Kun Woo Paik is considered one of the most important pianists of his generation. Born in Seoul, Kun Woo Paik’s first concert was at the age of 10 performing the Grieg Piano Concerto with the Korean National Orchestra. At the age of 15, Kun Woo Paik moved to New York to study with Rosina Lhevinne at the Julliard School and with Ilona Kabos in London. He also studied in Italy with Guido Agosti and Willhelm Kempff. Mr. Paik is the winner of the Naumburg and Gold Medallist at the Busoni International Piano Competitions, and his international career took off following his first New York appearance, in which he performed complete piano works by Maurice Ravel at the Lincoln Centre, followed by his orchestral debut at Carnegie Hall. In 1974 Paik made his European debuts with 3 consecutive recitals at the Wigmore Hall in London, following in 1975 by a recital at the Berlin Philharmonic. Since then he has closely collaborated with conductors such as Lorin Maazel, Mariss Jansons, Sir Neville Marriner, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Jiri Belohlavek, Mikhail Pletnev, Dmitri Kitaenko, James Conlon, John Nelson, Eliahu Inbal and Krzysztof Penderecki and performed with orchestras such as the New York Philharmonic, St. Petersburg Philharmonic, London Symphony, BBC Symphony (Last Night of the Proms, 1987), Orchestre de Paris, Berlin Symphony, Hungarian National, Monte-Carlo Philharmonic, Oslo Philharmonic, Rotterdam, Rai Italia, Warsaw Philharmonic and English Chamber Orchestra. He is also a regular guest artist of Music festivals such as Berlin Festwochen, Aix-en-Provence, La Roque d’Antheron, Ravinia, Mostly Mozart, Colmar, Montreux, Dubrovnik, Aldeburgh and Moscow Easter Festival. He was the first Korean artist to be officially invited by the Chinese government in October 2000. The year 2003 was marked by the fiftieth anniversary of Prokofiev’s death. Paik has performed his concerti in Berlin and Milano, Budapest, Beijing, Tokyo, Seoul, Nice and Seville. Next season he was invited to perform the complete Rachmaninov Concerto with the China Philharmonic in November 2004. Other forthcoming performances include an invitation from Mr. Penderecki to perform his new piano concerto under Penderecki’s baton. His repertoire is extensive from Bach to Stockhausen, from Busoni to Scriabin, from Liszt to Messiaen. He created an important musical event with a series of 6 recitals in London and Paris dedicated to works for solo by Franz Liszt. In the year 2000, he gave the Asian Premier of Busoni piano concerto in Seoul. Kun Woo Paik’s numerous recordings include Scriabin, Liszt, complete works for solo piano by Mussorgsky, complete Rachmaninov’s Piano Concertos and “Rhapsody on a theme by Paganini” (under Vladimir Fedoseeyev for BMG.) His complete Prokofiev Piano Concerto recording received both the “Diapason d’or” of the year in 1993 and “Nouvelle Academie du disque” Award in France. As an exclusive Decca artist, to celebrate J.S Bach’s year in 2000, he recorded Busoni’s Transcriptions of Bach’s organ works followed by an album of Faure’s Piano works, which won all the major prizes in France. He recently released the complete works for piano and orchestra by Chopin with Antoni Wit and the Warsaw Philharmonic.