Pianist HaeSun Paik has been hailed as a “sensitive and thinking musician with stunning virtuosity” (Los Angeles Times), and a “big and individual personality” (New York Times) whose performances are “a wonder — elastic, mercurial, charged with meaning, surprising” (Boston Globe) and “a rare example of technique actually serving both idea and feeling, head and heart” (Musical America). Having won top prizes at international piano competitions including the Queen Elisabeth, Leeds, William Kapell, and the Tchaikovsky, Ms. Paik has performed around the world in solo recitals, concerti with orchestra, and as a chamber musician.
Ms. Paik has appeared as a soloist under the batons of Mikhail Pletnev, Sir Simon Rattle, Vassily Sinaisky, Dmitri Kitaenko, Stanislav Skrowaczewski, and Myung-Whun Chung, to name a few. She has performed with the Boston, National, London, KBS, NHK, Belgian National, and City of Birmingham Symphonies; the Munich, Radio France, Tokyo, Warsaw, and Moscow Philharmonic Orchestras; and the Russian National Orchestra, among others.
Ms. Paik has frequently performed at prestigious venues across the United States, including Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, and Jordan Hall in Boston. Her recent international tours have taken her to major concert halls worldwide, such as the Berlin Philharmonic Hall and Vienna's Musikverein. A superb collaborator, Ms. Paik has performed with many distinguished musicians, including cellists Anner Bylsma, Mischa Maisky, Myung-wha Chung, violist Nobuko Imai, clarinetist Richard Stoltzman, the Borromeo String Quartet, and the Jerusalem Quartet.
Ms. Paik recently completed a highly successful seven-city concert tour with the Belgian National Orchestra, encompassing performances in both Belgium and Korea. Additionally, she has performed all five Beethoven Concerti and the Triple Concerto with the New York Classical Players, and has also presented both Brahms Concerti in a single concert. She has recorded the complete works by Beethoven for cello and piano with Laurence Lesser, which have been released by Bridge Records. Her debut and subsequent solo recordings are available on the EMI label.
HaeSun will perform works by Beethoven, Juri Seo, Bartok, and Schumann. Program to be confirmed.
Presented by the Department of Music. Made possible by Jean Sterne '32.
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