2025 Fourth Quarter
Excited to play some new repertoires, including Ravel left hand concerto and Shostakovich piano concerto no. 2, along older ones like Rachmaninoff concerto no. 2 and recital programs in Germany, Korea and US. Continue to venturing to new places, new projects.
Also working on my debut contemporary music album in Europe. Awaiting for a special commission.
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2025 Third quarter
Chamber festival with major universities faculty in Seoul (June). Happy to be back at Seoul Arts Center for solo recital (July) on the full Little Prince program.
Summer festivals and masterclasses in Italy (July) and Norway (August).
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2025 Second quarter
Solo recitals and broadcasting programs in Germany (May) and Korea (June), with Brahms, Schumann, Ravel and more;
New cross-disciplinary CD album “Reminiscences of the Little Prince” (limited edition in print) in collaboration with Aura Music and illustrator Connie Maoshan is released in Hong Kong! Watch out for that from streaming platforms.
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2025 First quarter
Beethoven concerto tour in Germany, Boulez 100th Anniversary in Paris (France), Bach 340th Anniversary recital in Hong Kong and masterclass at Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, recital and several broadcasting programs in Korea. In US, my first faculty recital at Auer Hall. Exploring other new venues: Salle Cortot in Paris, Hong Kong City Hall Concert Hall, Credia (Seoul)’s Classic Club among others.
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2024 +
Happy with my concerto, chamber and solo performances in Korea and Palermo Classica (Italy). New album in progress with great team at Shaw Auditorium in Hong Kong.
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Summer 2024
Truly looking forward to giving masterclasses in Hong Kong (June), Shanghai (July) and Goslar (August) along my concert engagements in Asia and Europe. On top, a serious recording session at Radio-Televsion Hong Kong and live video project in Seoul before relocating to US.
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January 2024
Refreshing the new year with the premiere of new salon program “The Little Prince”. Do we still manage to keep a tiny corner for our purest self, or do we turn into boring adults under the rules of this world too? Can’t wait to share it in other cities and leave it on recordings!
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December 2023
Time to reflect on all the wonderful experiences I have gained from my residency in Budapest. The four curation programs have thoroughly extended my horizon in concert programming (works by Isang Yun, Ligeti and young composer Gregoire Rolland who dedicated his new work “Line and Circle” to me, have inspired me new ways to penetrate contemporary works). The guidance from Maestro György Kurtág was truly invaluable.
Thank you.
Also feeling rewarded to have performed Beethoven Choral Fantasy, Mozart Piano Concertos K.466 & K.467, Debussy’s Fantasy for Piano and Orchestra and Schumann’s A minor Concerto (tour) this year in Korea and Germany.
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July 2023
Artist faculty at 2023 Shanghai International Piano Festival & Institute, under directorship of Douglas Humpherys and Tang Zhe. Happy to kick off the festival with my full recital at the opening gala.
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June 2023
J.S. Bach’s Goldberg Variations, BWV 988
Extremely honoured to present this monumental work the very first time as a sold-out recital! More to come.
Departure, Change and Return
The very first musical motif of the Goldberg Variations, the Aria, is played in thirty different forms, before finally returning to the starting point. Although it is a work composed in the West, its structure may also remind us of the idea of reincarnation in the East. I want to share with the audience the experience of this cycle of sounds and then their return to calmness.
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New residency in Budapest starting summer 2022!
Officially announce here my exciting two-year residency at Korean Cultural Centre Hungary. While many more explorations are on the way, the residency will commence in July 2022 with “Exotisme”, a newly conceived solo program upon post-Romantic French and Spanish poetry, landscape and imageries.
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Also in concerts 2021-2022
“Love. Poison: Ballet without Dancers”
Intertwining ballet suites with dance impressions, this program serves a non-verbal quest on the purposes and touches of life, love and sacrifices.
In Germany, Hungary, Italy and Slovakia.
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With Maestro Chung Myung-whun on Tchaikovsky First Piano Concerto touring nationally in Korea (July, August and December 2019). Learn work ethics and musicianship from a living giant.
with conductor Myung-whun Chung
and KBS Symphony Orchestra
Chi Ho HAN 