By winning the 66th ARD International Music Competition in Munich 2017 (Second Prize ex-aequo, BR Klassik Online Prize, No first prize was given)
Kyeong Ham has established himself as one of the most engaging and outstanding oboist of his generation.
He started playing the oboe in Seoul where he grew up. At the age of 15 he relocated to Germany to pursue his studies with Nicholas Daniel at the Staatliche Hochschule fรผr Musik Trossingen. and later at the Hochschule fรผr Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin with Dominik Wollenweber. at the age of 20 he became a Scholarship holder of the Herbert von Karajan Academy of Berlin Philharmonic where he was taught by Jonathan Kelly.
His talent and endeavour in oboe were proven with numerous prizes, including his stunning First Prizes at the Richard Lauschmann International Oboe Competition in Mannheim (2009), Tchaikovsky Conservatory International Winds and Percussion Competition in Moscow (2010), Iris Marquardt Prize (2010), International Academic Oboe and Bassoon Competition in Lรณdz, Poland (2011). In April 2013 Kyeong Ham was named the winner at the Muri International Oboe Competition in Switzerland, where he received not only First Prize but also Audience Prize from the impressive margin in the final round, and the Heinz Holliger Special Prize from Holliger himself.
2017๋ ์ 66ํ ๋ฎํจ ARD ๊ตญ์ ์ฝฉ์ฟ ๋ฅด๋ฅผ ์๊ถํ๋ฉฐ (1์ ์๋ ๊ณต๋ 2์, BR Klassik ์) ๊ทธ๋์ ์ทจ์ฝํ๋ค๊ณ ํ๊ฐ๋ฐ๋ ํ๊ตญ ๊ด์ ์ฃผ์๋ค ์ฌ์ด์์ ์๋ก์ด ํจ๋ฌ๋ค์์ ์ผ์ผ์ผฐ๋ค. ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋๋ผ๋ฅผ ๋์ด ์ ๋ฝ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ ์ธ๊ณ๋ฅผ ๋ฌด๋ ์ผ์ ํ๋ฐํ ํ๋ํ๋ฉฐ ๋ ๋ณด์ ์ธ ์์ ์ธ๊ณ๋ฅผ ๊ตฌ์ถํ๊ณ ์๋ค.
ํจ๊ฒฝ์ ์ค๋ฌผ์ ์ ๋์ด๋ก ์ธ๊ณ ์ต์ ์ ์ ๋จ, ๋ค๋๋๋ ์์คํ ๋ฅด๋ด ๋ก์ ์ฝ์ธ๋ฅดํธํค๋ณด์ฐ (RCO) ์ค์ผ์คํธ๋ผ์ ๋จ์์ผ๋ก ๋ฐํ๋์ด ๋ ์์ฆ ๋์ ๋ด์ ์นด๋ค๊ธฐํ, ์์ฑํด D.C ์ผ๋ค๋ ์ผํฐ, ๋์ฟ ์ฐํ ๋ฆฌํ, ๋ฐ๋ ๋ก์ ์๋ฒํธํ, ํ๋ฆฌ ํํ๋ชจ๋ ๋ฑ ์ธ๊ณ ์ ์์ ๊ณต์ฐ์ฅ์์ ์ต๊ณ ์ ์งํ์๋ค๊ณผ ํจ๊ป ๋ฌด๋์ ์ค๋ฅด๋ฉฐ ์๋ง์ ์ค์ผ์คํธ๋ผ์์ ๋ค์ํ ๊ฒฝํ์ ์์๋ค.
