Biography
Richard Hyung-ki Joo is a British-Korean pianist and composer, Grand Prize Winner of the Stravinsky International Piano Competition, he has performed all around the world including venues such as Carnegie Hall, Musikverein, Barbican Hall. Billy Joel chose Joo to arrange and record Joel’s classical piano pieces for the album Fantasies and Delusions.
Born in England, of South Korean parents, Richard Hyung-ki Joo began his formal training in the UK at the Yehudi Menuhin School with Seta Tanyel and Peter Norris and later earned his Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from Manhattan School of Music, where he studied with Nina Svetlanova. Other teachers include Richard Goode and Oleg Maisenberg.
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