Concert pianist, Artist Manager, Pedagogue, Coach
Founder/ Artistic Director / Conductor
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pianist/conductor / artistic director
Helena Ha-Young Sul
Helena Ha-Young made her debut as pianist at age seven and won first prize in the international Steinway piano competition in Hamburg, Germany, which was recorded for German television. She made her solo debut with the Malmö Symphony Orchestra and the Trelleborg Orkesterförening when she was nine.
Her musical studies include five years at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen with teachers such as Tom Ernst, José Ribera, Amalie Malling, Anne Øland and Friedrich Gürtler. She continued for two years at the Royal Academy of Music in London with Christopher Elton and for three years at the Conservatoire de Musique de Genève with Dominique Merlet, where she obtained a Diplome de Soliste. Last year she received a scholarship that gave her the opportunity to study conducting, and she has participated in conducting class in Gothenburg and in Aveiro, Portugal.
Helena Ha-Young is active as a concert pianist, chamber musician and a highly appreciated teacher, coach and mentor. She had performed in Scandinavia, Europe, China, South Korea, Japan and the United States. She is also regularly invited as pedagogue in masterclasses and as jury member in piano/music competitions. Alongside her work as a concert pianist, she has, as artistic director, staged the music theatre piece "Marie and the Music," based on Clara and Robert Schumann’s eldest daughter Marie. She has also arranged Saint-Saëns’s Carnival of the Animals together with the illustrator Cecilia Boström and others.
Since 2010 Helena Ha-Young Sul has established an important platform for young pianists and musicians both nationally and internationally.