Clara-Jumi Kang & Sunwook Kim
Sound Korea 2022
Korean violinist Clara-Jumi Kang and pianist Sunwook Kim, recognised on the world classical music stage, will come back to Brussels this autumn. They boast a strong partnership and regularly perform chamber music together in Europe and other countries.
“…supremely sophisticated, sparklingly balanced, intensely beautifully toned, meticulous and honest” KölnerStadt-Anzeiger
An artist of impeccable elegance and poise, Clara-Jumi Kang has carved an international career performing with the leading orchestras and conductors across Asia and Europe. Winner of the 2010 Indianapolis International Violin Competition, Kang’s other accolades include 1st prizes at the Seoul Violin Competition (2009) and the Sendai Violin Competition (2010). Having made her concerto debut at the age of five with the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra, Kang has since performed with leading European orchestras including the Leipzig Gewandhaus, Cologne Chamber Orchestra, Kremerata Baltica, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Orchestre National de Belgique and the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande.
“The swell of suspended harmonies was perfectly controlled, the chords perfectly struck and voiced, and Kim always kept the sense of restless searching at just the right level of intensity” Dundee Courier
Sunwook Kim came to international recognition when he won the prestigious Leeds International Piano Competition in 2006, aged just 18, becoming the competition’s youngest winner for 40 years, as well as its first Asian winner. Since then, he has established a reputation as one of the finest pianists of his generation, appearing as a concerto soloist in the subscription series of some of the world’s leading orchestras including the London Symphony Orchestra, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Staatskapelle Dresden, Chicago Symphony, Berlin Radio Symphony, NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester and the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra for his BBC Proms debut in Summer 2014.
In the context of SOUND KOREA 2022
Korean Cultural Center, Korean Culture and Information Service (KOCIS), Flagey
