Three young Korean musicians will participate in a piano competition in New York.

Ahn Jee-hae, Hong Sa-hun and Chang Hye-won will compete at the sixth New York International Piano Competition, which will be held from June 18-22 in Manhattan.

Ahn, who started piano studies at age 3, was the youngest pianist to perform in the Fourth Chopin International Competition in Moscow in 2004. She is a recipient of a Jack Kent Cooke Young Artist Award.

Hong began playing the piano at age 4 and graduated Magna Cum Laude from Texas Christian University at 16.

Chang, a graduate of Sun Hwa Arts High school in Seoul, is a student at the Glenn Gould School of the Royal Conservatory of Music, Canada.

The Stecher and Horowitz Foundation of New York recently announced 22 contestants ages 16-21 for the competition. The 10-year-old piano competition is held once every two years.

Korean pianist Kim Jung-eun won the third prize at the previous competition in 2010.

By Kim Young-won (wone0102@heraldcorp.com)