Festival International German Piano Award
Concert series and official opening concert Musikmesse 2016

With Laureates and Nominees International German Piano Award.

01 April 2016 · Großer Saal Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt am Main · 7.30 p.m.

Ah Ruehm Ahn , Nominee International German Piano Award. The Winner of the International Piano Competition Santander 2012 has already perfomed with the Madrid Symphony Orchestra and the Dortmund Philharmonics and gave her debut in Carnegie Hall in 2013.

Yekwon Sunwoo – Laureate International German Piano Award, Vendome Prize 2014 (Verbier Festival), several distinctions Queen Elisabeth Competition. The 26 year old Korean with residency in New York has performed Carnegie Hall, Wigmore Hall as well as with internationally acclaimed orchestras such as the Orchestre National de Belgique. At the closure of his successful tour in Germany in November 2015 the audience in Gewandhaus Leipzig has requested several encores with standing ovations.

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Program 1 April

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Ah Ruehm Ahn

Pianist · Nominee International German Piano Award 2012

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791) · Rondo in D major, K. 485

Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849) · Piano Sonata No. 2 in B-flat minor, Op. 35

Sergei Prokofjew (1891-1953) · 4 Études, Op. 2

Claude Debussy (1862-1918) · L’Isle Joyeuse

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INTERMISSION

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Yekwon Sunwoo

Pianist · Laureate International German Piano Award 2015

Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921) · 6 Études for the left hand, Op. 135

Franz Liszt (1811-1886) · Der Müller und der Bach, S. 565 Nr. 2 · Erlkönig, S. 558 Nr. 4

(Transcriptions for the piano from Franz Schubert‘s »Lieder«)

Sergei Rachmaninow (1873-1943) · Piano Sonata No. 2 in B-flat minor, Op. 36

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