Seung-Un Ha
Aptly
described
as
a
rare
combination of silk and sinew, Korean-American
pianist SEUNG-UN HA is equally praised for the uncommon grace,
crystalline tone and singing legato she brings to Mozart, and the power
and passion she brings to Rachmaninoff and Tchaikovsky. Her
international career includes engagements with the Milwaukee,
Pittsburgh, Quebec, San Diego, Baltimore, Utah, Phoenix, Pasadena and
Pacific Symphonies and Tulsa Philharmonic; Florida Orchestra; Germany's
Bremen Philharmonic, France's Orchestre Symphonique Français,
Scotland's Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Mexico's Orquesta
Sinfonica de Mineria and Mexico City Philharmonic; Buenos Aires'
Orquesta de Camara Mayo and the National Symphony of Taiwan. Festival
invitations include New York's Chautauqua (Rachmaninoff #3 under Paul
Nadler), "Mostly Mozart," San Francisco's "Midsummer Mozart," Ravinia
and Aspen. She made her Hollywood Bowl and Los Angeles Philharmonic
debuts, performing Beethoven's Third Piano Concerto, Lawrence Foster
conducting., and her Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra debut, Music
Director Jeffrey Kahane conducting. Other conductors with whom Ms. Ha
has collaborated include Zdenek Macal, Leonard Slatkin, Joseph
Silverstein, Maximiano Valdes and George Cleve. She has also offered
acclaimed recitals in Washington, D.C., San Francisco, Philadelphia and
Detroit. Her 2010-11 season includes a debut with the Louisville
Orchestra in Chopin's First Piano Concerto.
Ms. Ha began her
piano studies at age three in her native Korea, giving her first public
recital two years later. At seven she placed First in Seoul's National
Youth Piano Competition; at ten she and her family came to the United
States, settling in Southern California. Her U.S. orchestral debut was
at age thirteen with the Santa Barbara Symphony; her auspicious New
York orchestral debut was in Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall,
Leonard Slatkin conducting the Juilliard Orchestra. Following studies
with Reginald Stewart at the Music Academy of the West in Santa
Barbara, she graduated from the Peabody Conservatory and The Juilliard
School. Her teachers include Leon Fleisher, Martin Canin and John Perry.
Ms. Ha performs
Rachmaninoff's 2nd Concerto, mvnt.1 below.