22nd
València
ITURBI
International
Piano
Competition
From May 31 to June 10, 2023
Jeongjin Kim
Born in Seoul, Republic of Korea. She has gone through the education of Yewon School, Seoul Arts High School, graduated with the best grades from College of music at Seoul National University under Prof. Aviram Richert. Currently, she is pursuing her Master degree at Hochschule für Musik und Tanz in Köln under the tutelage of prof. Fabio Bidini and now, 25 years old.
In this year, she won the first prize in the Karlrobert Kreiten Klavierwettbewerb. In 2022, she was also awarded the second prize and special prize for Jury award in the Verona International Piano Competition. Continuously she won the first prize and special prize in the Campillos International Piano Competition, the second prize and Beethoven Special Prize in WPTA international Piano Competition. And she got the third prize at Suzhou Jinji Lake Competition. She won the first prize at HongKong-Asia Piano Competition and took concert at Anton Bruckner University in Austria. At the age of 13 she was awarded Gold prize at the International Chopin Piano Competition in ASIA, and at the same year has performed with the Suwon Philharmonic Ochestra. She has also took part in the Prime Philharmonic Orchestra, Corail Syphony Orchestra, and other various symphony orchestras. In 2018, she had also been chosen to receive a scholarship program provided by Hyundai’s Chung Mong-koo foundation and is continuing to perfect her work of music.