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Hyewon
Alice Ryu is a founder of WeSingHope, pianist, and teacher who wants to
leverage her education, musical skills, and passion in transformative
projects to restore hope among the communities.
She
began studying piano at the age of eight. At the age of thirteen, she
was admitted to the Yewon Art School in Seoul, soon she made her debut
in Seoul with Romanian National Symphony Orchestra at the Little Angels
Art Center. Since then, she has performed as a soloist, recitalist, and
chamber musician all over the world including Korea, Japan, Thailand,
China, France, Italy, and the USA. She has performed often in solo and
chamber recitals in the country’s main concert halls, such as
Steinway Hall, Stoughton Opera House, Shriver Hall, Friedberg Hall,
Griswold Hall, Little Angels Art Center, Kumho Art Hall, Buam Art Hall,
Concert Hall at Kookmin University and Suncheon National University, as
well as with prestigious orchestras such as Korea Philharmonic Symphony
Orchestra, Gunpo Prime Philharmonic Orchestra, and Romanian National
Orchestra. She has performed in the Young Artist Concert Series
sponsored by the Ewon Cultural Foundation, at the Friedberg hall
Thursday Noon Concert Series, Peabody Institute Johns Hopkins
University Alumni Chamber Concert Series at the Shriver Hall, as well
as Chamber Recital at the Embassy of the Republic of Korea in
Washington D.C. She also performed at various music summer festivals,
including Courchevel Music Festival, France, Chautauqua Music Festival,
NY, Quingdao China-Korea International Festival, Tong-Il Han Institute
of Piano Festival in Seoul, Japan, and Thailand, as well as Classical
Bridge Music Academy and Festival, NY.
She
has been awarded many prizes, including the prize at Russel C.
Wonderlic Piano Competition, Baltimore Music Club Competition,
Joong-Ang University Piano Competition, Samick-Bernstein Piano
Competition, An-yang University Piano Competition, and Buam Art Center
Music Competition, Korea Philharmonic Orchestra Competition, in
addition to many other awards. She studied with some of the
world’s respected pianists and pedagogues, among them Yong Hi
Moon, and Tong-Il Han, and appeared in various Masterclasses and
coaching by Leon Fleisher, Ellen Mack, and Alexander Shtarkman. Hyewon
earned her Bachelor’s degree in Piano Performance at Yonsei
University in Korea and completed a Master’s degree and a
Doctoral degree at the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins
University.
In
WeSingHope, she especially works with a passion and dream to bring the
healing power of music to the underprivileged children in Maryland and
DC areas by planning transformative musical and educational projects to
inspire them. She loves cooking delicious food for family and friends,
traveling to places where awe-inspiring nature is found, and playing
with her adorable baby boy, Samuel, and her husband, Kenneth.
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