Hyeji Bak is a South Korean percussionist. She began with piano in Daegu and turned to percussion as a teenager. She studied with Marta Klimasara at the Stuttgart University of Music and Performing Arts and graduated in January 2020, according to her Concours de Genève laureate biography .

She appeared as a soloist with the Daegu Philharmonic Orchestra in 2008. Her later performances included concerts with the Seoul Philharmonic and recitals in Switzerland, France and South Korea. The Seoul International Music Festival’s 2024 artist biography also records her 2021 Korean premiere of Peter Eötvös’s Speaking Drums with the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra.

Competition results

At Geneva she also received the Audience, Young Audience, Students, Concerts de Jussy and Bergerault prizes, and shared the Yamaha Young Artists Scholarship Prize. Her competition programme included Michael Jarrell’s Entlehnungen for solo marimba and Peter Eötvös’s Speaking Drums in the final (official 2019 results ).