๊ทธ๋ ์ด๋ฏธ ๋ง 20์ธ ๋์ด๋ก ๋ฒ ๋ฅผ๋ฆฐ ํํ๋ชจ๋ ์ค์ผ์คํธ๋ผ ์นด๋ผ์ ์์นด๋ฐ๋ฏธ ์ค๋์ ์ ๋ฝํ 2๋ ๋์ ์ค๋ณด์ ์์ ์กฐ๋๋จ ์ผ๋ฆฌ์๊ฒ ๋ฉํ ๋ง์ ๋ฐ์์ผ๋ฉฐ 22์ธ์๋ ๋ ์ผ ๋ช ๋ฌธ ํ๋ ธ๋ฒ ์คํ๋ผ ๊ทน์ฅ์ ์์์ผ๋ก ๋ฐํ๋๋ฉฐ ํ์ ๋ฅผ ๋ชจ์ผ๊ธฐ๋ ํ๋ค. ์์ธ์๊ณ ์ฌํ ์ค ๋ง 15์ธ ๋์ด๋ก ๋ ์ผ ํธ๋ก์ฑ์ ์์ ๋ํ์ ์ ํํด ๋์ฝ๋ผ์ค ๋ค๋์ ๋ฌธํ์์ ๊ณต๋ถํ ์ดํ ๋ฒ ๋ฅผ๋ฆฐ ํ์ค ์์ด์ฌ๋ฌ ์์ ๋ํ์์ ๋๋ฏธ๋ ๋ณผ๋ ๋ฒ ๋ฒ์๊ฒ ์ฌ์ฌ ๋ฐ์ ๊ทธ๋, 2009๋ ๋ ์ผ ๋งํ์ ๋ฆฌํ๋ฅดํธ ๋ผ์ฐ์ฌ๋ง ๊ตญ์ ์ค๋ณด์ ์ฝฉ์ฟ ๋ฅด 1์, 2010๋ ์ด๋ฆฌ์ค-๋ง๋ฅดํฌ ๋ฐ๋ฅดํธ ๊ตญ์ ์ฝฉ์ฟ ๋ฅด 1์, ์ ๋ ์ผ ์์ ๋ํ ์ฝฉ์ฟ ๋ฅด 2์, ๋ฌ์์ ๋ชจ์คํฌ๋ฐ ์ฐจ์ด์ฝฅ์คํค ์ฝ์๋ฐํ ๋ฆฌ ๊ตญ์ ๊ดํ์ ์ฝฉ์ฟ ๋ฅด 1์ ๋ฐ ํ๋์์ ์ต๊ณ ํด์์, 2011๋ ํด๋๋ ๋ก์ทจ ๊ตญ์ ์ค๋ณด์ ์ฝฉ์ฟ ๋ฅด 1์, 2013๋ ์ค์์ค ๋ฌด๋ฆฌ ๊ตญ์ ์ค๋ณด์ ๋ฐ์ ์ฝฉ์ฟ ๋ฅด 1์ ๋ฐ ์ฒญ์ค์ ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ ์ค์ ์ธ ์ค๋ณด์ด์คํธ, ํ์ธ์ธ ํ๋ฆฌ๊ฑฐ๊ฐ ์ ์ ํ ํ์ธ์ธ ํ๋ฆฌ๊ฑฐ ํน๋ณ์๊น์ง ์พ๊ฑฐ๋ฅผ ์ด๋ค๋ด๋ฉฐ ์์ด์ฝ๋ํ ์กด์ฌ๊ฐ์ ๋๋ฌ๋๋ค. ์กฐ์ฑํ, ๋ฆฌ์ ์ฝ์ผ๋ง, ๋ฆฌ์นด๋ฅด๋ ์ค๋ฐ, ๊นํ๊ณผ ํจ๊ป ํ๋ ๋ฐ์ด์ธ ํธํ ์ ์ฐฝ๋จ ๋ฉค๋ฒ๋ก 2015๋ ๋ด๋งํฌ ์นผ ๋์ผ ๊ตญ์ ์ค๋ด์ ์ฝฉ์ฟ ๋ฅด ์ค์ฐ์น์ ์ค๋ฅด๋ฉฐ ๊ตญ๋ด์ธ ๊ด์ ๊ณ์ ํฐ ํ์ ๋ฅผ ๋ชจ์ผ๊ธฐ๋ ํ๋ค.
