Profiles of Festival Artists 2011

Seol-Hwa Kim at the Chiang Mai Music Festival for Seasons

Seol-Hwa Kim has performed at Chiang Mai Music Festival since she was thirteen and now returns for her fourth visit at age seventeen, opening this year's Festival with her full piano recital. She has just completed her studies at Sun-Hwa Arts High School and has been a student of Professors Min-Sook Chun and Tong-Il Han. She is a prize winner of many piano competitions and the years 2009-2010 alone include the 2009 Osaka International Competition first prize, TBC Competition second prize, and International Student Music Competition first prize. January 2010 brought her Vienna debut at Bosendorfer Hall.