High honor for HfMT alumna
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Sunkyung Noh, MA student in Prof. Wolfgang Zerer's HfMT organ class until the summer semester 2022, won 1st prize in the organ category and a special prize at the Mendelssohn Competition.
She is currently completing her concert exam studies at the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University of Music and Drama in Leipzig. In addition to Sunkyung Noh Mitsune Uchidaalso a student in Prof. Wolfgang Zerer's organ class, reached the final of the competition.
Vita
Sunkyung Noh was born in Ulsan (South Korea) in 1994. Here she received her first organ lessons at the 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.
She has been studying organ and claviorganum with Wolfgang Zerer and harpsichord with Menno Van Delft at the Hamburg University of Music and Drama since autumn 2018. 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 awards at numerous national competitions in South Korea and Asia. She won first prize at the Korean Association of Organist Organ Competition, 1st prize at the Catholic University Competition and 2nd prize at the AGO Taiwan Chapter Asia Organ Competition, 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
About the competition
From January 11 to 15, the participants in the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University Competition 2023 competed in the fields of cello and organ. We were able to recruit Prof. Tanja Tetzlaff and cathedral organist Sebastian Küchler-Blessing to chair the two juries. The organ competition will be held in the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church in Berlin.