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The South Korean born pianist Young-Choon Park began the study of the piano at the age of four and gave her first full recital when she was seven. She played the Beethoven Piano Concerto No 1 with the Seoul Symphony Orchestra at the age of nine. The young child prodigy studied at the Juilliard School in New York and later gained the highest masters degree at the Hochschule in Munich. She has toured extensively, giving over 50 concerts each year in Europe, Scandinavia, South Africa and the United States and has performed with many of the world’s leading orchestras. Young-Choon Park has broadcast for radio and television in many countries and is currently recording the complete Mozart piano concertos for Duchesne World Records in Belgium. Having played many of the world’s leading venues and festivals, she now comes to the Pavilion Arts Centre – fast becoming the home of great classical music in Derbyshire.