“That exactitude is clear in Oh-Havenith´s incisive technique as well as her lovely sound.” Korean-German pianist Jimin Oh-Havenith travels through 200 years of musical history in a new recording that reflects her wish to reconnect with the musicallity of a child. Colin Clarke reports (=> read more).Read More

“That pianists regularly play the classics of the repertoire and skillfully incorporate them into their concert and album programs is a given fact. But to make the most popular pieces for solo piano under the title “K(now)n Piano” the focus of a double album right away, as Jimin Oh-Havenith does, requires both courage and a...Read More

21 popular piano pieces are performed by Jimin Oh-Havenith on her latest album on Audite, including Mozart’s Turkish March, Beethoven’s Für Elise, Schubert’s Impromptu op. 90/4, Chopin’s Nocturne op. 27/1, Gottschalk’s Le Bananier op. 5, Liebestraum No. 3 and La campanella by Liszt, Debussy’s Claire de lune and Pärt’s Für Alina. A feel-good program played...Read More

““Anyone can play the right notes!” protests the clumsy pianist in Wilde’s Lady Windermere’s Fan. Certainly, not everybody can play the right notes of Chopin’s B♭-Minor Sonata and Beethoven’s op. 111. Even the people that can, the great names, like Yuja Wang or Daniel Barenboim, might play those right notes, but as they seem to...Read More