Childhood
Son took her first piano lesson at the age of three and a half. She made a recital debut on Kumho Prodigy Concert Series in July 1998. At the age of twelve, she started studying with pianist Kim Dae-jin. At age sixteen, she entered the Korea National University of Arts to continue her piano studies. At the age of 18, she recorded the complete Chopin Etudes (Op. 10 and Op. 25) for a CD on the Universal Music Label.
She has performed with New York Philharmonic Orchestra, NHK Symphony Orchestra, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, Czech Philharmonic Orchestra and many others. She has been sponsored by Kumho Asiana Cultural Foundation, Korea. Since 2006, Son has been studying with Arie Vardi at the Hochschule für Musik und Theatre, Hannover, Germany.
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“[Children] do not yet lie to themselves and therefore have not entered upon that important tacit agreement which marks admission into the adult world, to wit, that I will respect your lies if you will agree to let mine alone. That unwritten contract is one of the clear dividing lines between the world of childhood and the world of adulthood.”
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