Sun Hee You, Unlimited at Casa del Jazz, December 10, 2026

The pianist Sun Hee You presents «Unlimited» on Thursday, December 10, 2026 at 19:30 at Casa del Jazz, at Viale di Porta Ardeatina 55 (00154 Rome), in the Sala concerti Armando Trovajoli, as part of the series I Concerti nel Parco Autunno 2026. The full-price ticket costs 15 euros, the reduced one 12, according to the official concert page. You buy it on the official Casa del Jazz website, which links to the presale circuit authorized by the organizers, or at the villa's box office, open on show days from 19:00 until 40 minutes after the start. You get there on Metro B to Piramide and then on foot, about a quarter of an hour, or on bus 714 to the Colombo/Marco Polo stop. For information the venue answers at 06 80241281.

A piano, a hall of just over 100 seats, a program that lines up Ravel, Chick Corea and Nikolai Kapustin. Casa del Jazz presents it with a subtitle that is already a poetics: a fine borderline between classical and jazz. It's the return of a pianist the Villa Osio audience knows well, and whom the venue itself calls one of its favorites.

Sun Hee You at Casa del Jazz: the date, the time, the calendar change

The official concert page gives Thursday, December 10, 2026 at 19:30, in the Sala Trovajoli, with tickets at 15 euros full price and 12 reduced. This is the date to mark down.

Why some people mention November 6

In the presentation of the series I Concerti nel Parco Autunno 2026, published in September, Sun Hee You's return was announced for November 6, and the series' period is still given as October 17 to November 6. The page for the individual concert, however, now shows December 10, in both the Italian and English versions, with the same time and the same hall. If you had written down November, you'll need to correct your calendar: the valid date is the one on the concert page. If you already have a ticket bought for the previous date, it's a good idea to check the sales circuit's communications or call the venue.

The 19:30 time

19:30 is Casa del Jazz's usual time for concerts in its fall series. For a piano recital it's a happy hour: you arrive after work, you come out in time for dinner, and you get home while public transportation is still in full service.

A Thursday in December

December 10 falls in the middle of the pre-Christmas period. Rome is already lit up for the holidays, and evening traffic is that of the heaviest weeks of the year. The practical advice is simple: metro, not car.

«Unlimited»: Sun Hee You's program, from Ravel to Kapustin

The official program of «Unlimited» includes Maurice Ravel's Sonatine, Chick Corea's Children's Songs, the Intermezzo from Nikolai Kapustin's Eight Concert Etudes op. 40 no. 7 and Kapustin's Variations op. 41. Four titles, three composers, a single thread.

Ravel, the bridge

The concert presentation starts from a precise idea: some 20th-century classical composers acted as a bridge toward jazz, and among them it names Ravel, Debussy, Milhaud and Gershwin. Ravel opens the program with the Sonatine, a short, crystalline piece in three movements, written in the early years of the century. There's no jazz in it, obviously. There is, however, the kind of harmony, color and touch that, a few decades later, jazz pianists would make their own.

Bill Evans and impressionism

Casa del Jazz's text insists on one name: Bill Evans, one of the most refined pianists in the history of jazz, whose search for touch and atmosphere is very reminiscent of Debussy and Ravel. It's the most useful listening key for the first piece of the evening. If you know Evans's records, you'll recognize in the Sonatine the same suspended chords, the same care for resonance.

Chick Corea and simplicity

The second composer is Chick Corea, one of the great jazz pianists, who wrote a collection of pieces for children with the idea, the presentation reports, of conveying simplicity as beauty, as it appears in a child's spirit. The venue compares the Children's Songs to Béla Bartók's Mikrokosmos, in both structure and style: short pieces, each built on a single idea, that teach through listening.

