Jimin Oh-Havenith’s three previous Schumann recordings have earned top reviews from international critics. Her third album “wild | mild”, released in early October 2024, was highly acclaimed and was nominated in the category “solo instrument” for the 2025 ICMA in November. Remy Franck, the ICMA jury president, wrote in Pizzicato on 4 October 2024: “She...Read More

It is a good thing that Schumann’s Carnaval and Davidsbündlertänze cycles tolerate a wide variety of interpretations and are interesting in many variations. This is also true of Jimin Oh-Havenith’s recordings. She has fully grasped Schumann’s fantasy and differentiates the Carnaval very delicately, with a lovingly poetic view of the colorful hustle and bustle. At...Read More

“Jimin Oh-Havenith plays Robert Schumann’s first piano sonata F-Sharp minor Op. 11 as if it were a single great fantasy. With her interpretation she especially highlights the various emotions which Schumann let flow into his music. The performer looks deeply into this music. She is not satisfied with superficialities. This is true for example for...Read More

The Kreisleriana, for which Schumann was inspired by the whimsical character of E.T.A. Hoffmann’s Kapellmeister Kreisler and which also depicts himself and his Clara, opens this program by pianist Jimin Oh-Havenith at audite. She contrasts Schumann’s Opus 16 between virtuosic playfulness and the utmost tenderness in its two-pronged approach. However, the interpreter does not make...Read More

“Jimin Oh-Havenith has […] these qualities: a lovely warm sound perfect for the numerous moments of quiet reflection in this music—the enchanting opening melody in the second movement’s Aria in the Sonata or the lovely figurative broken-chord progression in the Fantasie’s “Langsam getragen” […]. Jimin Oh-Havenith is an excellent pianist with a quiet, almost understated...Read More

Audite is launching a three-CD series of works by Robert Schumann played by the Korean pianist Jimin Oh-Havenith. Born in Seoul, she studied at the Seoul National University and with Aloys Kontarsky at the Musikhochschule Köln. She performed as a soloist and recorded for radio and CD, also as a piano duo with her late...Read More

With this recording, Audite starts a series of three CDs with Jimin Oh-Havenith. Schumann’s 1st Piano Sonata op. 11 was written in the years 1832-1836 and is dedicated to his later wife Clara. Jimin Oh-Havenith plays it with a mixture of spontaneity and structural superiority that from the first notes of the first movement one...Read More

In the small differences between Mussorgsky’s original piano score and Rimsky-Korsakov’s revision, Jimin Oh-Havenith sticks quite faithfully to the manuscript. […] The South Korean-born pianist, now resident in Germany, has made a careful study of the score. In fact care and caution are the watchwords here. Oh-Havenith makes a deeper impression with the four Scriabin...Read More

South Korean pianist Jimin Oh-Havenith’s fourth CD for audite is devoted to Russian music. She presents Modest Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition in a very dramatic and visualizing interpretation. This results in atmospheric images like the melancholic drawn Old Castle, the awkward staggering of the chicks or the heartrending pleading of poor Schmuyle. The four...Read More

“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