A Korean wins Poland’s other piano trophy

A Korean wins Poland’s other piano trophy

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norman lebrecht

November 21, 2016

The youngest entrant in the Ignacy Jan Paderewski International Piano Competition in Bydgoszcz won the first prize last night.

Hyuk Lee, 16, was the youngest in a field of 47. He is a student at the Tchaikovsky Conservatoire in Moscow.

Jakub Kuszlik, from Poland came second and Svetlana Andreyeva, a Russian, third.

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Last year, Seong Jin Cho was the first Korean to win the Chopin Competition in Warsaw.

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