Kapustin, the borderland composer

The heart of the program is Nikolai Kapustin. The presentation calls him a borderland composer, with a classical musical structure and a language and style that belong entirely to jazz. Trained at the Moscow Conservatory, he worked as an arranger for Oleg Lundstrem's orchestra, which the venue describes as the oldest jazz orchestra: an experience that turned him into what is now considered one of the most jazz-minded composers of classical music, and one of the most loved by the new generation of pianists. Of Kapustin's music, Sun Hee You plays the Intermezzo, the seventh of the Eight Concert Etudes op. 40, and the Variations op. 41.

Written improvisation

There's a point on which the presentation is honest, and it's worth picking up. Written improvised music, like Gershwin's, is one thing, and jazz played in the streets of New Orleans is another. In Kapustin everything is written, note for note: the swing, the accents, even what at first listen sounds like an improvised solo. Sun Hee You's concert is therefore not a jazz concert, and it doesn't claim to be. It's a classical concert that sounds like jazz. The difference can be heard in the hall, and it's the beauty of the evening.

The improvisation classical music forgot

The presentation also recalls that improvisation, a fundamental trait of jazz, wasn't foreign to early music: in the Renaissance and Baroque people improvised, and then over time the practice faded in classical music. «Unlimited» sits right on that border: a classical pianist who, score in hand, rediscovers the rhythmic freedom the academic tradition had lost.

Who Sun Hee You is: from Seoul to Santa Cecilia

Sun Hee You is a South Korean pianist trained in Seoul and a graduate of the Santa Cecilia Conservatory in Rome, where she moved at 14. She continued her studies with Lazar Berman. The official presentation describes her as a brilliant example of a new-generation classical musician.

Yewon School and competitions

Her training began in Seoul, at Yewon School, which Casa del Jazz's presentation calls the famous Korean music institution for child prodigies. She got there after winning several competitions from her first years of piano study. It's the typical path of the great Korean piano school: early selection, discipline, a wide repertoire from childhood.

Her debut at 13

At 13 she made her debut as a soloist with the Yangeum Orchestra in Seoul, playing Beethoven's Concerto No. 2 and Haydn's Concerto in D major. Two classical works, transparently written, in which a mistake can't hide: the choice says a lot about the girl's technical solidity.

Rome at 14

The following year, at 14, she moved to Italy. She graduated from the Santa Cecilia Conservatory, on Via dei Greci, the oldest music institution in Rome. For a pianist who grew up in Seoul, arriving in Rome as a teenager meant building a second language and a second home: today Sun Hee You is a musician of the Roman scene in every respect, and that's how Casa del Jazz presents her to its audience.

Lazar Berman

After graduating she continued her studies with Lazar Berman, whom the presentation calls legendary. Berman was a Russian pianist, and studying with him meant entering the Russian tradition of big sound and cantabile: the same tradition that Kapustin, trained at the Moscow Conservatory, came from by other routes.

The Kapustin album

The presentation recalls that Sun Hee You was well received by international critics and audiences for her latest album, dedicated precisely to Kapustin. For that work she was compared to Oscar Peterson for rhythm and sense of time, and to Bill Evans for sound and touch. These are demanding comparisons, made by the critics and not by the pianist, but they explain well why «Unlimited» is built around that composer.

Rachmaninoff in arenas: the Alchemaya Tour with Max Gazzè

Then there's a chapter few classical pianists can claim. Sun Hee You was a special guest on Roman singer-songwriter Max Gazzè's Alchemaya Tour, performing in venues such as the Baths of Caracalla, the Sferisterio in Macerata, the Arena di Verona and the Ancient Theater of Taormina. On those evenings she brought the music of Rachmaninoff, one of her favorite composers, to a huge pop audience. It's an experience that explains a lot about the pianist: the conviction that classical music can speak to everyone, without lowering the bar.

A Villa Osio favorite

In the presentation of the fall series, Casa del Jazz talks about the welcome return of one of its favorites. It isn't a courtesy formula: it means the pianist has already played in this hall and the audience has followed her. If you're hearing her for the first time, it's a guarantee. If you were there before, it's a date.

