Su Jeon, Piano

Biography

Ms. Su Jeon has performed across North America, Europe and Asia, as a soloist, chamber musician, and active advocate of contemporary music. Engagements for the 2004-2005 season include the Chopin second concerto with the Arlington Philharmonic Orchestra and the Hart House Orchestra of the University of Toronto, the Mozart double concerto with the Banff Festival Orchestra, as well as a solo recital at the Phillips Collection in Washington DC. Her recent solo appearances have included the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra, Aspen Concert Orchestra, the Asturias Millennium Orchestra in Spain, and the New Juilliard Ensemble.

The youngest pianist to be invited to the 2001 Tanglewood Music Center, Ms. Jeon has worked with artists such as Emanuel Ax, Peter Serkin, Pamela Frank, and Ursula Oppens. Her performances have been broadcast on the WQXR New York radio station. At Juilliard she performed in the FOCUS! Festival, Piano Century, and B-A-C-H, where she played a part of Kaikhosru Sorabji's Opus Clavicembalisticum, the longest work ever written for the piano. Ms. Jeon has performed at the Aspen Music Festival in Colorado, Shandelee Music Festival in New York, Alice Tully Hall and Miller Theatre in New York, as well as at Harvard and Columbia Universities. Outside of North America, Ms. Jeon has given recitals at Cambridge University in England, as well as at cities in the Netherlands, Germany and Austria.

Ms. Jeon is a prize-winner at numerous competitions, including the Shreveport Symphony Nena Wideman International Piano Competition, the Arlington Philharmonic Society Young Artist Competition, the German Youth Competition, Samik National Competition in Korea, Kanto Plains Music Competition in Tokyo, and at the Nakamichi Concerto Competition in Aspen, Colorado. Ms. Jeon is also the recipient of numerous scholarships and prizes including the Van Cliburn Piano Scholarship, Susan Rose Scholarship in Piano, Jack Lowell Memorial Scholarship in Piano, Gluck Foundation Community Service Fellowship, Kamiya Sisters Piano Scholarship, Dadatel Foundation prize for promising young leaders.

Born in Seoul, Korea, Ms. Jeon traveled extensively in her youth, receiving her early musical training at the Jugendmusikschule in Frankfurt, Germany, as a pupil of Gudrun Rampini. She spent her teenage years in Seoul and Tokyo before moving to the United States to study at The Juilliard School in 1998. Ms. Jeon holds the International Baccalaureate Diploma, and has earned both her Bachelor's and Master's degrees from The Juilliard School as a student of Julian Martin. This past fall she began the Artist Diploma program at The Glenn Gould School of The Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, where she continues her studies with Marc Durand.