ARTIST BIO

Guitarist Suh Jungshil is one of the most active performer in South Korea. He has been on stages of every major Korean concert venues such as Sejong Cultural Center, Seoul Art Center, etc. And as a member of Korea Festival Ensemble, a leading chamber ensemble in Korea, he is playing a lot of chamber music featuring guitar.
He started off on classical guitar rather late. He originally entered Yonsei University, one of the top colleges in Korea, as a Chemical Engineering major.  But upon discovering his passion for music and guitar, he quit Yonsei and went to Manhattan School of Music to get his BM and MM degree in Guitar Performance.
He has been traveling around the world with Beautiful Mind Charity Ensemble and giving concerts in Nepal, Bangladesh, Singapore, Phillipines, Kenya, Thailand, Algeria, Spain, Morroco, Miyanmar, Egypt, Lebanon, Chile, Uruguay, Argentina and USA.
He is also currently the music director of Sound-of-Hope, a non-profit organization that visits schools and hospitals to give concerts for children who are not able to attend musical events otherwise.
He also frequently appears on TV and radio shows on stations like KBS 1TV, KBS 1FM, MBC FM, TBS FM, Arte TV, etc…