Kim Hanul was born in Seoul, South Korea in 2001 where he started playing piano at the age of six. After graduating Sunhwa Arts Middle, High School and Korean National Institute for the Gifted in Arts, Hanul is currently taking his undergraduate studies at the Korean National University of Arts in Seoul.
Since making his debut recital at Kumho Art Hall in Seoul at aged 14, he has won many of South Korea’s prestigious piano competitions for young pianists. In 2018 Hanul won the famed biennial Steinway & Sons Piano Competition for Young Artists in South Korea. Subsequent to this, he won the 2nd Prize at the Steinway & Sons Asia-Pacific Regional Finals held in Taipei, Taiwan. In 2019, Hanul was invited to play at the New Zealand Embassy in Seoul, South Korea.
He has also received masterclasses from pianists such as John O’Conor, Antonii Baryshevskyi, Oxana Yablonskaya, Jerome Lowenthall and SHIN Soo Jung.
김하늘은 2001년 서울에서 태어나고 6살 때 처음으로 피아노를 배우기 시작했다. 12살때 선화예술중고등학교로 입학하며 한국의 권위있는 피아노 콩쿠르에서 많은 우승을 차지한 후, 14살 금호아트홀에서 첫 데뷔를 갖게됬다. 같은 시기에 한국예술영재원에서 김대진 교수를 만나 학업을 이어나갔으며 현재 그는 한국예술종합학교를 실기 수석으로 입학하고 피아니스트 이유현을 사사중이며 학사과정을 이어나가고 있다.
김하늘은 대한민국의 젊은 예술가들을위해 2년마다 열리는 2018년 Steinway & Sons 피아노 콩쿠르에서 우승했다. 이후, 대만에서 열린 Steinway & Sons 아시아-태평양 지역 결승에서 2위를 했다. 또한, 피아니스트 존 오코너 (아일랜드), 안토니 바리셰프스키 (우크라이나), 옥사나 야블론스카야 (러시아), 제롬 로엔탈 (미국), 신수정 (한국) 으로부터 마스터클래스 지도를 받았다.

jason bae | founder & music director
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Jason Bae is the Founder & Music Director of Afflatus Ensemble and has recently finished his two-year role as the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra Conducting Fellowship Programme Conductor in 2020/21. Jason made his debut in Stockholm, conducting the Aurora Festival Orchestra - presenting the Swedish premiere of "Violent, Violent Sea" by the American composer, Missy Mazzoli. Last year, Jason gave the New Zealand Premiere of Lotta Wennäkoski's "Nosztalgiaim" with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra National Youth Orchestra.
He has received masterclasses with renowned conductors such as Osmo Vänskä with Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, Jorma Panula with South Denmark Philharmonic Orchestra, Kuopio Symphony Orchestra, Vaasa City Orchestra, Hamish McKeich, Miguel Harth-Bedoya, Holly Mathieson and Gemma New with New Zealand Symphony Orchestra.
Formerly trained as a pianist, Jason received his Master of Arts in piano performance with the highest distinction award, 'DipRAM' at the Royal Academy of Music in London studied under the Professor Emeritus Christopher Elton and Joanna MacGregor in 2015. Jason studied orchestral conducting and was mentored by Jukka-Pekka Saraste.
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