Competition success for HfMT organist

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Sunkyung Noh, a student in Prof. Wolfgang Zerer's organ class, has won 2nd prize at the International Organ Competition in Alkmaar, the Netherlands

Sunkyung Noh was born in Ulsan (South Korea) in 1994. Here she received her first organ lessons at Ulsan Arts High School. After her junior year, she studied at Yonsei University in Seoul with Prof. Dong-ill Shin and completed her bachelor's degree in 2017.

Since fall 2018, she has been studying organ and claviorganum with Wolfgang Zerer and harpsichord with Menno Van Delft at the Hamburg University of Music and Drama. She had an Erasmus semester in Groningen in the winter semester 2021/2022 and studied organ with Erwin Wiersinga and improvisation with Sietze de Vries.

Sunkyung Noh has won prizes at numerous national competitions in South Korea and Asia. She received the first prize at the organ competition of the Korean Association of Organist, the 1st prize at the competition of the Catholic University and the 2nd prize at the Asia Organ Competition of the AGO Taiwan Chapter, where she was the youngest finalist. She received scholarships from the Korean Scholarship Foundation and the College of Music Alumni Scholarship from Yonsei University. This time she won the second prize (Felntrop Prize) at The 14th International Schnitger Organ Competition