Pianist Park Jae Hong Releases the Album of Music Played in the Busoni Piano Competition

Pianist Park Jae Hong of the School of Music released the album “Piano Works of Ludwig van Beethoven, Ferruccio Busoni, and Johann Sebastian Bach.” Park not only won the 63rd Busoni Piano Competition but swept four special awards in the same contest. It is the 3rd project album by the K-Arts and Universal Music, who had signed the MOU in December 2019 to sponsor the young Korean artists. 

The album contains the three pieces of music Park played in the competition last year: Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 29 Hammerklavier, F. Busoni’s Ten Variations on Chopin Prelude, and J. S. Bach and F. Busoni’s Sleepers Awake, BWV 645.

Pianist Park Jae Hong completed the program of the Korea National Institute for the Gifted in Arts (KNIGA) and studied under dean Kim Daejin of the School of Music. Park debuted in 2014 through the Kumho Prodigy Concert. He has been in the limelight since he garnered the 1st prize in the 2015 Cleveland International Young Artist Piano Competition and another one in the 2016 Gina Bachauer International Young Artists Piano Competition. 

Besides, the K-Arts and Universal Music have worked on their project albums with the School of Music since 2020, beginning with the release of “Schubert: Piano Works for Four Hands” by pianists Kim Daejin and Mun Jiyeong. In 2021, they released the “Mozart & Brahms’ Clarinet Quintet” by Chae Jerry Jae-il, Lee Kangho, Lee Hann, Kim Young-uk, and Youn Eunsol. For the 4th album, the K-Arts and Universal Music are working on the string ensemble under the guidance of cellist and professor Park Sangmin.