I Concerti nel Parco Autunno 2026 at Casa del Jazz

I Concerti nel Parco Autunno 2026 is the fall tail of the collaboration between the summer series I Concerti nel Parco and Casa del Jazz, which the venue calls a happy joint venture, renewed again this year beyond the summer.

Two announced dates

The published program includes two concerts. The first, on October 17, brought the Italian-Spanish singer Mila Trani to Rome for the first time, with the project «Menta selvatica» together with Bartolomeo Barenghi, after her success at the Blue Note in Milan. The second is Sun Hee You's «Unlimited». The venue announces that more dates are on the way.

A series that crosses genres

I Concerti nel Parco was born as an outdoor summer series. The fall move to Casa del Jazz brings the concerts indoors, into the villa's concert hall. The common thread is crossing genres: songwriting, jazz, classical. Sun Hee You's program is the most explicit statement of this vocation.

The rest of the fall at the villa

In November Casa del Jazz hosts, as every year, some concerts of the Roma Jazz Festival. If you discover the venue with Sun Hee You, in the following months you'll find a rich program, from solo piano to European groups.

Casa del Jazz: Villa Osio given back to the city

Casa del Jazz occupies Villa Osio, at Viale di Porta Ardeatina 55, and is run by the Fondazione Musica per Roma, the same one that runs Auditorium Parco della Musica.

From confiscation to music

Few Roman venues have such a clear-cut history. The villa belonged to Enrico Nicoletti, identified as a member of the Banda della Magliana. Once confiscated, it was assigned to the City of Rome, and at the wish of mayor Walter Veltroni it was turned into a center entirely devoted to jazz. At the entrance a plaque, made with Don Luigi Ciotti's association Libera, bears the names of mafia victims. It's the first thing you see when you go in, and it sets the tone for everything else.

Three buildings and a park

The complex covers about 2,500 square meters, surrounded by a park of more than 25,000 square meters open from dawn to dusk. There are three buildings: the main one houses the concert hall, with equipment that allows evenings to be recorded and turned into albums, the second has rehearsal rooms, recording studios and guest quarters for musicians, and the third is a restaurant.

The Sala Armando Trovajoli

Sun Hee You plays in the hall named after Armando Trovajoli, a Roman pianist and composer, a leading figure of Italian jazz in the 1950s before becoming a writer of film scores and musical comedies. A pianist, then, gives his name to the hall where a pianist will play borderland music. The venue's pages give a capacity of about 134 to 150 seats: a few rows, the piano visible from every seat.

Why the hall matters for this program

Kapustin demands clarity: repeated notes, walking basses, shifted accents. In a big hall the articulation gets muddy. In a hall like the Trovajoli every accent comes through. Ravel, for his part, lives on dynamic nuances that only closeness makes perceptible. In our view this program, in this hall, sounds better than in any of the city's big auditoriums.

How to get to Casa del Jazz for Sun Hee You

Casa del Jazz is reached on Metro B to Piramide and then on foot, or on bus 714 to the Colombo/Marco Polo stop. If you're coming by car, there's a parking lot next to the villa.

Metro B, Piramide stop

From Piramide station to the villa it's just under a kilometer, a quarter of an hour's walk along Viale della Piramide Cestia and then Viale di Porta Ardeatina. In December, at seven in the evening, it's been dark for a while: the route is lit but not very lively, and it's more pleasant in a group.

Bus 714

The 714 stops at Colombo/Marco Polo, a few steps from the entrance, and the venue gives its frequency as about every six minutes. If you're coming from Termini or EUR it's the most convenient option, and if you have trouble walking it's the one to choose.

By car

The parking lot next to the villa is on Via Cristoforo Colombo, at the corner of Viale di Porta Ardeatina. In December, on a Thursday evening, Via Cristoforo Colombo and the Piramide area have very heavy traffic: allow plenty of extra time.

