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Dasol Kim
Dasol Kim (born 1989) is a South Korean pianist. Born in Busan, Kim started playing the piano at the age of 11, and by 15 won his first international competition and left for Germany. He is a graduate of Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover and studied with Arie Vardi. Kim won the Young Concert Artists International Auditions in Leipzig in 2010 and in New York in 2015. Additionally, he won First Prize in the 2011 Epinal International Piano Competition in France, and Second Prize in the 2012 Concours Géza Anda in Switzerland. In 2012 he also won the Kissinger Klavierolymp, the piano competition of the festival Kissinger Sommer. He won a Jury Discretionary Award at the 2017 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in the United States; Fort Worth Star-Telegram enthusiastically wrote that Kim "dominated" in his preliminary round recital. In 2015, Dasol Kim held the Mortimer Levitt Piano Chair of Young Concert Artists. Kim has appeared as soloist with such orch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Busan
Busan (), officially known as is South Korea's most populous city after Seoul, with a population of over 3.4 million inhabitants. Formerly romanized as Pusan, it is the economic, cultural and educational center of southeastern South Korea, with its port being Korea's busiest and the sixth-busiest in the world. The surrounding "Southeastern Maritime Industrial Region" (including Ulsan, South Gyeongsang, Daegu, and some of North Gyeongsang and South Jeolla) is South Korea's largest industrial area. The large volumes of port traffic and urban population in excess of 1 million make Busan a Large-Port metropolis using the Southampton System of Port-City classification . Busan is divided into 15 major administrative districts and a single county, together housing a population of approximately 3.6 million. The full metropolitan area, the Southeastern Maritime Industrial Region, has a population of approximately 8 million. The most densely built-up areas of the city are situated in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
