Seven
Winners in the 60th Dong-A Music Competition
Kim Sijun, Cho Hyeon-seo, Lee Eunbin, Park Sunwoo, Kim Jaehyeon, Choi Ha-yeong, and Jin Yechan, all of whom are current students of the School of Music, won in the 60th Dong-A Music Competition. The competition takes place biennially depending on the division. This year, it held the 1st and 2nd preliminaries at Dong-A Ilbo in Chungjeongno and Korea University Inchon Memorial Hall since October 6th. And twenty-one participants moved up to the finals.
In the finals held on the 27th
and 28th of October at the Music Concert Hall in Seoul National
University of Education, sixteen entrants had the glory of winning awards. Four
of them are the first-prize winners of different divisions. Kim Sijun acquired
the Ugeum Prize equivalent to the first prize in violin, and violinist Ugeum
Yang Haeyeop handed the award to the winner. Cho Hyeon-seo won the 2nd
prize in violin, and Lee Eunbin won the 2nd prize in viola. Park
Sunwoo and Kim Jaehyeon won 2nd and 3rd prizes in cello
individually. Choi Ha-yeong won the 2nd prize in horn, and Jin
Yechan won the 3rd prize in trumpet.