label Piano-Classics in october 2015.