As soloist, Kyeong has appeared with Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Munich Chamber Orchestra, Kuopio Symphony Orchestra, Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, Gyeonggi Philharmonic, Bucheon Philharmonic, Gauteng Philharmonic Moscow Chamber Orchestra, Baden-Baden Philharmonie, Argovia Philharmonic, Ensemble CHAART.
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In the 2020/21 season Kyeong appeared as soloist twice with his own Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Performing Bach oboe concerto led by Kreeta-Maria Kentala and gave the world premiere of oboe concerto `Incandesceceยด by Maija Hynninen. In 2023 in the Haydnโs Sinfonia Concertante and Olivier Messiaenโs Concert ร quatre with his colleagues. In 2024-25 season he played the B.A.Zimmermann concerto with FRSOโs current chief conductor Nicholas Collon.
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He is also frequently asked to play as guest principal oboist with many European leading orchestras, such as Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Budapest Festival Orchestra, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Munich Philharmonic, Bamberg Symphony, Rotterdam Philharmonic, SWR Symphony Orchestra Stuttgart, WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Oslo Philharmonic, Bergen Philharmonic, Malmรถ Symphoniker, Lapland Chamber Orchestra, West Australian Symphony Orchestra.
He is also one of the founding and core member of the Going Home Project in South Korea where he regularly collaborates with amazing fellow musicians. He gave the korean premiere of the Nigel Westlake's Oboe Concerto "Spirit of the Wild" under the baton of Valentin Uryupin.
He has an affinity for chamber music and regularly invited to play at prestige Chamber Music Festivals around the world. such as Kuhmo (Finland), Davos (Switzerland), Ostfriesland (Germany), Molyvos (Greece), Zeven Bruggenkwartier (Netherland). and is a founding member of the Veits Woodwind Quintet, which was awarded Second prize at the Carl Nielsen International Chamber Music Competition in Copenhagen in 2015. the quintet's first recording was released in 2016 on the ARS label.
Kyeong frequently serves on the jury panels of international competitions such as the Muri Competition (Switzerland, 2026), Fernand Gillet-Fox Competiton (USA, 2021), Matthew Ruggiero International Competition (USA, 2018)
Kyeong served as Solo English horn at the Konzerthausorchester Berlin and principal oboe at the State Opera Hannover.
At age 23 Kyeong won the position of second oboe and english horn at the prestige Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam and worked for two seasons which brought him all over the world performing in exciting venues (such as Carnegie Hall in New York, Kennedy Center in Washington DC, Suntory Hall in Tokyo, Royal Albert Hall in London, Philharmonie Paris..etc) under the baton of the greatest conductors.
Currently Kyeong holds the position of 1st Principal Oboe of the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra in Helsinki. and He is also a part time tutor at the Sibelius Academy University of Arts Helsinki.
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He has given masterclass at Guildhall School or Music and Drama London, Musikhochschule Lรผbeck, Austrailian National Academy of Music Melbourne, SUNY Purchase New York, University of Cape Town, University of Pretoria in South Africa.
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His debut Album `TAWOยด with internationally acclaimed pianist Yeoleum Son was released in February 2020 on 7 Mountain Records (features works by Skalkottas, Hindemith, Dorati, Norman, Salonen, Haas)
and his second album BACH (complete W.F.Bach duo and J.S.Bach, C.Ph.E.Bach sonatas ) with acclaimed flutist Sunghyun Cho was released in summer 2023.
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Kyeong is a Marigaux artist and plays M2 oboe.
