Sun 27 Sep 2026, 11.30am: Hyeyoon Park (violin) With Juho Pohjonen (piano) Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827): Violin Sonata No. 5 in F Op. 24 ‘Spring’ Benjamin Britten (1913-1976): Suite Op. 6: IV. Lullaby | II. March | V. Waltz Edvard Grieg (1843-1907): Violin Sonata No. 3 in C minor Op. 45 Hyeyoon Park’s debut concerto … [Read More]
Musician: Yeol Eum Son
Korean soloists at the 2026 BBC Proms
Three Korean soloists perform concertos at this year’s Proms, including Yunchan Lim who opens the festival. 17 July (First Night): Yunchan Lim (piano) Dalia Stasevska and massed BBC forces launch the 2026 season with an American accent. The widescreen vision of Copland’s Fanfare for the Common Man zooms in to teeming city streets in Gershwin’s … [Read More]
Yeol Eum Son plays Bartok and Finzi at the Barbican
A magical bird, a dream of England, and the sheer magic of pianist Yeol Eum Son, as Sakari Oramo and the BBC Symphony Orchestra bring a blaze of colour to the Barbican. A monsoon downpour and a cascade of flame: elemental forces are in play as Sakari Oramo and the BBC Symphony Orchestra continue their … [Read More]
Barbican 25/26 classical season to include Seong-Jin Cho artist portrait, plus Yeol Eum Son and Clara-Jumi Kang
For those keen to lock down their diary commitments well in advance, the Barbican has just announced its September 2025 – July 2026 classical music season. For Seong-jin Cho fans, you have four opportunities to see him – including two performances of Chopin’s 2nd piano concerto – in what is billed as an Artist Portrait. … [Read More]
Korean performers at the 2023 Edinburgh International Festival
Five performance programmes from Korea to celebrate 140 years of diplomatic relations with the UK: three of chamber and solo instrumental music, plus the KBS Symphony Orchestra and the National Changgeuk Company. 8 August: Novus String Quartet The Queen’s Hall, 11:00am Tickets from £13.50 | Buy tickets here Schubert String Quartet in C minor D703 ‘Quartettsatz’ … [Read More]
Aurora Orchestra with Yeol Eum Son at Kings Place CANCELLED
Cancelled because of the health emergency. Yeol Eum Son, director of the PyeongChang Music Festival, plays Mozart with the Aurora Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra with Yeol Eum Son Earthly Rituals: Nature Unwrapped / Mozart’s Piano / Beethoven 250 Saturday 28 March 2020, 7pm Hall One | King’s Place | 90 York Way | Kings Cross | … [Read More]
Yeol Eum Son plays Mozart at the Proms
The first of three Proms this year featuring Korean performers: Prom 7: Schumann, Schoenberg, Ben-Haim and Mozart 19:30 Tue 23 Jul 2019 Royal Albert Hall Tickets £7.50 to £41 (plus booking fee) | Book tickets Yeol Eum Son: piano BBC Philharmonic Omer Meir Wellber: conductor Programme Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 15 in B … [Read More]
Yeol Eum Son plays Mozart at King’s Place + pre-concert talk
Coming up this Friday: Aurora Orchestra with Yeol Eum Son: Dark with Excessive Bright Date & time: Fri 5 Apr – 7pm Hall One | Kings Place | 90 York Way | London N1 9AGe Tickets £49.50-£29.50 + £3 booking fee | Book tickets Edward Elgar: Serenade for Strings in E minor, Op. 20 WA … [Read More]
Yeol Eum Son plays Mozart with ASMF at Cadogan Hall
Two Mozart concerti at the Cadogan Hall: Yeol Eum Son and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields Cadogan Hall | 5 Sloane Terrace | London SW1X 9DQ Friday 20 April 2018, 7.30pm Tickets from £10 | Cadogan Hall Box Office: +44 (0)20 7730 4500 Book online Described as “marvellous, intense and boundlessly virtuosic”, … [Read More]
Korean performances at the City of London Festival
This year’s City of London Festival has a Korean focus. And although most of the performances in the festival are of Western classical music, there is a Korean Hamlet from Yohangza Theatre Company (who do a wonderful Midsummer Night’s Dream), fusion music from Ensemble Sinawi and contemporary and street dance too. Sunwook Kim (piano) Wednesday … [Read More]
Korean musicians at the Tchaikovsky competition
Korea does well at the Tchaikovsky competition. Voice Results: Female: 1st Prize: Sun Young Seo (South Korea); Male: 1st Prize: Jong Min Park (South Korea). Piano results: 1st Prize: Daniil Trifonov (Russia); 2nd Prize: Yeol Eum Son (South Korea); 3rd Prize: Seong Jin Cho (South Korea). On BBC Radio 3 Music Matters on 2 July … [Read More]









