She was born in Seoul, South Korea, in 1996. Since 2024, she has been studying for the Diploma in Contemporary Piano at the Reina Sofía School of Music with Professor Florent Boffard. She holds a Fundación Albéniz scholarship.
At the age of 13, she began her musical studies at Yewon Arts School and at Seoul High School of the Arts, where she received the school’s ‘Outstanding Pianist Award’. In 2020, she obtained a bachelor’s degree in Piano and also in French Literature at Yonsei University in Seoul. She subsequently decided to move to Paris to continue her studies in contemporary music and the works of Claude Debussy at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris.
Jiyoun has performed in various concert halls in Korea and abroad: Kumho Art Hall, Kosmos Art Hall, Choi Yangup Hall, the Centennial Concert Hall of Yonsei University, several venues in France (Paris, Vanves, Beaune, Limoges, etc.), the auditorium of the Korean Cultural Center in Belgium, and the auditorium of the Vietnam National Academy of Music, among others.
In 2013, she won second prize at the Seoul Youth Chamber Music Competition, and since 2015 she has formed a piano four-hands duo with pianist Jiwoo Yun, with whom she has won several international competitions, such as the Osaka Competition, the Schubert Pianoduo Competition, the Korean Pianoduo Competition, and the Vietnam International Chamber Music Competition, among others.
Also as a solo pianist, in 2019 she won first prize at the Jean Françaix International Piano Competition, and in 2023 she won second prize at the Concours Jeune Talent Normandie.
Contemporary music plays an important role in her career. In 2017, she took part in a commemorative project marking the centenary of composer Isang-Yun, organized by the Seoul Metropolitan Government, as well as in the TIMF Academy of Contemporary Music in 2015–2016. In 2022, she performed Carl Vine’s First Sonata in France, in the concert ‘15th Contemporary Keyboard Weekend’ in Paris.
As a student at the School, she has performed with the Sinfonietta (conducted by Johannes Kalitzke).