Mun Jiyeong of the School of Music Performs at the Wigmore Hall

Pianist Mun Jiyeong, a current student of School of Music at the Korea National University of Arts, plays at the Wigmore Hall in London. Having won the first prizes both in the Geneva International Music Competition 2014 and the Busoni International Piano Competition 2015 for the first time both in Asia and in Korea, Mun rewrote the history of the Korean classical music. As a young musician who is in demand both as a soloist and in recital internationally, Mun makes another debut at the Wigmore Hall in London at 7:30 pm(GMT) on the upcoming October 27th. In this event, she plays Ludwig van Beethoven’s Sonata No.31, Robert Schumann’s Humoreske in B flat Op.20, Maurice Ravel’s Miroirs and Isaac Albéniz’s Almería (Triana). Mun Jiyeong already made her debut at the Steinway Hall, New York last October and toured the east coast of the USA. This spring, she met her audiences internationally at the Seoul Spring Festival of Chamber Music, Classical Concert at Deoksugung Seokjojeon Palace, and a recital. In Italy, Mun performed in Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli Festival on August 2019, and she is yet having a chamber collaboration and recital at the Palermo Classica Festival. She also has chamber collaborations with MAV Symphony Orchestra in Budapest, Hungary this October as well as with the Auditorio Nacional de Musica in Madrid under the baton of Victor Pablo Perez.

Given a profound understanding of music, Mun Jiyeong was selected as a gifted child in 2012 at the Korea National Institute for the Gifted in Arts and entered the School of Music at the Korea National University of Arts at the top of her class as an Instrumental Music major in 2014. Currently, she is studying under Pianist Kim Dae-jin in the graduate program.