์๋ฆฌ์คํธ๋ก์ ๋ฐ์ด์๋ฅธ ๋ฐฉ์ก ๊ตํฅ์ ๋จ (BRSO)์ ๋น๋กฏํ์ฌ ์์ธ์๋ฆฝ๊ตํฅ์ ๋จ, ๊ฒฝ๊ธฐํํ๋ชจ๋, ๋ถ์ฒ์๋ฆฝ๊ตํฅ์ ๋จ, ๋ฎํจ ์ฒด์๋ฒ ์ค์ผ์คํธ๋ผ, ๋ชจ์คํฌ๋ฐ ์ฒด์๋ฒ ์ค์ผ์คํธ๋ผ, ๋ ์ผ ๋ฐ๋ด๋ฐ๋ด ํํ๋ชจ๋, ํฐํค ์ด์ฆ๋ฏธ๋ฅด ์ฌํฌ๋, ์ค์์ค ์๋ฅด๊ฐ์ฐ์ด ์ฌํฌ๋, ์์๋ธ ์ฐจ๋ฅดํธ, ๋จ์๊ณต ํ์ฐํ ก ํํ๋ชจ๋ ๋ฑ๊ณผ ํ์ฐํ์์ผ๋ฉฐ. ํ์ฌ ์ํด ์๋ ํ๋๋ ๋ฐฉ์ก ๊ตํฅ์ ๋จ๊ณผ ๋ฐํ์ ์นจ๋จธ๋ง ํ์ฃผ๊ณก, ํ๋๋ ์๊ณก๊ฐ ๋ง์ด์ ํ๋๋จ์ ์ค๋ณด์ ํ์ฃผ๊ณก์ ์ธ๊ณ ์ด์ฐํ์๊ณ , ๋ฉ์์์ ์ฌ์ค์ฃผ ํ์ฃผ๊ณก, ํ์ด๋ ์ ํฌ๋์ ์ฝ์ฒด๋ฅดํํ ๋ฅผ ๋ ์ค๋ฅด๋ ์งํ์ ๋ง์ฌ ์๋ฐ์ผ๋์ฒดํ์ ์งํ๋ก ํ์ฐํ์๋ค. ๋ํ ๋ง๋ฌ ์ฒด์๋ฒ ์ค์ผ์คํธ๋ผ, ์ค์ฝํฐ์ฌ ์ฒด์๋ฒ ์ค์ผ์คํธ๋ผ, ๋ฎํจ ํํ๋ชจ๋, ๋กํ ๋ฅด๋ด ํํ๋ชจ๋, ๋ฐค๋ฒ ๋ฅด๊ทธ ์ฌํฌ๋, SWR, WDR ์ฌํฌ๋, ๋ ธ๋ฅด์จ์ด ๋ฒ ๋ฅด๊ฒ ํํ๋ชจ๋, ๋ถ๋คํ์คํธ ํ์คํฐ๋ฒ ์ค์ผ์คํธ๋ผ, ์๊ตญ BBC ์ฌํฌ๋, ์ํฐ ์ค๋ธ ๋ฒ๋ฐ์ ์ฌํฌ๋ ๋ฑ์ ๊ฐ์ ์์ ์ฐ์ฃผ์๋ก ํ๋ํ์์ผ๋ฉฐ ๋งค๋ ํ๋๋ ์ฟ ํ๋ชจ, ๋ ์ผ ์ค์คํธํ๋ฆฌ์ค๋ํธ, ์์คํ ๋์ ํจ๋ฅด๋ ์๋ฅด๋น ํ์คํฐ๋ฒ, ์ค์์ค ๋ค๋ณด์ค ํ์คํฐ๋ฒ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ์ค ๋ชฐ๋ฆฌ๋ณด์ค ํ์คํฐ๋ฒ ๋ฑ์์ ์ฐ์ฃผ๋ฅผ ๊พธ์คํ ์ด์ด๊ฐ๊ณ ์๋ค. ๋๋ถ์ด ๋ฐ๋ ๊ธธ๋ํ ์์ ๋ํ, ๋ด์์ฃผ๋ฆฝ ๋ํ, ๋ ธ๋ฅด์จ์ด ์ค์ฌ๋ก ์์นด๋ฐ๋ฏธ, ๋ ์ผ ๋คผ๋ฒก์๋, ๋จ์๊ณต ์ผ์ดํํ์ด ์๋, ํธ์ฃผ ๋ฉ๋ฒ๋ฅธ ๊ตญ๋ฆฝ ์์ ์ ๋ฑ์ ์ด์ฒญ์ผ๋ก ๋ง์คํฐ ํด๋์ค๋ฅผ ์งํํ๋ค.
