2024-05-01

Who?! Series21

Left-Handed Pianist, Lee Hoon

 

Left-Handed Pianist, Lee Hoon (Male, Pianist, Physical Disability)


Lee Hoon is a left-handed pianist.
While attending Sunhwa Arts High School, he went to Germany and continued his studies at the The Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg. He has won awards at the Le Muse Competition and the Terme AMA Calabria Competition in Italy.
In 2012, while working on his doctoral dissertation at the University of Cincinnati in the United States, he suffered a stroke which resulted in right-side paralysis and language disorders. Since 2016, he has been performing solo concerts and engaging in various musical activities as a left-handed pianist.