Getting back

A recital of this kind usually lasts around an hour and a half with an intermission, but the end time isn't published. Coming out around 21:00, the metro and buses are in full service. Still, check the times on the transit company's route planner before leaving.

Tickets for Sun Hee You at Casa del Jazz

The ticket for «Unlimited» costs 15 euros full price and 12 reduced, according to the official concert page on the Casa del Jazz website.

Where to buy them

Online sales go through the official Casa del Jazz website, which links to the presale circuit authorized by the organizers. The villa's box office is open to the public on show days from 19:00 until 40 minutes after the start. The purchase and use conditions are published by the venue.

Reductions

The concert page gives a reduced ticket at 12 euros without specifying the categories. The general rules of the Fondazione Musica per Roma provide reductions for people with disabilities and, where necessary, admission for a companion. To find out who is entitled to the reduced ticket for this evening, it's best to call the venue's number.

An honest price

15 euros for a piano recital in a hall of just over 100 seats, with a pianist trained in Berman's school, is a price rarely found in Rome. Better not to wait: the hall is small and the pianist's audience is loyal.

How to plan your «Unlimited» evening

With a concert at 19:30, the evening splits nicely in two: a walk or an aperitivo before, dinner after between Testaccio and San Saba.

Before the concert

On December 10 the sun sets early, and the villa's park closes at sunset: the walk among the trees is best left for the warm months. On the other hand, Piramide and Testaccio, a few minutes away, are lively even on winter evenings, and the Aventine with its lit-up churches is a climb that pays off.

After the concert

Around 21:00 you're back on the street. It's the right time for dinner in a Testaccio trattoria or a dessert in a café in Piramide. In December, on weekdays, it's best to book: the season of office dinners fills the restaurants.

Some listening to prepare

Before going out, 20 minutes of listening are enough. A track by Bill Evans, a piece by Ravel, a piece by Kapustin: three listens that prepare your ear for the program better than any reading.

Accessibility at Casa del Jazz

Casa del Jazz states that it was designed for full accessibility, and wheelchair users can book their seat in the hall at 06 80241281.

Reductions and companions

The Fondazione Musica per Roma provides a reduced ticket for people with disabilities and free admission for a companion when necessary. For blind people there's a 50 percent discount. Reserved seats are few, so it's best to call ahead.

The route

For people with mobility difficulties the walk from Piramide is long. Bus 714, which stops a few steps from the entrance, is the best choice.

Sun Hee You with children and teenagers

The «Unlimited» program contains Chick Corea's Children's Songs, short pieces meant to convey simplicity as beauty: it's one of the rare piano recitals that a kid studying music can enjoy from beginning to end.

For piano students

For a young pianist, hearing Kapustin live is a revelation: you discover that classical technique can produce swing. It's an evening I recommend to every piano teacher with teenage students.

With little ones

For a small child, a piano recital at 19:30 is still demanding. For the entry conditions for minors, the reference is the venue.

Where to eat near Casa del Jazz

One of the three buildings of Villa Osio houses a restaurant: if you want to have dinner without moving, after Sun Hee You, it's the simplest option.

Testaccio

Beyond the Pyramid lies Testaccio, the neighborhood of traditional Roman cooking, with trattorias and pizzerias frequented mainly by residents. It's a 10-minute walk from the villa, and on a December evening it's the warmest place, in every sense, to end the night.

Piramide and San Saba

Around Piramide there are cafés and bars suited to a quick aperitivo before 19:30. Heading up toward San Saba, the residential neighborhood of the Piccolo Aventino, you'll find a few quieter neighborhood places.

What's around Casa del Jazz

Casa del Jazz is between the Aventine and the start of the Appian Way, about 600 meters from the Baths of Caracalla and a kilometer from the Pyramid of Cestius.

The Aurelian Walls

Viale di Porta Ardeatina follows the line of the Aurelian Walls, the 3rd-century ring of walls. Coming from Via Cristoforo Colombo you walk next to the ancient bricks: one of the least visited and most beautiful stretches of wall in the city.

