Seung-min Kang_Cellist

"The interpretation of contemporary music that we have heard is recreated with surprise and speciality within her performance."

This is a Canvas-TV review of her, Laureate of the 2017 Queen Elizabeth Competition. Her cello concerto "Sublimation" by Toshio Hosokawa was so well received that it was released as a representative of Queen Elizabeth's CD Recording, and media outlets and critics from Germany, Belgium, and Japan commented on her performance, saying, "She dominated the audience's breathing with her charismatic and appealing performances pouring out of her eyes with tremendous concentration." In addition, she, who became the first Korean to win fifth place in the cello category at the International Tchaikovsky Competition held in Russia in 2015, has already been praised by world-renowned cellist David Geringas as "a perfect and flawless cellist and sensual non-truzoan musician," and by Natalia Gutman as "a true music-loving cellist." And Kit Fitzgerald, a 2020 Best Class Music Award winner, prominent video artist, and director selected by The New York Times for her music video work for "Bach Phenomenology."
<“Seung-min Kang is a star. So elegant and expressive. The camera is equally musical, rising and floating around her. A very original way of experiencing Bach. I could watch this all day.”> said that.

Starting with the concert with the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra at the age of 11, he has performed and masterclassed abroad, including the Kumho Youngjae, the Incheon Philharmonic Orchestra, the Suwon Symphony, the Gwacheon Symphony, the Bucheon Philharmonic, the PyeongChang Winter Music Festival, the Korean Chamber, the Getysburg Chamber Orchestra, the German Schleswig-Holstein Festival, the Lithuanian Christopher Festival Orchestra, the Monaco Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra, the Saint Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, the International Mariinsky Far East Festival held in Russia, the Berlin Konzerthaus in Germany, the PyeongChang Winter Music Festival, the Daegwallyeong International Music Festival, the Yeonggwanryeong International Music Festival, the 2019 Berlin Philharmonic Music Festival, the Seoul Spring Festival, and many of the world's leading festivalsHe has been active as a tutor, chamber music, and soloist, continuing his lineage as the last disciple of legendary cellist David Geringas, Mstislav Rostropovich.

Gaspar Casa also became the first Korean to win first place at the Cello International Competition, releasing and touring albums in Japan, and winning a special prize at the Rostrovich International Cello Competition, which began to draw attention as the next new performer on the international stage. Already standing out by winning the Washington Johansson Junior International String Competition, she has been recognized for her outstanding performance in leading domestic and international competitions, including second place at the Young Tchaikovsky International Competition and the youngest first place at the age of 17 at the Dong-A Music Competition. She also won the Daewon Music Award and the Unpa Executive Music Award.

Park Kyung-ok graduated from Yewon Middle School at age 8 and was admitted to Korea National University of Arts in 2003 at the youngest age of 16. After graduating from Korea National University of Arts in 2007, she studied at Hanns-Eisler National University of Music. She graduated from Diplom and Kozertexamen with top honors from world-renowned cellists and conductors David Geringas and Troels Svane.