Sung-Won Yang is a South Korean cellist who performs worldwide as a soloist and as a chamber musician. He studied with Philippe Muller and Janos Starker, and graduated from the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris.
He has collaborated with many musicians such as Christoph Eschenbach, MyungWhun Chung, Peter Eötvös, Johannes Kalitzke, Laurent Petitgirard, and Pascal Devoyon.
Since 2009, he is a founding member of the Trio Owon with violinist Olivier Charlier and pianist Emmanuel Strosser.
He is also a regular concert and recording partner of pianist Enrico Pace, with whom he has recorded the complete cello/piano sonatas of Beethoven, Schumann, and Brahms.
His all-Kodály debut album was chosen as Editor's Choice of the month by Gramophone Magazine and a Critic's Choice of the year by Gramophone. He has also recorded works by Rachmaninoff, Chopin and Liszt, Bach, Beethoven, Dvorák, Elgar and Schumann for EMI and Universal Music / Decca.
In 2010 he recorded the Dvořák Cello Concerto with the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Znedek Macal.
In 2017 he recorded the Bach Cello Suites.
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