Caracalla, San Saba, the Aventine

The Baths of Caracalla, where Sun Hee You played Rachmaninoff with Max Gazzè, are a few minutes away. The Basilica of San Saba, on the Piccolo Aventino, is a stone's throw away. If you want more jazz in the following days, Alexanderplatz Jazz Club is the city's historic club.

December in Rome: the right time for a recital

On December 10 Rome is in the thick of the pre-Christmas period, between the Immaculate Conception on the 8th and the holidays at the end of the month. The lights are on, the markets are open, the evenings are cold but rarely freezing. It's the season when indoor concert halls take center stage again, and when a recital of an hour and a half, in a villa surrounded by green, becomes a refuge from traffic and shopping. The advice is to treat yourself, or someone else, to this evening: it costs less than a Christmas present and lasts longer.

A curious fact about Sun Hee You, Unlimited at Casa del Jazz, December 10, 2026

The nicest curious fact concerns the way Sun Hee You reached a wide audience. Many classical pianists build their careers between competitions, concert halls and records. Sun Hee You has done that too, but she was heard by tens of thousands of people in a completely different context: as a special guest on the Alchemaya Tour of Max Gazzè, the Roman singer-songwriter. On those evenings, at the Baths of Caracalla, the Sferisterio in Macerata, the Arena di Verona and the Ancient Theater of Taormina, she brought Rachmaninoff, one of her favorite composers, to the stage, in front of an audience that had come for the pop songs.

There's a link with the «Unlimited» program worth noting. Rachmaninoff and Kapustin come from the same Russian tradition, both pianists before composers, both convinced that the piano can be an orchestra. Kapustin, however, instead of late romanticism, chose the language of jazz, working as a young man as an arranger in Oleg Lundstrem's orchestra. A pianist who has brought Rachmaninoff to Roman amphitheaters, and who studied with Lazar Berman, a great Russian interpreter, therefore has everything it takes to play Kapustin.

The second curious fact is in the title. «Unlimited», without limits: a title that contradicts the venue's subtitle, which talks about a fine borderline. In reality the two go together well. The border exists, and the concert consists in crossing it without erasing it.

Something nobody tells you about Sun Hee You, Unlimited at Casa del Jazz, December 10, 2026

What's rarely said about a concert like this is that it isn't a jazz concert. It takes place at Casa del Jazz, it has Chick Corea on the program and a composer who wrote swing, but it's a classical recital: all the notes are written, and the pianist plays them as written. It's the venue's own presentation that points this out, distinguishing between written improvised music, like Gershwin's, and the jazz born in the streets of New Orleans.

This changes the way you listen. At a jazz concert you applaud after the solos, but not here. In Kapustin what sounds like a solo is a page of score, and applause in the middle breaks a form built like a sonata. The advice is to wait for the end of each piece, as at any classical recital, even when the rhythm invites you to clap.

The second thing nobody tells you concerns the date. Those who read the September series presentation have November 6 in mind, while the concert page now shows December 10. With two dates going around, the only source to follow is the concert page on the Casa del Jazz website, to be checked again close to the evening. If you told friends about the concert, it's a good idea to let them know.

Finally: the box office opens at 19:00, only half an hour before the start. If you want to buy on the spot, arrive on time.

My advice for visiting Sun Hee You, Unlimited at Casa del Jazz, December 10, 2026

The first piece of advice is to listen to Kapustin before the concert, at least one piece. He's a composer rarely performed in Roman halls, and the first reaction of anyone hearing him is astonishment: it sounds like a jazz pianist improvising, and instead it's a score. Arriving with that astonishment already used up lets you listen in the hall to what really matters, that is, how Sun Hee You interprets it: the timing, the touch, the weight of the basses, the qualities for which critics have compared her to Oscar Peterson and Bill Evans.

