Organist
Sunkyung Noh
Sunkyung Noh was born in South Korea and at the age of 16 she began to play the organ. She studied at Yonsei University with Prof. Dong-ill Shin in Korea. From 2018 she studied two master's degrees in organ and claviorganum at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg with Prof. Wolfgang Zerer and harpsichord with Prof. Menno Van Delft. From 2022 to 2024 she has studied at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater "Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy" in Leipzig in the Meisterclass with Prof. Martin Schmeding.
During her undergraduate years, she won first prize in the general division at the Korea Organist Association Competition and first prize at the Catholic University of Korea Church Music Conservatory. Since then, she has been the youngest finalist in the international competition "Asia Organ Competition by the AGO Taiwan Chapter" and she proved her competence by winning second place. During her undergraduate years, she was selected several times as an academic excellence scholarship student and she was also awarded a Yonsei University College of Music Alumni Association Scholarship. She was recognized as a talent related to the Korea Academic Scholarship Foundation's Vision for Excellence in the Arts, and she was awarded a full tuition scholarship. She has continued her active performance activities since her undergraduate days, such as Incheon Elim Art Center, Yonsei University Church Music Concert, Torch Mission Center Organ Rookie Concert, Korean Church Music Association Rookie Concert. In addition, she has participated in the masterclasses of world-renowned performers (Ludger Lohmann, Olivier Latry, Arvid Gast und Leo van Doeselaar, etc.) and has accumulated various techniques and playing styles.
She has won various awards not only in Korea but also in international competitions. In 2022, she won second prize at the International Schnitger Competition 2022 in the Netherlands, and in the fall of that year she won the 6. International Buxtehude Orgel Wettbewerb in Lübeck, where she became the first Korean to win the prize 1st place. And in January 2023, as the first Asian winner at the International Mendelssohn Competition (Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Wettbewerb), which boasts a tradition of more than 100 years, she received the first prize and the Contemporary Work Interpretation Award and 2023 July Interpretation First Prize and Gold Medal at 32nd St Albans International Organ Competition.
She continues her lively performances throughout Europe and the US, performing in important venues such as the Thomaskirche in Leipzig, Münster Freiberg and St. Bavokerk in Haarlem, etc. In addition, she has performed with the orchestra at the world-famous Gewandhaus in Leipzig and guest performances at the Essen Philharmonic.
In 2025, she plans her solo debut album and she is scheduled to perform throughout Europe and the United States, including at King's College, Oxford in England..