Uhlig Piano Duo 2014 China Tour
Performance Date
March, 2014
The Duo
Florian Uhlig is an experienced and passionate pianist from Germany, while his young but extremely talented partner Hyeyoon Park, comes from South Korea. Both of them started their stage performance and career as a professional musician at an amazingly early age. Florian Uhlig gave his first piano recital at 12, and young as Hyeyoon Park was at the age of 9, she had already made her stage debut with the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra. Both internationally acclaimed at the very early stage of their music career, their potential to amaze the world is simply beyond conception. However, it has always been a huge shame that they never got the opportunity to work with each other. And here comes the fateful turn. For the first time, the two prodigies will soon join their hands to present brilliant duo performance at the prestigious venue of Kettle Yard, Cambridge University. Also, they’ve already have further plan to work together in the coming year of 2014. It’s a great news for their audience, for classical music lovers, and for the entire music scene. The Two Partners
Hyeyoon Park
At the age of just 20, Hyeyoon Park has emerged as one of the most promising violinists of her generation. She just received the prestigious London Music Masters Award 2012-2015. Prior to that she received the London Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award 2011 and has also been awarded First Prize along with two special prizes at the 58th ARD International Music Competition 2009 in Munich; with only 17 years she becamethe youngest ever winner inthe history ofthe competition.
Hyeyoon Park made her orchestra debut at the age of nine with the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra. Since then, she has performed with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, German Symphony Orchestra Berlin, hr Symphony Orchestra Frankfurt, NDR Symphony Orchestra Hamburg, Vienna Chamber Orchestra, Symphony Orchestra of Mariinsky-Theatre St. Petersburg and the NHK Symphony Orchestra Tokyo. In spring 2010 she has been on a Japan-Tour with the RSO Stuttgart of SWR under Sir Roger Norrington.
The highlights of her upcoming concert appearances include her debuts at the Montreal Symphony Orchestra and at the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Among others she will be giving concerts with the RSO Stuttgart of SWR, Radio-symphony Orchestra Berlin and the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra Tokyo. Al ong with numerous recitals in Germany and Japan she will give her debut at London Wigmore Hall and Tonhalle Zurich.
At the invitation of Mitsuko Uchida, Hyeyoon Park gives her debut at the prestigious Marlboro Festival in summer 2013. She appears regularly as a recitalist and chamber musician at international festivals such as Schleswig-Holstein, Rheingau, Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Musical Olympus and Les Violons de la Paix. She has performed with Gidon Kremer, Andras Schiff, Yuri Bashmet, Lars Vogt, Daniel Hope, Alban Gerhardt, Antje Weithaas and Jan Vogler.
Her exceptional talent has been demonstrated by other numerous national and international prizes. At the age of six, she was awarded the Grand Prize at the Hankookilbo Competition in Korea. In2007, she won the first prize at the 5th International Louis Spohr Competition in Weimar, Germany along with the Best Interpretation of Paganini Caprice Prize. She additionall y received the Prince of Hesse prize from Kronberg Violin Masterclasses 2009.
Born in 1992 in Seoul, South Korea, Hyeyoon Park startedto play the violin at the age of four and beganto study at the Pre-College of Korean National University of Arts two years later. From 2003, she studied with Piotr Milewski inthe Precollege of College-Conservatory of Music of the University of Cincinnati in the U.S., and since 2006, she has studied at the Hochschule fuer Musik "Hanns Eisler" with Antje Weithaas in Berlin, Germany. From winter semester 2010, Hyeyoon Park is studying as a Young Soloist at Kronberg Academy with Christian Tetzlaff. These studies are funded by the Nikolas Gruber Stipendium. She has taken master classes with Gidon Kremer, Ivry Gitlis, Zakhar Bron and Thomas Brandis.
Since 2008, Hyeyoon Park plays the Lorenzo Storioni violin (Cremona, 1781) on kind loan from the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben.
Press Reviews
"Uhlig emphasises the tensions of "Faschingsschwank aus Wien" without balancing the ups and downs, keeping a strong hand with an attention to details. Those are the kinds of contradictions he loves.”
“You have winners, and you have future stars. Hyeyoon Park is among the latter, the discovery of this year’s competition.”
Florian Uhlig
Florian Uhlig’s musical personality ranges between introversion and emphasis, his playing is marked by curiosity for all facets of music, passion informs his activities in whatever is related to musical pianistic expression and is reflected in many different forms. The mental restlessness, the serious curiosity to get to the bottom of things, is Florian Uhlig’s essential talent, along with and prior to his effortless virtuosity; his activity and creativity are driven by the desire to trace the interrelations of the individual works with their historic and current reality. His repertoire ranges from the Baroque to the present, but contains a good deal more than merely the well-known “war-horses” of the literature.