The second piece of advice concerns your seat. In a small hall every seat is good, but for a piano recital it's best to sit on the keyboard side, usually on the left looking at the stage, to see the hands. In Kapustin the hands tell half the concert: the left walking like a double bass, the right phrasing like a saxophone.

Third: buy your ticket online. The box office on site opens only at 19:00, and for a pianist the venue calls a favorite, in a hall of just over 100 seats, the risk of finding it sold out is real. The rule: tickets first, the rest of the evening after.

Last: dress in layers. The walk from Piramide, in December, is cold, and the hall is heated.

Another well-known fact, yet rarely mentioned

It's well known that jazz owes a lot to European music, and that 20th-century European music owes a lot to jazz. It's less often remembered how early this exchange began. The concert presentation says it clearly: jazz landed in Europe at the beginning of the 20th century, and composers such as Ravel, Debussy and Milhaud picked up its colors almost immediately, and even before them Chopin, the venue says, anticipated certain sounds.

The reverse movement is just as well documented. Bill Evans, one of the most important pianists in the history of jazz, built his sound on a touch and harmonies that the presentation compares to Debussy and Ravel. Chick Corea, who also studied classical music, wrote the Children's Songs with a structure the venue compares to Bartók's Mikrokosmos.

Kapustin closes the circle: a Soviet composer, trained at the Moscow Conservatory, who wrote etudes and variations in classical form but with the language of jazz. For years his music circulated little outside Russia. Today, the presentation recalls, it's among the most loved by the new generation of classical pianists. In an hour and a half, Sun Hee You's program thus tells a century of exchanges between two worlds that thought they were separate.

The right photo to take at Sun Hee You, Unlimited at Casa del Jazz, December 10, 2026

No photos during the concert. At a piano recital a click or a lit screen disturbs both the performer and the listeners, and the house rules ask for this. The photo should be taken before or after.

The first is the facade of Villa Osio lit up, seen from the entrance drive. In December, at seven in the evening, the park is dark and the villa stands out with its windows lit: an image very different from the summer one, more intimate, almost like something out of a novel.

The second is the plaque with the names of mafia victims, at the entrance. It isn't a photo to share for its beauty, but for memory: accompanied by two lines of explanation, it tells the story of Casa del Jazz better than any other.

The third is in the hall, before the start: the grand piano on stage, the lights low, the rows still empty. It's the image of the recital about to begin, and the only one that disturbs no one.

Finally, if you walk from Piramide, you can stop along Viale di Porta Ardeatina: the Aurelian Walls lit up at night, with the plane trees in front, are a glimpse of Rome few people photograph.

Some important events that happened here in history

The concert venue has several layers of history. The oldest is that of the Aurelian Walls, along which Viale di Porta Ardeatina runs: the 3rd-century ring of walls, built to defend Rome, one of whose gates opening to the south is preserved in the street's name.

The second layer is that of the villa. Villa Osio was the residence of Enrico Nicoletti, identified as a member of the Banda della Magliana, the criminal organization that marked Roman news from the 1970s to the 1990s. The confiscation and assignment to the City of Rome are the founding event of Casa del Jazz.

The third is the transformation. The administration led by Walter Veltroni wanted to make the villa a center entirely devoted to jazz, with a concert hall, recording studios and guest quarters for visiting musicians. The plaque with the names of mafia victims, created with Don Luigi Ciotti's Libera, marked the civic meaning of the operation from the start.

The fourth layer is musical. Since then the villa has hosted summer and fall series, the November concerts of the Roma Jazz Festival, and collaborations like the one with I Concerti nel Parco, which the venue calls a happy joint venture renewed in 2026 too. The concert hall bears the name of Armando Trovajoli, a reminder that Roman jazz has a long history. On December 10, 2026, a pianist who arrived in Rome at 14, and trained in this city, returns there.

