Chloe Moon ( Eng. Chloe Mun - Clown Moon , also performing under the real name Moon Jiyeon , Eng. Ji-Yeong Mun , cor. 문지영 ; born December 19, 1995 , Yeosu ) is a South Korean pianist.
She started playing piano at the age of five. She grew up in a family with both parents with disabilities, because of which she was forced to leave the secondary school for financial reasons in order to be able to study music; passed general exams externally. Since 2009, she has been studying under the supervision of Kim Tae Jin , currently a student at the Korean National University of the Arts .
Laureate of a number of international competitions, including the most important: in 2014 she won the International Piano Competition in Takamatsu and the International Competition of Performers in Geneva , in 2015 - the Busoni Piano Competition .
After European competition successes, she performed in a number of prestigious concert halls, including the Leipzig Gewandhaus .
Links
- Biography on the website of the Busoni International Piano Competition