Kyuhee Park

Kyuhee Park
Background information
Born 1985
Genres
Occupation(s) Instrumentalist (guitar)
Instruments

Kyuhee Park (born 1985) is a classical guitarist who was born in Incheon, South Korea.

Biography

Park began her guitar studies at age three. At age nine, she won first prize in the Youth Division of the National Korean Guitar Competition, followed by a string of first prizes in national in international competitions. She enrolled in the Tokyo College of Music in 2004 and studied with Japanese classical guitarists Shin-Ichi Fukuda and Kiyoshi Shomura and later with Álvaro Pierri at the Vienna Music University. She has participated in opera tours conducted by Seiji Ozawa and in 2009 she took part in the "Guitar Fiesta" in Hakuju Hall, Tokyo. She also performed in Carnegie Hall in New York in October 2012.[1]

Competitions

Park has won an unusual number of first prizes in international competitions,[1][2] to wit:

Recordings

In 2010, Park made her first album, Sueño (Dreams) on the FONTEC label in Japan, and in 2012 she recorded another album, Sonate Noir. She collaborated with Nippon Columbia Inc. and released the album Spanish Journey in August 2012.

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