COMPETITION 2017
SUAH YE, Piano
Suah won first prize at the 1st Arthur Rubinstein International Youth Piano Competition in Beijing, China 2016. Suah was born in South Korea in 2000 and graduated from Yewon Middle School as valedictorian. She studies piano with Professor Soo Jung Shin. She also won the 1st prize at the 9th International Tchaikovsky Competition for Young Musicians, and recently she won the Pnina Salzman award at Tel-Hai International Piano Master Classes. Suah has also won first prizes at national competitions: Korea Chopin, the National Teenager Piano, the Eum-Youn National Music, Yewon National, Suri National, Asia International Piano Academy Festival, and Grand Prize at the Han-kook Ilbo Junior National. Following her debut recital under the sponsorship of the Kumho Asiana Foundation at the age of 9, she performed throughout Korea as a soloist, with orchestras and in recitals. She has appeared on Korean Broadcast TV and Radio.