About

Pianist Jongwon Jeon, born in Seoul and based in Germany, performs a wide repertoire rooted in Romantic and Impressionist music.

In 2025, Jongwon Jeon was selected as a Young Artist by Drawing the Music Management and gave a solo recital at Hermann Art Hall in Seoul. He also performed solo recitals in Cottbus, presented by the Deutsche Chopin-Gesellschaft, and in Polenz, and opened 2026 with a concert in Pulsnitz. He has performed across South Korea, Austria and Germany, including Leipzig, Hamburg and Krefeld, and was invited by Shigeru Kawai Europe to play in a masterclass with Marc Laforêt.

His career began with first prizes at the Nanpa Music Competition and the Korea Music Association Competition in South Korea. He has since widened his path to the international stage, reaching the semifinals of the Lyon and Verona International Piano Competitions and taking part in the ARD International Music Competition and the Paderewski Competition in Bydgoszcz.

Jongwon Jeon studied at Yonsei University with Jongdo An and Young-lan Han, and is currently completing his postgraduate soloist diploma (Meisterklassenexamen) with Prof. Christian A. Pohl at the University of Music and Theatre “Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy” Leipzig. He has taken part in masterclasses with Charles Richard-Hamelin, Ronan O’Hora, Herbert Schuch and Matthias Kirschnereit, among others, and at the International Summer Academy of the Mozarteum Salzburg. He is a scholarship holder of the Elfrun Gabriel Foundation for 2026/27 and was previously supported by the Seongnam City Scholarship Foundation.