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Pianist Youn-Hee Bang, a native of South Korea, began her piano studies at age four and attended Yewon School of Music and Arts. She graduated from Sungshin Women’s University with highest honors and continued her studies with Alfons Kontarsky in Salzburg, Austria. Then, she came to the United States and studied with Eduardo Delgado as the first Recipient of Alicia de Larrocha Scholarship at the California State University, Fullerton. Then she moved to New York City and studied with Philip Kawin at the Manhattan School of Music where she also received Scholarship. Currently, Ms. Bang is a candidate for the DMA degree in piano performance at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, which offered her a full-tuition scholarship to study with Christina Dahl.

Her numerous awards include the first prize and the best performance award of the Los Angeles International Liszt Competition, grand prize at the National Music Competition for Young Students in S. Korea, and third prizes at the Carmel Piano Competition. Performing as a soloist with orchestras throughout Europe, the United States and S. Korea, Ms. Bang has appeared with I solisti de Perugia Orchestra (Italy), the International Chamber Ensemble of Rome, New York Symphony Orchestra, California State University Orchestra (U.S.A), Sungshin Women's University Orchestra as well as Gahng-Nahm Symphony (South Korea.) In addition, her solo engagements have presented her at such venues as the Seoul Arts Center, Se-Jong Art Center (South Korea), the Wiener Saal Concert Hall (Austria), and the City Hall (Spain). Youn-Hee has participated in many music festivals and master classes of renowned artists such as Alicia de Larroch, Ilana Vered, Gary Graffman, Natalia Troull, Dina Yoffe, Louis Lortie, Daniel Epstein, Enrique Graf, Michael Lewin, Igor Kypnis and Oxana Yablonskaya.