Hyuk Namkoong

Hyuk Namkoong

Hyuk Namkoong was born in South Korea and has won international piano awards. He won first prize in the Young Musician of the Gulf, the Best Pianist Award and Most Promising Bahrain-Based Musician Award in 2010. In the same year, he received third prize in the First International Chopin Competition in Kuwait. He also took part in the Second Aegaeon Art International Festival in Greece. In 2014, Hyuk performed in the Winners Concert run by the Crescendo Summer Institute (Hungary). He was also champion of the 2015 New Rising Star Piano Competition in Glasgow. Hyuk completed his undergraduate degree in piano performance at the Royal Academy of Music in 2015 and went to the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland for his Masters (2015-2017). Hyuk was under the tutelage of the famous pianist, Petras Geniušas.

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