Korean pianist Dasol Kim brings “a refined artistry of incredible maturity” to his performances (North Germany Review). A sought-after soloist, he has appeared with orchestras including the New York Philharmonic in Seoul, the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, the Berlin Konzerthaus Orchestra, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, the Berlin Chamber Orchestra, the MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra, Concerto Budapest, and the Belgium National Orchestra.

Cellist Sang-Eun Lee won the 2014 Young Concert Artists International Auditions and First Prize at the 2014 YCA Auditions in Seoul, Korea. She also won the YCA Korean Concert Society Prize and will appear in her Washington, DC debut recital at the Kennedy Center on November 18, 2015 and at Merkin Hall in New York on December 15, 2015.

Korean Concert Society (KCS) has begun partnering with the New York-based organization Young Concert Artists (YCA) to select outstanding young musicians to perform in debut recitals co-presented by KCS and YCA at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC.

KCS has selected French Clarinettist Raphaël Sévère to receive the 2014 Korean Concert Society Prize. He will perform a debut recital at the Kennedy Center in the 2014-15 season. Sévère won the 2013 Young Concert Artists audition and a jury of KCS board members selected him from among the other YCA winners for the prize.

KCS selected Korean-born pianist J for the 2013 Korean Concert Society Prize. Ji won the 2012 Young Concert Artists (YCA) audition and a jury of KCS board members selected him from among the other YCA winners for the prize. He performed in a debut Recital at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC on December 3, 2013. Ji was the first artist to win the Korean Concert Society Prize through a new partnership between KCS and YCA.

Korean Concert Society is pleased to announce that cellist Han Bin Yoon, a student of Ralph Kirschbaum in cello performance at the USC Thornton School of Music and a Summa Cum Laude graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music, has been chosen for the 2013 Kennedy Center Debut Recital.

KCS is pleased to announce that Cellist Jeonghyoun Christine Lee, 21, has been chosen as the alternate for the 2013 Kennedy Center Debut Recital. If primary Han Bin Yoon cannot perform, she will take his place at the KCS recital on October 20, 2013 in the Kennedy Center Terrace Theater.

Schubert, Liszt, Prokofiev, and a world premiere of a work by KCS composer-in-residence Quentin Kim are on the program as pianist Irene Kim makes her Kennedy center debut on September 8, 2012.