Heasook Rhee, a piano accompanying and piano chamber music faculty member at the Manhattan School of Music in New York City has worked with many distinguished artists, including tenor Nikolai Gedda, bass Kwangchul Youn, bass-baritones Simon Estes, Lucio K. Cho, baritone Hans Choi, soprano Youngok Shin, mezzo soprano Chungja Kim, violinists Kyung Wha Chung, Ivry Gitlis, Ilya Grubert, the late Mitchell Stern, Peter Zazofsky, cellists Marcio Carneiro, Charles Curtis, Karine Georgian, Ralph Kirshbaum, the late Samuel Mayes, Nathaniel Rosen, Andrey Tchekmazov, Jian Wang, Tilmann Wick, flutist the late Julius Baker, French horn player Will Sanders.
She has toured in the United States; performing at the Stern Auditorium at the Carnegie Hall, Weill Recital Hall, Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center, New York; Los Angeles, Boston, Washington D.C., Ann Arbor and numerous cities in the US. In Germany, she performed at major venues such as the Berliner Festwochen, Schauspielhaus in Berlin, Residenz in Munich, Alte Oper in Frankfurt, Beethovenhaus in Bonn, Regensburg, Dortmund, Weilburg Festival, Hannover and Baden-Baden. Tours in Europe included St. John's Smith Square in London, Salle Gaveau in Paris, San Sebastian Quincena Musical, Spain, Tonhalle in Zurich, Switzerland, Italy, Belgium and Norway. She also performed in New Zealand, Australia, Central America, Canada, Cuernavaca Festival Musical in Mexico, North African countries, Hong Kong and Korea. Ms. Rhee was Congress Pianist at the 1984, 1990 American Cello Congress in Tempe, Arizona and accompanist for six consecutive Piatigorsky Seminars in Los Angeles.
Her concerts have been broadcast on NDR, SDR, BR, SR and SWF in Germany, DRS in Zurich, WGBH, WNYC, and WGTS, Washington, DC. Ms. Rhee's CD, with cellist Tilmann Wick was released on the German label MD+G; it is entitled "Cello Sonatas of 1948".
Ms. Rhee, the highest honour graduate of Seoul National University, studied with Jacob Lateiner, Rosina Lhevinne, Samuel Sanders at the Juilliard School. She received her doctorate in Piano Chamber Music and Accompanying studying with Eugene Bossart at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
Since 1998, she has been a faculty member for piano accompanying and chamber music at the Manhattan School of Music, and taught at the University of Texas at Austin (1993 to 1998), Detmold Musikhochschule (1996) and has given master classes in France, Austria, Germany, China, Japan, Korea, the Quartet Program in Pennsylvania and the Icicle Creek Chamber Music Program.
Her students are winning or gaining places in duo competitions, and those who have graduated from her class are either freelancing successfully as accompanists or have found teaching positions for piano accompanying. She gives master classes and lectures on instrumental accompanying at numerous universities.
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