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白建宇 Kun-Woo PAIK

白建宇出生於首爾。他10歲時首度登台，與韓國國立管弦樂團合作演出愛德華·葛利格的《鋼琴協奏曲》。隨後的幾年裡，他在韓國演出了許多重要作品，其中包括多部首演曲目，例如穆索斯基的《展覽會之畫》。之後，他前往紐約（茱莉亞音樂學院）、倫敦以及義大利深造，師從羅西娜·列文涅、伊洛娜·卡博斯、圭多·阿戈斯蒂和威廉·肯普夫。白建宇也是瑙姆堡國際鋼琴比賽和布梭尼國際鋼琴比賽的得獎者。

多年來，白建宇曾在林肯中心、卡內基音樂廳、威格摩爾音樂廳和柏林愛樂廳等重要音樂中心舉辦獨奏會。他也曾與多個樂團合作演出，包括倫敦交響樂團、BBC交響樂團（1987年逍遙音樂會最後一夜）、匹茲堡交響樂團、俄羅斯國家管弦樂團、聖彼得堡愛樂樂團、巴黎管弦樂團、法國國家管弦樂團、巴黎管弦樂合奏團、都靈義大利廣播電視公司樂團、華沙愛樂樂團、英國室內樂團以及波蘭國家廣播交響樂團等，指揮家包括馬里斯·楊頌斯、尼維爾·馬利納爵士、勞倫斯·福斯特、米哈伊爾·普雷特涅夫、德米特里·基塔延科、詹姆斯·康隆、約翰·尼爾森和伊利亞胡·殷巴爾。白建宇也是各大音樂節的常客，如柏林藝術節、普羅旺斯艾克斯音樂節、拉羅克當泰龍鋼琴音樂節、科爾馬音樂節、斯波萊托音樂節、奧爾德堡音樂節、「Mostly Mozart」音樂節和拉維尼亞音樂節，並曾在澳洲、紐西蘭、亞洲和義大利各地廣泛巡演。

他的曲目非常多元，包含一些罕見作品，如布梭尼的《鋼琴協奏曲》、佛瑞的《鋼琴與管弦樂團幻想曲》以及李斯特基於白遼士《雷里奧》主題的幻想曲。白建宇也演奏了大量李斯特和白遼士的改編曲，並是姜碩熙鋼琴協奏曲的題獻對象。 白建宇先生曾與安東尼·維特／波蘭廣播交響樂團為RCA錄製普羅科菲耶夫鋼琴協奏曲全集（1993年獲法國《音叉》雜誌金音叉獎），與弗拉基米爾·費多謝耶夫／莫斯科廣播交響樂團錄製拉赫曼尼諾夫鋼琴協奏曲全集（BMG），以及多張史克里亞賓、李斯特、穆索斯基、拉赫曼尼諾夫、孟德爾頌鋼琴作品的獨奏專輯。2000年，他與迪卡唱片（Decca Classics）簽訂了獨家錄音合約。首張發行作品為費魯喬·布梭尼改編的J.S.巴哈管風琴作品鋼琴版。2005年至2007年間，迪卡為白建宇錄製了路德維希·范·貝多芬鋼琴奏鳴曲全集。

白建宇定居巴黎，擔任法國迪納爾翡翠海岸音樂節的藝術總監，並於2000年獲法國政府授予「藝術與文學騎士勳章」。2000年9月，他成為首位獲官方邀請赴中國演出的韓國藝術家。   

白建宇自1974年起與妻子、演員尹靜姬定居法國巴黎。尹靜姬是1960年代末的明星，與文姬、南貞姙並稱為韓國新聞媒體所稱的「第一代三巨頭」，三位女演員曾是競爭對手。這對夫婦育有一女，為小提琴家。

Kun Woo Paik was born in Seoul. He gave his first concert, aged 10, with the Korean National Orchestra, playing Edvard Grieg's Piano Concerto. In the following years he performed many important works in Korea, including several premieres such as Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition. Later he studied in New York (Juilliard School), London, and in Italy with Rosina Lhevinne, Ilona Kabos, Guido Agosti and Wilhelm Kempff. Kun Woo Paik is also a laureate of the Naumburg and Busoni International Piano Competitions.

Over the years Kun Woo Paik has performed recitals in major musical centres such as the Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, Wigmore Hall and Berlin Philharmonie. He has also performed with such orchestras as the London Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Symphony Orchestra (Last Night of the Proms 1987), Pittsburgh Symphony, Russian National Orchestra, Saint Petersburg Philharmonic, Orchestre de Paris, Orchestre National de France, Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, Rai Torino, Warsaw Philharmonic, English Chamber Orchestra and Polish National Radio Orchestra, with such conductors as Mariss Jansons, Sir Neville Marriner, Lawrence Foster, Mikhail Pletnev, Dmitri Kitajenko, James Conlon, John Nelson and Eliahu Inbal. Kun Woo Paik is also a regular guest artist at major music festivals such as the Berlin Festwochen, Aix-en-Provence, La Roque d'Antheron, Colmar, Spoleto, Aldeburgh, "Mostly Mozart" and Ravinia Festivals, and has toured extensively in Australia, New Zealand, Asia and Italy.

His repertoire is very varied and comprises such rare works as Busoni's piano concerto, Fauré's Fantasy for piano and orchestra and Liszt's Fantasy on themes from Berlioz's Lelio. Kun Woo Paik also performs a wide selection of transcriptions by Liszt and Berlioz and is the dedicatee of Suk-Hi Kang's piano concerto.

Mr Paik has recorded the complete Prokofiev piano concertos with Antoni Wit/Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra for RCA (Diapason d'or in 1993), the complete Rachmaninoff piano concertos with Vladimir Fedoseyev / Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra (BMG), as well as several solo CDs of Scriabin, Liszt, Mussorgsky, Rachmaninoff, Mendelssohn piano music. In 2000 he signed an exclusive recording contract with Decca Classics. His first release featured the piano transcriptions of the organ works of J.S. Bach made by Ferrucio Busoni. Between 2005 and 2007, Decca recorded Paik in the complete piano sonatas of Ludwig van Beethoven.

Kun Woo Paik lives in Paris, is the Artistic Director of the Emerald Coast Music Festival in Dinard (France) and was made "Chevalier de l'ordre des arts et des lettres" by the French Government in 2000. In September 2000 he was the first Korean artist to be officially invited to perform in China.

Paik has resided in Paris, France with his wife, actress Yoon Jeong-hee since 1974. Yoon is a star of the late 1960s commonly referred to as one of "The First Troika" by the South Korean news media, along with other two actresses in rivalry, Moon Hee, and Nam Jeong-im. The couple has a daughter who is a violinist.