ํจ๊ฒฝ์ ํ์ฌ ํฌ์ฑํค์ ๊ฑฐ์ฃผํ๋ฉฐ ๋ถ์ ๋ฝ ์ต๊ณ ๋ก ๊ผฝํ๋ ํ๋๋ ๋ฐฉ์ก ๊ตํฅ์ ๋จ ์ข ์ ์์ ์ค๋ณด์ด์คํธ๋ก ํ์ฝํ๋ ๋์์ ์๋ฒจ๋ฆฌ์ฐ์ค ์์ ์์์ ํ์๋ค์ ์ง๋ํ๊ณ ์๋ค. 2022๋ ์๋ ํธ์ฃผ ํผ์ค๋ฅผ ๋ฒ ์ด์ค๋ก ์ผ์ ์ํธ์ฃผ์ค์ผ์คํธ๋ผ์ ์์์ผ๋ก ๋ฐํ๋์ด ๋๋ฅ์ ๋๋๋๋ ์์ฑํ ํ๋์ผ๋ก ๋ค์ ํ๋ฒ ์ฃผ๋ชฉ๋ฐ์๋ค.
ํผ์๋์คํธ ์์ด์๊ณผ ํจ๊ปํ ์ ๊ท ๋ฐ๋ท ์จ๋ฒ <ํ๋ณด(TAWO)>๋ ๋ค๋๋๋์ ์ธ๋ธ ๋ง์ดํด์ค ๋ ์ด๋ธ์ ํตํด ๋ฐ๋งค๋์๋ค.


ACADEMIC POSITIONS:
Oboe Faculty, Sibelius Academy University of Arts Helsinki (2018-present)
Visiting Professor, Yonsei University - School of Music (2023)
ํ๋๋ ํฌ์ฑํค ์๋ฒจ๋ฆฌ์ฐ์ค ์์ ์ Oboe Faculty
(2018- ํ์ฌ)
Inquiries : kyeong.ham@uniarts.fi
์ฐ์ธ๋ํ๊ต ์์ ๋ํ ๊ฐ์ ๊ต์ (2023)
MASTERCLASSES:
Guildhall School or Music and Drama London, Musikhochschule Lรผbeck, Norwegian Academy of Music Oslo, Austrailian National Academy of Music Melbourne, SUNY Purchase New York, Aichi Universit of the Arts Nagoya College of Music University of Cape Town, University of Pretoria in South Africa
๋ง์คํฐํด๋์ค :
๋ฐ๋ ๊ธธ๋ํ ์๋, ๋ ์ผ ๋คผ๋ฒก ์๋, ๋ ธ๋ฅด์จ์ด ์ค์ฌ๋ก ์์นด๋ฐ๋ฏธ, ๋ด์์ฃผ๋ฆฝ๋ SUNY Purchase, ํธ์ฃผ ๋ฉ๋ฒ๋ฅธ ์๋, ํ๊ตญ์์ ์ข ํฉํ๊ต, ์ผ๋ณธ ๋๊ณ ์ผ ์์ด์น์๋, ๋จ์๊ณต ์ผ์ดํํ์ด ์๋, ํ๋ ํ ๋ฆฌ์ ์๋, ํ๋๋ ์ฟ ํ๋ชจ ์ค๋ด์ ์ถ์ ๋ง์คํฐํด๋์ค, ์์คํ ๋์ ํจ๋ฅด๋ ์๋ฅด๋น ํ์คํฐ๋ฒ ๋ง์คํฐํด๋์ค.





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