Cellist Park Yushin Solo Recital: Chopin and Barber Cello Sonatas

October 12 at IBK Chamber Hall, Seoul Arts Center

Cellist Park Yushin will hold a solo recital at the IBK Chamber Hall of the Seoul Arts Center on October 12, 2025.

Park Yushin has distinguished herself by winning prizes at prestigious international competitions. She won second prize at the Janacek International Competition in 2018 and also took second place at the Anton Rubinstein International Competition that same year. In 2015, she won second prize and a special award at the Brahms International Competition.

Park Yushin is also active as an artistic director, in addition to her work as a performer, leading the Autumn Chamber Music Festival and the Pohang International Music Festival. She has served as the artistic director of the Autumn Chamber Music Festival since 2019, successfully concluding its seventh edition last month. Since 2021, she has also held the position of artistic director for the Pohang International Music Festival, further expanding the horizons of Korean chamber music.

For this recital, Park Yushin will present a wide spectrum of emotions through works by four composers, each representing a different era.

The program will open with Beethoven's "Seven Variations on 'Bei M?nnern, welche Liebe f?hlen' from Mozart's The Magic Flute," showcasing the refinement and wit characteristic of the Classical period. Next, Barber's "Cello Sonata" will be performed, offering lyricism and modern tension encapsulated in the concise and direct melodies unique to American music, distinct from traditional European Romanticism. Dvorak's "Four Romantic Pieces" will evoke the warm and familiar sentiment of the Bohemian spirit. The recital will conclude with Chopin's only cello sonata, which exemplifies exquisite lyricism at its finest.

Professor Sohn Jungbeom of Kyung Hee University College of Music will collaborate in the performance. In 2017, Sohn Jungbeom became the first Korean pianist to win first prize at the ARD International Music Competition in Germany by unanimous decision of the judges.