Founded in 2009, HPO holds its 12th concert in November. Aligning with Hyundai Motors Group’s global status, the HPO has continuously challenged itself to perform high quality artistic activities in order to promote the Hyundai’s corporate identity as a cultural enterprise. With the active participation of their employees from different subsidiaries, it has established itself as the sole cross-group cultural icon within the group. (participating companies – Hyundai Motors, Kia, Hyundai Mobis, Hyundai Engineering, Hyundai Card, Hyundai Wia, Hyundai Autorever, Hyundai Motor Securities, Hyundai Kepico, and Hyundai Transys)Not only holding a regular concert series, the HPO communicates with the employees through various performing activities; they hold annual “HPO Day (family concert)” to make classical music more accessible to novice audiences, and especially the “Rolling & HPO Family Day,” an outreach program for the society where the orchestra invites children from an orphanage in Hwasung City to a concert at Rolling Hills Hotel in order to spread and share the love of culture and arts in the community. Also, they contribute to the Hyundai subsidiaries’ cultural events by offering “Lobby Concert” at the Yangjae office building as well as “The Garden Healing Concert,” and to the efforts to support the employees by giving an online live concert during the pandemic.* Conductor Kim Keun-doConductor Kim Keun-do studied with Reinhart Schwarz and Georg Mark at Musik und Kunst privat universtät der stadt Wien, Austria and after graduation, he completed the Konzertexamen under Professor Uors Lajovic.He conducted Szombathely Symphony Orchestra in Hungary, Wien Konservatorium Orchestra and Wiener Koreanische Philharmonie in Austria, Besancon City Orchestra in France, Bratislava Symphoniker in Slovakia, Prague Symphony Orchestra in Czech, and Silesian Philharmonic Orchestra in Poland in Europe. He also held a baton to perform with KBS Symphony Orchestra, Seongnam Philharmonic Orchestra, New Seoul Philharmonic, Seoul Orchestra, Gyeonggi Gwangju Philharmonic Orchestra, Millenium Symphony Orchestra, Korea Soloists, Heart Heart Orchestra, Goyang Philharmonic Orchestra, DCMF, and the HPO (Hyundai Motors Group Philharmonic Orchestra) in Korea.* Piano Paik KunwooHaving started his career as a pianist 67 years ago, Paik Kunwoo has established himself as a legend, earning awards at several prestigious music competitions. Even at the age surpassing 70, he still challenges himself to new pieces through daily practices and studies. He is often called ‘the truth seeker on the piano keyboards.’Paik gave a special recital titled “Paik Kunwoo’s Gift” in 2016 in his gratitude to audiences of his 60-year musical journey where he selected pieces to play from the audience’ requests. Currently living in Paris, he was bestowed with the Officier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres from the French government in 2000 in recognition of his musical achievement. He completed to a high acclaim the cycle of Beethoven’s all 32 piano sonatas for 8 days in 2007 and 2017, and in 2019 he released Chopin’s all Nocturnes on DG followed by a nationwide concert tour in 15 cities to a great success. Paik continued to record and released a new album of Schumann’s works and toured with it as a recital program (‘Paik Kunwoo and Schumann’) in 2020. He released the most recent album featuring Enrique Granados’ “Goyescas” and before recording it, he had performed the piece in the recital at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Spain where Francisco Goya’s painting, the inspiration of the music, is owned. Paik performed the piece to the Korean audience in the nationwide tour when the album came out in September 2022