In recent years Yeol Eum has appeared as concerto soloist with leading orchestras in Europe, Asia, Australia and the United States. Yeol Eum Son’s 2022-23 schedule includes a succession of debut performances with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra (Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No.2), the NDR Radiophilharmonie (Beethoven and Rachmaninov concertos), the Detroit Symphony Orchestra (Mendelssohn’s Piano Concerto No.1), the Orquesta Sinfónica del Principado de Asturias (Szymanowski’s Symphony No.4), Musikkollegium Winterthur (Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G major), the Scottish Chamber Orchestra (Mozart’s Piano Concerto in B-flat Major K.595), and the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra (Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No.2). The nine-concert residency continues throughout the season with performances of Mozart’s Piano Concerto in D minor, Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue and I Got Rhythm, Saint-Saëns’ Piano Concerto No.2 and Ravel’s Piano Concerto for the Left Hand.
Yeol Eum returned from Australia to Europe in September 2022 to launch her term as Artist-inResidence with the Residentie Orkest with Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G major. Pianist magazine wrote of the ‘breathtaking dexterity and finger control’ on display in Yeol Eum’s recording of Nikolai Kapustin’s jazz-infused works for solo piano, while the Sydney Morning Herald commended the ‘light, fine-pointed energy, alert nimbleness and agile precision’ of her reading of Mozart’s Piano Concerto in D minor K.466 with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and Edo de Waart, given during her Australian debut tour at the start of the 2022-23 season. She has likewise discovered fresh creative perspectives as Artistic Director of Music in PyeongChang, a position she held from 2018 – 2022, and as a regular chamber music partner with, among others, the violinist Svetlin Roussev and the Modigliani Quartet. Her development as an all-round artist has gained from collaborations with conductors as diverse as Lorin Maazel, Dmitri Kitajenko, Valery Gergiev, Andrew Manze, Jaime Martin, Jun Märkl, Roberto González-Monjas, Jonathon Heyward, Ryan Bancroft, Pablo Gonzalez, Pietari Inkinen, Joana Carneiro, Gergely Madaras and Omer Meir Welber. In high demand as recitalist, concerto soloist and chamber musician, Yeol Eum has won critical plaudits for the profound insights and intelligence of her interpretations.
She is driven above all by her natural curiosity to explore a multitude of musical genres and styles and the desire to reveal what she describes as the “pure essence” of everything she performs. Her refined artistry rises from breathtaking technical control and a profound empathy for the emotional temper of the works within her strikingly wide repertoire. Poetic elegance, an innate feeling for expressive nuance and the power to project bold dramatic contrasts are among the arresting attributes of Yeol Eum Son’s pianism.
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