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 Suh is a faculty member in the College for the following department(s) and division(s): - Piano — Teaching Associate (College)
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Hai-Kyung Suh graduated from the Juilliard School, where she studied with Sascha Gorodnitzki and was the first female recipient of the prestigious Petschek Award. She recently recorded a double-disc CD of various short pieces on the Deutsche Grammophon label to be released November 2005. Late in 2006, Ms. Suh will be recording Rachmaninoff's five concerti, also for Deutsche Grammophon. Hai-Kyung Suh dazzled the international music scene as the first Asian to win the top prize in the Busoni international Competition as a teen-ager and the ARD International Music Competition in Munich. Her New York recital debut at Alice Tully Hail five years later was hailed by the New York Times as "a propulsive and exciting performance, built block by sonic block with the structural command of a musical architect."
In June of 1988, she hosted the gala concert at Carnegie Hall, commemorating the 135th anniversary of the Steinway piano. The concert was broadcast nationwide on PBS and recorded on DVD along with performances by Van Cliburn, Murray Perahia, Rudolf Serkin, and eighteen other internationally renowned Steinway pianists, including Ms. Suh. In the summer of 1988, Ms. Suh played the Prokofiev Third Concerto with the Moscow Philharmonic at the Seoul Olympic Festival.
Born in Korea. Ms. Suh has appeared as a soloist with numerous renowned orchestras, including the Berlin Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the London Philharmonia, the Moscow State Symphony, the Moscow Philharmonic, the Pittsburgh Symphony, the Frankfurt Radio Symphony, the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, and the Slovak Radio Symphony, among others.
Known for her astonishing stamina and power at the keyboard, Ms. Suh was one of the first Korean pianists to establish an international career. She toured the Far East with the Philadelphia Orchestra under Riccardo Muti, playing the Chopin's First Concerto. She performed the Lizst First Concerto with the Pittsburgh Symphony, conducted by Charles Dutoit. One reviewer on that occasion described her as "imperiously romantic, on an impressively large scale, a genuine fire-breather." After her stunning performance of the Tchaikovsky First Concerto with the Berlin Radio Symphony, the Berliner Morgenpost described her playing as "in the grand manner, full of bravura, fire and delicacy."
As the one of most important artists of her country, Ms. Suh was invited to perform with the Three Tenors in their June 2001 concert in Seoul. In September 2000, she performed Beethoven's "Emperor" Concerto in Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center in New York with the American Symphony Orchestra and the Grieg Concerto with the Colombian National Symphony Orchestra in Bogotá. The highlights of recent seasons include the Rachmaninoff Third Concerto with the London Philharmonic Orchestra under Paolo Olmi; a recital at the Beethoven House in Bonn, Germany; and a recital at Alice Tully Hall in May of 2005.
Manhattan School of Music associate faculty since 2005.
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