Florian Uhlig is active wherever composers formulate something of interest, where the handicraft of playing piano can and must transform itself into feelings and meaning. Thinking and playing acocording to set patterns does not stand a chance. When putting together recital programs, he permits himself eccentricities, enthusiastically let himself get carried away, casts the familiar together with the unfamiliar and penetrates to the core of the music with an always reliable sense of style, affording the delight of an ingenious musical discourse.
Florian Uhlig was born in Dusseldorf and gave his first piano recital at the age of twelve. He studied in London with Peter Feuchtwanger and continued his study at the Royal College of Music and the Royal Academy of Music in London, where he now lives, as well as in Berlin.
Florian Uhlig’s orchestra debut was at the Barbican in London in 1997. Since then, his busy concert schedule has taken him to major concert stages in Berlin, Brussels, Caracas, Dresden, Hong Kong, Istanbul, Cape Town, Cologne, London, Luxembourg, Munich, New York, Paris, Prague, Reykjavik, Salzburg, Seoul, Venice, Washington and Vienna.
Florian Uhlig has played concert with orchestras such as the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Dresden Philharmonic, the Munich Symphony Orchestra, the Symphony Orchestra Saarbrucken, the Stuttgart Philharmonic, the Bavarian Radio Chamber Orchestra, the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra and the Vienna Chamber Orchestra.
Only recently he made guest appearance with the Iceland Symphony Orchestra and the Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela performing Krzysztof Penderecki’s Piano Concerto conducted by the composer. Invitations to festivals led him to appear at the Beethoven Festival in Bonn, the Chamber Music Festival in Elmau Castle, the Ludwigsburg Castle Festival, the MDR Summer of Music, France Musique Paris, the Schleswigholstein Music Festival, the Schwetzingen Festival, the Vienna Festival Weeks and many more.
Along with his work as a soloist, Florian Uhlig is also a sought-after chamber musician and song pianist. He was the last partner of legendary Baritone Hermann Prey and has worked together with Mirijam Contzen, Albany Gerhardt, Franz Hawlata, Roberto Sacca and Ingolf Turban, the Consortium Classicum, the Philharmonic Quartet Berlin, as well as with actors Christoph Bantzer, Cornelia Froboess, Gudrun Langgrebe and Nina Hoger.
Since 2008 Florian Uhlig has been Artistic Director of the Johannesburg International Mozart Festival.
Florian Uhlig’s musical personality ranges between introversion and emphasis, his playing is marked by curiosity for all facets of music, passion informs his activities in whatever is related to musical pianistic expression and is reflected in many different forms. The mental restlessness, the serious curiosity to get to the bottom of things, is Florian Uhlig’s essential talent, along with and prior to his effortless virtuosity; his activity and creativity are driven by the desire to trace the interrelations of the individual works with their historic and current reality. His repertoire ranges from the Baroque to the present, but contains a good deal more than merely the well-known “war-horses” of the literature.
Florian Uhlig is active wherever composers formulate something of interest, where the handicraft of playing piano can and must transform itself into feelings and meaning. Thinking and playing acocording to set patterns does not stand a chance. When putting together recital programs, he permits himself eccentricities, enthusiastically let himself get carried away, casts the familiar together with the unfamiliar and penetrates to the core of the music with an always reliable sense of style, affording the delight of an ingenious musical discourse.
Florian Uhlig was born in Dusseldorf and gave his first piano recital at the age of twelve. He studied in London with Peter Feuchtwanger and continued his study at the Royal College of Music and the Royal Academy of Music in London, where he now lives, as well as in Berlin.
Florian Uhlig’s orchestra debut was at the Barbican in London in 1997. Since then, his busy concert schedule has taken him to major concert stages in Berlin, Brussels, Caracas, Dresden, Hong Kong, Istanbul, Cape Town, Cologne, London, Luxembourg, Munich, New York, Paris, Prague, Reykjavik, Salzburg, Seoul, Venice, Washington and Vienna.
Florian Uhlig has played concert with orchestras such as the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Dresden Philharmonic, the Munich Symphony Orchestra, the Symphony Orchestra Saarbrucken, the Stuttgart Philharmonic, the Bavarian Radio Chamber Orchestra, the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra and the Vienna Chamber Orchestra.
Only recently he made guest appearance with the Iceland Symphony Orchestra and the Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela performing Krzysztof Penderecki’s Piano Concerto conducted by the composer. Invitations to festivals led him to appear at the Beethoven Festival in Bonn, the Chamber Music Festival in Elmau Castle, the Ludwigsburg Castle Festival, the MDR Summer of Music, France Musique Paris, the Schleswigholstein Music Festival, the Schwetzingen Festival, the Vienna Festival Weeks and many more.
Along with his work as a soloist, Florian Uhlig is also a sought-after chamber musician and song pianist. He was the last partner of legendary Baritone Hermann Prey and has worked together with Mirijam Contzen, Albany Gerhardt, Franz Hawlata, Roberto Sacca and Ingolf Turban, the Consortium Classicum, the Philharmonic Quartet Berlin, as well as with actors Christoph Bantzer, Cornelia Froboess, Gudrun Langgrebe and Nina Hoger.
