Kyuhee Park | |
Birth Place: | Incheon, South Korea |
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Occupation: | Instrumentalist (guitar) |
Kyuhee Park (born 1985) is a classical guitarist who was born in Incheon, South Korea and raised in South Korea and Japan.
Park began her guitar studies at age three in Yokohama, Japan. 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 and international competitions. She moved back to Japan at age fifteen. 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]
Park has won an unusual number of first prizes in international competitions,[1] [2] to wit:
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.
She also recorded a recital CD for Naxos in 2013 which won the "American Record Guide Critic's Choice" award. (Naxos 8.573225)