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Sung-Won Yang is a South Korean cellist who performs worldwide as a soloist and as a chamber musician. He studied with Philippe Muller and Janos Starker, and graduated from the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris.
Sung-Won Yang | |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Cellist |
| Korean name | |
| Hangul | 양성원 |
| Revised Romanization | Yang Seong-won |
| McCune–Reischauer | Yang Sŏng'wŏn |
He has collaborated with many musicians such as Christoph Eschenbach, MyungWhun Chung, Peter Eötvös, Johannes Kalitzke, Laurent Petitgirard, and Pascal Devoyon.
Since 2009, he is a founding member of the Trio Owon with violinist Olivier Charlier and pianist Emmanuel Strosser.
He is also a regular concert and recording partner of pianist Enrico Pace, with whom he has recorded the complete cello/piano sonatas of Beethoven, Schumann, and Brahms.
His all-Kodály debut album was chosen as Editor's Choice of the month by Gramophone Magazine (2003) and a Critic's Choice of the year by Gramophone (2003). He has also recorded works by Rachmaninoff, Chopin and Liszt, Bach, Beethoven, Dvorák, Elgar and Schumann for EMI and Universal Music / Decca.
In 2010 he recorded the Dvořák Cello Concerto with the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Znedek Macal.
In 2017 he recorded the Bach Cello Suites.
He has served as a juror at the Banff International Chamber Music Competition in Canada, the André Navarra International Cello Competition in France, the Cassado International Cello Competition in Japan [1] and the Tongyeong International Competition in Korea
He is currently a professor of cello at Yonsei University School of Music in Seoul, visiting professor in Residence at the Royal Academy of Music in London.[2]
Yang is also the artistic Director of the Festival Beethoven à Beaune, in France,[3] and of Music in PyeongChang Festival.[4]
He is recipient of Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by the French government.[5]
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- 2002 : Kodály - Music For Cello And Piano. With Ick-Choo Moon (piano). Editor's Choice of the month by Gramophone Magazine (2003) and a Critic's Choice of the year by Gramophone (2003).
- 2010 : Dvořák - Cello Concerto / Piano Trio "Dumky". With the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra (Conductor : Znedek Macal)
- 2011 : Musical Getaway. With Les Bons Becs
- 2017 : J.S.Bach - Cello Suites
With Enrico Pace
- 2014 : Brahms Schumann - Complete Works For Cello And Piano. With Enrico Pace (piano)
- 2018 : Franz Liszt & Frédéric Chopin - Cantique d'Amour. With Enrico Pace (piano)
- 2022 : Beethoven - Complete Works For Cello And Piano. With Enrico Pace (piano)
With Trio Owon
- 2010 : Schubert – sonate pour violoncelle et piano ‘arpeggione’ et trio en mi bémol majeur op. 100
- 2011 : Schubert, Dvorák - Piano Trios
- 2013 : Beethoven - Piano Trio Op.97 ‘Archduke’ - Piano Trio In E Flat Major Op.70
- 2015 : complete Beethoven trio
- 2016 : Olivier Messiaen, Quatuor pour la fin du temps - Gounod, L’anniversaire Des Martyrs / Chant pour le départ des missionnaires.
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