Since 2008 Florian Uhlig has been Artistic Director of the Johannesburg International Mozart Festival.
At the age of just 20, Hyeyoon Park has emerged as one of the most promising violinists of her generation. She just received the prestigious London Music Masters Award 2012-2015. Prior to that she received the London Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award 2011 and has also been awarded First Prize along with two special prizes at the 58th ARD International Music Competition 2009 in Munich; with only 17 years she becamethe youngest ever winner inthe history ofthe competition.
Hyeyoon Park made her orchestra debut at the age of nine with the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra. Since then, she has performed with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, German Symphony Orchestra Berlin, hr Symphony Orchestra Frankfurt, NDR Symphony Orchestra Hamburg, Vienna Chamber Orchestra, Symphony Orchestra of Mariinsky-Theatre St. Petersburg and the NHK Symphony Orchestra Tokyo. In spring 2010 she has been on a Japan-Tour with the RSO Stuttgart of SWR under Sir Roger Norrington.
The highlights of her upcoming concert appearances include her debuts at the Montreal Symphony Orchestra and at the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Among others she will be giving concerts with the RSO Stuttgart of SWR, Radio-symphony Orchestra Berlin and the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra Tokyo. Al ong with numerous recitals in Germany and Japan she will give her debut at London Wigmore Hall and Tonhalle Zurich.
At the invitation of Mitsuko Uchida, Hyeyoon Park gives her debut at the prestigious Marlboro Festival in summer 2013. She appears regularly as a recitalist and chamber musician at international festivals such as Schleswig-Holstein, Rheingau, Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Musical Olympus and Les Violons de la Paix. She has performed with Gidon Kremer, Andras Schiff, Yuri Bashmet, Lars Vogt, Daniel Hope, Alban Gerhardt, Antje Weithaas and Jan Vogler.
Her exceptional talent has been demonstrated by other numerous national and international prizes. At the age of six, she was awarded the Grand Prize at the Hankookilbo Competition in Korea. In2007, she won the first prize at the 5th International Louis Spohr Competition in Weimar, Germany along with the Best Interpretation of Paganini Caprice Prize. She additionall y received the Prince of Hesse prize from Kronberg Violin Masterclasses 2009.
Born in 1992 in Seoul, South Korea, Hyeyoon Park startedto play the violin at the age of four and beganto study at the Pre-College of Korean National University of Arts two years later. From 2003, she studied with Piotr Milewski inthe Precollege of College-Conservatory of Music of the University of Cincinnati in the U.S., and since 2006, she has studied at the Hochschule fuer Musik "Hanns Eisler" with Antje Weithaas in Berlin, Germany. From winter semester 2010, Hyeyoon Park is studying as a Young Soloist at Kronberg Academy with Christian Tetzlaff. These studies are funded by the Nikolas Gruber Stipendium. She has taken master classes with Gidon Kremer, Ivry Gitlis, Zakhar Bron and Thomas Brandis.
Since 2008, Hyeyoon Park plays the Lorenzo Storioni violin (Cremona, 1781) on kind loan from the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben.
Press Reviews
"Uhlig emphasises the tensions of "Faschingsschwank aus Wien" without balancing the ups and downs, keeping a strong hand with an attention to details. Those are the kinds of contradictions he loves.”
Werner Theurich, Pianist Florian Uhlig: Fasching bei Schumann, Der Spiegel, 1.12.2012 Pianist Florian Uhlig: Carnival with Schumann
“You have winners, and you have future stars. Hyeyoon Park is among the latter, the discovery of this year’s competition.”
Münchner Merkur
Recommended Repertoire
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J. S. Bach: Sonate für Violine und Klavier Nr. 6 G-Dur BWV 1019
R. Schumann: Violinsonate a-Moll op. 105
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A. Pärt: Spiegel im Spiegel
C. Franck: Sonate für Violine und Klavier A-Dur (1886)
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J. S. Bach: Sonate für Violine und Klavier Nr. 6 G-Dur BWV 1019
Robert Schumann: Violinsonate a-moll op. 105
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Franz Schubert: Rondo D 895
Franck, C.: Sonate für Violine und Klavier A-Dur (1886)
I
J. S. Bach: Sonate für Violine und Klavier Nr. 6 G-Dur BWV 1019
R. Schumann: Violinsonate a-Moll op. 105
****
A. Pärt: Spiegel im Spiegel
C. Franck: Sonate für Violine und Klavier A-Dur (1886)
II
J. S. Bach: Sonate für Violine und Klavier Nr. 6 G-Dur BWV 1019
Robert Schumann: Violinsonate a-moll op. 105
***
Franz Schubert: Rondo D 895
Franck, C.: Sonate für Violine und Klavier A-Dur (1886)
Link of Works (Florian Uhlig)