Rachmaninoff COncerto No.2 In C Minor, Op. 18 (Moderato)
Seung-Un Ha
by arrangement
with Matthew Sprizzo
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.