MARTHA ARGERICH
“Shin-Heae Kang is a magnificent pianist. She has all the qualities, superb technique, serious and devoted musicianship, very big repertoire. I strongly recommend her to your attention.”
BBC RADIO 3
“A truly brilliant conversation between two pianists and the orchestra – Poulenc´s Concerto for Two Pianos performed by Martha Argerich and Shin-Heae Kang with the NDR Radio Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Andrew Manze…An encore from Martha Argerich and Shin-Heae Kang getting the audience in the Kuppelsaal swaying to the rhythms of Milhaud’s Brazileira…The most delicate and charming of Sugar Plum Fairies”
RADIO BREMEN
“On her new Liszt album, Shin-Heae Kang can be experienced not only as a melodically sensitive poet at the piano, but also as a fearless virtuoso with great piano technique.”
NDR KULTUR
“The musicality is absolutely impressive. Shin-Heae Kang understands how to show the idea behind every piece. Each bar breathes great experience, sense of style and deep humanity. She puts all her technical mastery into the service of a coherent dramaturgy and exposes facets in the music that are often overlaid by virtuosity in other interpretations.”
KLASSIK HEUTE
“This is followed by a cleverly thought-out selection of pieces in this project which is ideally suited to tell a musical “story” in the best sense. Because this is it exactly what the interpretation of this pianist achieves the whole time. At every moment Shin-Heae Kang devotes lots of attention into permeating clarity and unconditional empathy for conditions of moods. Shin Heae Kang’s interpretation sensitively puts the figurations in a silvery sheen that sparkles but never dazzles which savors wonderfully lightfootedly and with pointed accent all of the pianistic possibilities.”
HANNOVERSCHE ALLGEMEINE ZEITUNG
“A modest multi talent”
DEUTSCHLANDFUNK KULTUR
“The pianist Shin-Heae Kang is not content with depicting the ascent on the ladder of virtuosity from variation to variation quickly and smartly, but she gives the well-known brilliant piece a noble, quickwitted basic tone from which all kinds of coloured fireworks can be fired.”
PIANO NEWS
“In addition to virtuosity, her playing is also simply exemplary in emotionally expressive pieces. When all the various harmonies are working together, the pianist succeeds in squaring the circle: they appear precisely defined, but at the same time they are blending into each other in infinite shades. A versatile and extremely impressive recording!”
PIZZICATO
“In an all-Liszt program, she has technically everything to play virtuoso and musically the intelligence to subordinate virtuosity to the service of music. That makes her performance so special.”
MUSIC WEB INTERNATIONAL
“This is a super performance of a splendid piece by a spectacularly talented pianist. I have a new favourite recording of this work! I would definitely put this as one of the top Liszt recordings that I have heard over the last couple of years. There is some utterly beautiful and intelligent playing here, and some splendid virtuosity. Ms. Kang certainly deserves the attention that she has received, and is clearly an artist to watch out for.”
LANDESZEITUNG LÜNEBURG
“Shin-Heae Kang has dedicated her album entirely to Franz Liszt and discovers the whole spectrum of human emotions. She succeeds in the decisive aspects, namely taking out the pure bravura of the pieces with high virtuoso demands and permeating deeper into the works.”
KIELER NACHRICHTEN
“In addition to the delicately revealed poetry in Liszt’s third Liebestraum or in his transcription of Schumann’s Widmung, the narrative expressiveness with which the Dante sonata from the Années de Pèlerinage: 2ème année: Italie is balanced between hell and heaven is especially thrilling. The piano sound is wonderfully earthy and full-sounding, the melody lines appear elegantly sung. The highly virtuoso etudes which stimulate some pianists to circus caprioles and technical selfexpression rather than to making music, reveal everywhere the thematic core under her hands and sound plastic and beautiful.”
GRAMOPHONE
“Shin-Heae Kang impresses as a pianist of considerable technical accomplishment, intent on placing a personal stamp on everything she plays.”
O-TON
“She has chosen the program with care. It could have been a suggestion from her mentor Martha Argerich, the album has turned out so well that you can hear it from beginning to end the whole day. That’s how a debut album has to be!”
MAIN-POST
Festival Kissinger Sommer Recital Debut
“The potential for a very great personality – Amazing, with which accuracy Shin-Heae Kang knew here, to bring out profiled melody and sound lines with the left hand in the complex part of the whole-tone and chromatic weaves, in which Tristan chords are repeatedly sounding (…) next to those sections in which the artist extracted out the throbbing sound of repetitions of the recurrent main themes with impressive straightforwardness, she always understood it very well to find different contours in the lyrical parts”
DIE WELT
“Star of this evening was the pianist Shin-Heae Kang, who has won numerous music awards. Born in Kiel to Korean parents Shin-Heae Kang teared the audience literally from their seats with her brilliant performance”
HAMBURGER ABENDBLATT
“A highly gifted Kieler Sprotte”
NIEDERSÄCHSISCHES TAGEBLATT
“She dominates the instrument completely. It is as it would be a part of herself.”
SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEINISCHE LANDESZEITUNG
Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival Recital Debut
“On the way to a world career – From cautious shyness and reverence to a pianistic Whirlwind Shin-Heae Kang showed her development from a child prodigy to a mature pianist. Born in Kiel to Korean parents where she also grew up, and after first studies at the University for Music in Lübeck she is a real Schleswig-Holstein child on her way to a world career (…) Shin-Heae Kang showed a brilliant masterly control and mastery of music and technique (…) Shin-Heae Kang has been developing to a fury on the piano during the evening”
KIELER NACHRICHTEN
Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival Recital Debut
“Now Shin-Heae Kang, born 1987 in Kiel and living near to Kiel gave her successful festival debut in the Thormann Hall which was totally sold out (…) dancing- , ironic-, expressive-skills and formal farsightedness are forming a beautiful symbiosis in her interpretation. The furious 7/8-bar-finals was increasing intelligently as well as vehemently to an explosive end – a real master performance!”
MARIINSKY THEATRE MAGAZINE ST.PETERSBURG
Mariinsky International Piano Festival Recital Debut
“The Debutante of the Festival the young pianist Shin-Heae Kang performed pieces by Liszt and Schumann with the utmost professionalism (…) and she proved all qualities for a great concert career”
PIANO FORUM MAGAZINE MOSCOW
Mariinsky International Piano Festival Recital Debut
“With an inborned musical talent and a very versatile training and education she has received in Germany, Kang performed the program highly professional, with a very pleasant sound, without exceeding the dynamic limits ever. This requires by an artist in specific acoustic circumstances of a concert hall especially big stage experience and the tools of the skills”
DITHMARSCHER LANDESZEITUNG
“She does not look like this. And her name does not sound like this. But she is a true North German – the pianist Shin-Heae Kang (…) The reputation of her pianistic giftedness was apparently preceded her, because visitors from all over Schleswig-Holstein were coming to Heide to listen to her performance (…) took the audience into a world of classical poetry full of sound colors, which one rarely gets to listen”
KIELER NACHRICHTEN
“An Appassionata with a passionate glow – (…) Kang showed the full range of her high and unsurpassable virtuosity. In a breathtaking speed and great dexterity of the finger she swept over the keys and ignited in each individual study a performance of an intensive and dynamic clenched awareness with an almost frightening power”
NIEDERSÄCHSISCHES TAGEBLATT
“With powerful slaps she drove over the keys to the finals and led sound the piece out in chords like chiselled”
FLENSBURGER TAGEBLATT and SCHLESWIGER NACHRICHTEN
“Above all the most fascinating item is the forming bandwidth, the artist is mastering. Powerful gripping, but also delicate and restrained; the diversity of expression seems to be unlimited. The young pianist performed with great passion, greatness, high virtuosity, put different emphases, but always being committed to the piece”
GLINDER ZEITUNG
“A symbiosis between the instrument and the master”
KIELER NACHRICHTEN
“With Schubert, Schumann and Brahms she obviously seems to be good friends”
GUBENER TAGESZEITUNG
“A unique experience with an extraordinary artist”
NIEDERSÄCHSISCHES TAGEBLATT
“Shin-Heae Kang plays Liszt – and the audience is thrilled and amazed, witness of something incredible, it can listen to it and yes, when it sits in a good position, it can even see the magical hands over the keys”
LAUSITZER RUNDSCHAU
“Great moment of piano music – A magnificent recital, in which the intensity and depth of a polished performance achieved a great light- and persuasiveness. Amazing how the aspiring artist was living in and with the sounds and how she was achieving her absolute pianistic highlights conveying these to the audience, when she expressed and showed the core and the deepest of the music outwards being indulged in the melodious sound”
FROM THE BOOK – THE DRUID ORDER IN CENTRAL EUROPE
“Meanwhile, the Big Lodge of Schleswig-Holstein handed over the price of the Druid Order to the 19-year-old pianist Shin-Heae Kang for highly qualified and in very exceptional dimensions willed and committed offspring for her previous extraordinary performances as a talented pianist, who was not only receiving attention for her excellent public performances, but who is also already receiving the highest recognition from the world of musical experts”
KIELER NACHRICHTEN
“For the pianistic merciless piece she had not only nerves of steel. No, she made the audience simply forgetting how devilishly difficult the pianistic matter is. Fearlessly she took the dodgy sixths, octaves and jump passages in attack, turning these into demonic swing, drowned the voices in repetitions from new views and immersed herself so strongly into the intimate variations that you were forgetting yourself and your convictions during her Brahms-Performance”
HUSUMER NACHRICHTEN
“Shin-Heae Kang paired virtuosity with high musical expressiveness”
MAIN-ECHO
Festival Kissinger Sommer Recital Debut
“(…) inspired the audience with an amazing range of timbres and sound colors in virtuos brilliant pieces”