Su Jeon

Praised by the Winnipeg Free Press as a "dynamo pianist" with an "intense focus, virtuosic technique" and "poetic sensibility", Canadian pianist Su Jeon is the winner of the 2007 Eckhardt-Gramatte National Music Competition. Recently Su completed a 16-city recital tour of Canada, performed the Beethoven Second Concerto with the Montreal Chamber Orchestra, Grieg Piano Concerto with the North York Concert Orchestra, Prokofieff Third Concerto with the York Symphony Orchestra, and has been invited for return engagements at the Phillips Collection in Washington DC, Kitchener-Waterloo Chamber Music Society in Ontario, and the University of Calgary. Her recent debuts include the Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre at the Canadian Opera Company, Outremont Art Gallery in Quebec, and St. Clement's Church in Verdun.

Ms. Jeon has performed throughout North America and abroad, and has appeared in notable venues such as Lincoln Center, Chicago Cultural Center, and Teatro Jovellanos in Spain. She has been heard with the Arlington Philharmonic, Aspen Concert Orchestra, Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra, York Symphony Orchestra, Banff Festival Orchestra, and Hart House Orchestra of the University of Toronto among others. She was the youngest pianist to be invited to the 2001 Tanglewood Music Center, where her performances were broadcast on the WQXR New York radio station.

Born in Korea and raised in Germany and Japan, Su received her early musical training at the Jugendmusikschule in Frankfurt as a pupil of Gudrun Rampini. She earned the International Baccalaureate Diploma before moving to New York to study at The Juilliard School, where she received her Bachelor's and Master's degrees as a student of Julian Martin. Most recently she earned her Artist Diploma from The Glenn Gould School of The Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto studying with Marc Durand. She is currently completing her doctorate at l'Universite de Montreal with Marc Durand. Ms. Jeon's work is generously sponsored by the Canada Council for the Arts.