Who has passed through Sun Hee You, Unlimited at Casa del Jazz, December 10, 2026

The hall where Sun Hee You plays bears the name of Armando Trovajoli, a Roman pianist and composer, a figure of Italian jazz in the 1950s and then the author of many film scores and musical comedies. It's a name that links the piano, jazz and Rome: the three coordinates of the concert.

Weighty masters and fellow travelers pass through Sun Hee You's biography. Lazar Berman, the Russian pianist with whom she continued her studies after graduating from Santa Cecilia. Max Gazzè, who wanted her as a special guest on his Alchemaya Tour. And, in spirit, the musicians on the program: Ravel, Chick Corea, Kapustin, with the shadows of Oscar Peterson and Bill Evans, evoked by critics to describe her playing.

Other musicians on the program pass through Casa del Jazz in the same fall. In the I Concerti nel Parco series, on October 17, the Italian-Spanish singer Mila Trani with Bartolomeo Barenghi, at her Rome debut. In October the groups of Una Striscia di Terra Feconda, in November the Roma Jazz Festival. It's the geography of a venue that welcomes jazz, song and classical music without hierarchies.

Outside music, the mayor who wanted its transformation and the association Libera, which gave it its memory, have passed through the villa. Whoever goes in on December 10 passes by their marks before sitting down in the hall.

Frequently asked questions about Sun Hee You at Casa del Jazz

When does Sun Hee You play at Casa del Jazz?

Sun Hee You plays at Casa del Jazz on Thursday, December 10, 2026 at 19:30, in the Sala concerti Armando Trovajoli, according to the official page of the «Unlimited» concert. The series presentation published in September gave November 6: the date to follow is the one on the concert page, to be checked again close to the evening.

How much is a ticket for Sun Hee You «Unlimited»?

The ticket for Sun Hee You «Unlimited» costs 15 euros full price and 12 euros reduced, according to the official Casa del Jazz page. You buy it online from the venue's website, which links to the presale circuit authorized by the organizers, or at the villa's box office, open on show days from 19:00.

What does Sun Hee You play in the «Unlimited» concert?

In the «Unlimited» concert Sun Hee You plays Maurice Ravel's Sonatine, Chick Corea's Children's Songs, the Intermezzo from Nikolai Kapustin's Eight Concert Etudes op. 40 no. 7 and Kapustin's Variations op. 41. It's a program built on the border between classical music and jazz.

Who is Sun Hee You?

Sun Hee You is a South Korean pianist trained at Yewon School in Seoul, who came to Italy at 14 and graduated from the Santa Cecilia Conservatory. She studied with Lazar Berman. She was a special guest on Max Gazzè's Alchemaya Tour and has recorded an album dedicated to Nikolai Kapustin.

Is Sun Hee You's concert jazz or classical music?

Sun Hee You's concert is a classical recital with a program close to jazz. The music is entirely written: Kapustin uses the language of jazz within classical forms, and Corea wrote the Children's Songs as short piano pieces. There's no improvisation, but you can hear the swing.

How do you get to Casa del Jazz by public transportation?

Casa del Jazz, at Viale di Porta Ardeatina 55, is reached on Metro B to Piramide and then about a quarter of an hour on foot, or on bus 714 to the Colombo/Marco Polo stop, a few steps from the entrance. If you're coming by car, there's a parking lot next to the villa on Via Cristoforo Colombo.

Is Casa del Jazz wheelchair accessible?

Casa del Jazz states that it was designed for full accessibility, and wheelchair users can book their seat at 06 80241281. The Fondazione Musica per Roma provides reductions for people with disabilities and admission for a companion when necessary. Bus 714 is more convenient than the walk from the metro.

Final advice on Sun Hee You at Casa del Jazz

Borderland concerts like this one also suit those who say they don't love jazz or get bored by classical music. Sun Hee You, in a small hall, with Ravel, Corea and Kapustin, is the best way to discover that the separation doesn't hold. Mark December 10, buy your ticket online, take the 714 and sit on the keyboard side. You won't find 15 euros better spent, in December, in Rome.

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