Yoonjung Han
South Korean musician
Yoonjung "Yoonie" Han (born January 12, 1985, in South Korea) is a South Korean-born American classical pianist.
Education
Principal teachers: Robert McDonald, Eleanor Sokoloff, Eduardus Halim, Jean Saulnier, Victoria Mushkatkol
Teaching
Academic positions:
Assistant professor, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong (2018–present)
Assistant professor, Bilkent University, Turkey (2015–2018)
Piano faculty, Lambda School of Music and Fine Arts, Canada, (2010–2011)
University masterclasses and seminars:
Harvard University
Baruch College, The City University of New York
Stony Brook University, State University of New York
California State University Sacramento
San Francisco Conservatory
New York University
Amalfi Coast Music Festival
AmiCa Piano Festival
Boston University
New Jersey City University
Emory University
San Francisco State University
Shorter University
College of William and Mary
Lunigiana International Music Festival
Music Fest Perugia
University of North Florida
Western New Mexico University
Washington International Piano Competition
University of North Dakota
Georgia SouthWestern State University
Oxford College, Emory University
University of Arkansas
Career
Han's first competitive performance was at age 13, in the Seoul Philharmonic Concerto competition, which she won. This was followed by many more such engagements. In 2010, music critic Jon Sobel wrote that she would likely be among the premier young pianists of the decade, "one of those natural-born performers who become one with the instrument—not trying to surmount it, as a more showy pianist might, but rather losing herself in the music like an actor merging magnetically with a role." Han has also enjoyed special sponsorships from Roche Bobois, the Paris-based international retailer of fine furniture; Breguet, France's leading maker of luxury timepieces, and Dolce & Gabbana, the Italian fashion house, which has supplied gowns for her concerts.
Han's most recent album, Hollywood Romance (2020), featuring classical piano pieces from Hollywood Golden Age films, was released on Universal Music Group label. Han recorded three albums on the Steinway & Sons label. The first album, Love and Longing (2014) was quickly raised on the Classical Billboard chart and was nominated as "Album of the Week" on WQXR. Her second album with Steinway & Sons was released in 2017, Enrique Granados' complete Goyescas to mark the 150th anniversary of the composer's birth. The album features Black Duchess of Alba of Francisco Goya. Her third album with Steinway & Sons presents the complete Le Rossignol Éperdu: 53 Piano Poems (2019) by Reynaldo Hahn. Her other albums include Debut (2013) on Concert Artists Guild label, Gloriosa Trio (2019) on the Centaur Records label, and Liszt on Steinway (2017), Prokofiev on Steinway (2017), and Steinway Piano Chilling (2017) on the Steinway & Sons label.
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