DA-HEE KIM piano
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Monday 16 March 20265.30pm Doors/Bar
6.15pm Pre-concert talk by Nicholas Scott-Burt 7.00pm Concert (approx. 60 mins, no interval) Tickets: £30 Adults £20 Concessions £25.50 Early Bird (if purchased by 15 Jan 2026) Ticket price includes a complimentary welcome drink |
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Da-Hee Kim will be giving the London Premiere of 24 Preludes for Piano by Nicholas Scott-Burt (complete)
In his 24 Preludes for Piano, composed between 2019-2020, Scott-Burt takes a post-modern approach to the long-standing tradition of presenting a cycle of works in all 24 major and minor keys. He follows in the footsteps of J.S. Bach, Chopin, and Shostakovich, among others, aiming to represent the innate expressive qualities associated with each key, while bringing a unique approach to the work’s architecture. Each prelude is treated as a miniature, yet is also combined to create a seamless, integrated structure - a giant ‘symphony' for the piano. With her distinctive palette of tone colours and keen musical sensitivity, Da-Hee Kim brings the 24 Preludes vividly to life. |
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Nicholas Scott-Burt
24 Preludes for Piano
24 Preludes for Piano
Da-Hee Kim |
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Da-Hee Kim is an award-winning pianist renowned for her expressive solo and chamber music performances across Europe and South Korea. She recently performed Mozart’s A minor Concerto with the Oriflamme Ensemble and has appeared at prominent venues and festivals including St George’s Bristol, Centre Culturel Coréen de Paris, Festival Arcades (France), Mostly Piano Series at Drapers’ Hall (UK), and Seoul’s July Festival.
A prize winner at numerous international competitions, Da-Hee has received 1st prizes at the Albert Roussel International Junior Piano Competition (Sofia), Concours International de Piano de Mérignac, Claude Bonneton Competition de Sète, and Valletta Competition, as well as 2nd prize at Montecatini International Piano Competition. She was also awarded the Fondation Banque Populaire Grant and the Korean Honor Scholarship. A dedicated chamber musician, she regularly performs with her brother, violinist Da-Min Kim, concertmaster of the Marseille Philharmonic Orchestra. The Duo Ainos won the 2nd place at Concours International de Musique de Chambre de Lyon. Their album Tradition chez les modernes, featuring sonatas by Debussy and Strauss on Lyrinx label, was praised by critics and broadcasted by South Korea’s KBS. Together, they have performed at Salle Colonne, Salle Cortot in Paris, Arsenal de Metz, Palazzetto Bru Zane in Venice, and Opéra d’Alger in Algeria and more. Da-Hee holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the Peabody Conservatory (Johns Hopkins University), and Bachelor and Master integrated degrees from the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique (CNSM) de Paris in Piano, Piano Accompaniment and a Master’s degree in Applied Music Theory. She also earned her Meisterklassendiplom from the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Munich where she studied with the legendary Elisso Virsaladze. Alongside her career as a performer, she works as a pianist at Elmhurst Ballet School in association with Birmingham Royal Ballet. |
Nicholas Scott-Burt |
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Nicholas Scott-Burt was born in Bristol in 1962, playing the piano, composing, and improvising by ear from a very early age. He wrote and produced three “operas” whilst still at primary school, performed by him and a few bemused classmates in the school hall; but the work he was eventually happy to call his Opus 1 was an organ sonata, written in 1980 when he was 17 years old.
He studied music at the University of Bristol, where his teachers included Raymond Warren, Derek Bourgeois, Adrian Beaumont and Robert Saxton – “making me a second generation pupil of Tippett, Howells, Nadia Boulanger and Luciano Berio – quite an eclectic mix!” – gaining Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees, and 20 years later returning for a PhD. He was a school Director of Music in his early career, since when he has been variously a church musician, choral and orchestral conductor, organist, accompanist, jazz pianist, teacher and examiner. His music ranges from pop songs to symphonic scores, much choral and church music, a violin concerto, a chamber concerto for flute and harp, and a Sinfonietta: The Western Cape, composed in 2024 for the Cape Town and Stellenbosch Youth Orchestras. Of his musical style, he says: “There are three main primary colours, but myriad shades between them. They are neo-classicism (new wine in old bottles), postmodernism (old wine in new bottles), and jazz (never mind the bottles, just drink the wine).” |
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