"Anyone's Classical" Lets You Choose Your Ticket Price: 1,000 to 10,000 Won — Conductor Yeo Jia-kyung and Pianist Kim Kyu-yeon | Curtain Call 336

A conductor who wrote a pledge before giving birth, boarded a plane, and headed for a competition stage. A pianist who used to wake up to the sound of her mother practicing—known as the "godmother of the piano world." These are the stories of Yeo Jia-kyung, music director of the Daejeon Philharmonic Orchestra, and pianist Kim Kyu-yeon, a professor at Seoul National University's College of Music, who will take the stage at the Sejong Center for the Performing Arts' "Anyone's Classical" on November 10. The two first performed together at the 2009 Seoul Arts Center Orchestra Festival, where Yeo Jia-kyung was the first female conductor in the festival's history, and Kim Kyu-yeon performed Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4 for the first time on that stage. They have since collaborated on numerous occasions.

From the majestic Norwegian nature captured in Grieg's piano concerto, which he revised throughout his life, to Rachmaninoff's Symphony No. 2, which soothes the heart like an ointment on a wound, and the significance of the "Anyone's Classical" concert where audience members can freely choose to pay anywhere from 1,000 to 10,000 won for their tickets—we chat with these two artists, who boast a special chemistry.

♪ Grieg: Piano Concerto, 1st Movement - Pianist Kim Kyu-yeon & Hankyung Philharmonia (Courtesy of Hyundai Motor Chung Mong-koo Foundation)
♪ Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 2, 3rd Movement - Conducted by Yeo Jia-kyung, Gangnam Symphony Orchestra (Courtesy of Seoul Arts Center)
♪ Scriabin: 5 Preludes, Op. 16 - No. 1 in B Major (Courtesy of Tomato Classic)
♪ Holst: Orchestral Suite "The Planets" - "Uranus, the Magician" (Courtesy of Daejeon Philharmonic Orchestra)

[Host]: Kim Soo-hyun (SBS Senior Culture Reporter), Lee Byung-hee (Announcer) | [Guest]: Conductor Yeo Jia-kyung, Pianist Kim Kyu-yeon | [Recording & Production]: Yoo Kyu-yeon | [Video Editing]: Jung Yong-hee

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