YOUNG-CHOON PARK FOR KZNPO

On October 28, talented South Korean pianist Young-Choon Park makes her debut appearance with the KZN Philharmonic Orchestra in the penultimate concert of the season.

Choon-Park began the study of the piano at the age of four. She gave her first full recital when she was seven and played the Beethoven Piano Concerto No.1 with the Seoul Symphony Orchestra at the age of nine. She then went on to study at the Juilliard School in New York, later gaining a masters degree at the Hochschule in Munich.

She has toured extensively in Europe, Scandinavia and the United States and performed at numerous major concert venues including the Birmingham Symphony Hall. She has broadcast for radio and television in many countries and is currently recording the complete Mozart piano concertos. It is only fitting that she will perform Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 20 in D Minor for the KZNPO, a work that is amongst the most celebrated pieces of music ever composed and, as critic Charles Rosen wrote, is “almost as much myth as work of art”.

The programme also features Haydn’s Symphony No. 19 in D Major and Mozart’s Symphony No. 40 in G Minor. Leading the evening’s programme is the young Italian conductor Alessandro Crudele who is establishing himself as one of the leading conductors in Europe. Crudele has already conducted the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, the Berlin Symphony, the Melbourne Symphony, the Israel Symphony and the Orchestra Sinfonica Arturo Toscanini.

This concert will take place at the Durban City Hall at 19h30 and booking is through Computicket. To enrich the audience’s concert experience, pre-concert talks are held from 18h15 to 19h00 at the Royal Hotel, hosted by the Friends of Music in association with the KZNPO. The lecturer for this week is Bobby Mills. Tickets R30 include light refreshments. Patrons have access to safe and subsidised parking at the Royal Hotel and extra security guards contracted by the KZNPO will be placed in the surrounding areas of the Durban City Hall for the security and safety of concert patrons.

For more information, contact 031 369 9438 or log onto www.kznpo.co.za or click on the KZNPO advert at the top of this page.