Sunwook Kim

Who is Sunwook Kim?

Sunwook Kim is a South Korean pianist.

Sunwook Kim came to international recognition when he won the prestigious Leeds International Piano Competition in 2006, aged just 18, becoming the competition’s youngest winner for 40 years, as well as its first Asian winner. His performance of Brahms’s Concerto No.1 with the Hallé Orchestra and Sir Mark Elder in the competition’s finals attracted unanimous praise from the press.

Sunwook Kim just concluded 2012 with a highly successful debut with the London Symphony Orchestra, stepping in at short notice to perform Beethoven’s Concerto No.4, conducted by Sir John Eliot Gardiner. Other highlights among his concerto projects in 12/13 and future seasons include return engagements with London’s Philharmonia Orchestra, Manchester’s Hallé Orchestra, the Bournemouth Symphony, the Helsinki Radio Symphony and the Seoul Philharmonic.

Recital projects for 12/13 and 13/14 include a Berlin debut at the Philharmonie, returns to the “Piano 4 Etoiles” series at Salle Pleyel in Paris, the Wigmore Hall in London, as well as the completion of his acclaimed Beethoven sonata cycle at the LG Arts Center, Seoul. Following his highly successful Japan debut tour in Spring 2012, he will also return to Kioi Hall Tokyo, Symphony Hall Osaka and Shirakawa Hall Nagoya.