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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