WASHINGTON, Oct. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean Pianist Lim Yunchan won the prestigious Gramophone Classical Music Award in the piano category, the annual British award’s organizer said Wednesday, marking the first time that a Korean pianist has received the prize dubbed the Oscars for classical music. During a ceremony in London, Lim, 20, received [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Pianist Lim Yunchan, the youngest winner ever to win the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, will release his first album under the Decca Classics record label, Universal Music Group said Wednesday. The album, “Chopin: Etudes,” will come out on April 19, the company said, with one of the tracks, [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — A live performance album by South Korean pianist Lim Yunchan has been included on The New York Times’ Best Classical Music Albums of 2023 list. “Yoonchan Lim-Liszt: Transcendental Etudes” was one of the top 25 albums of the year announced by the U.S. daily Thursday (U.S. time). Released in [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Pianist Lim Yunchan will perform with the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra (SPO) in early January as the orchestra’s first performance since the inauguration of its new music director, Jaap van Zweden, the orchestra said Wednesday. The concert, titled “New Era with Jaap van Zweden,” takes place from Jan. 25-26 and [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Pianist Lim Yunchan, the youngest winner of the 2022 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, has signed a contract with the Decca Classics record label, Universal Music Group said Thursday. At 18, Lim won the prestigious award last June, with his stellar performance of Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3, which [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean piano prodigy Lim Yunchan said Monday he wanted to deliver Beethoven’s utopia through the composer’s No. 5 Piano Concerto “Emperor” on his first live album in collaboration with Gwangju Symphony Orchestra. The 18-year-old took the stage with the local orchestra, conducted by Hong Suk-won, at Tongyeong Concert [...]
SEOUL, June 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Pianist Lim Yunchan said Thursday nothing has changed since his recent win in a prestigious international piano competition in the United States and he will practice more to improve his skills. “Nothing has changed,” Lim said during a press conference at his school in southern Seoul to mark his [...]
SEOUL, June 19 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean pianist Lim Yunchan has won the top prize in a prestigious international piano competition in the United States, becoming the youngest-ever winner of the 60-year-old contest, its website showed Sunday. Lim, the 18-year-old student of the Korea National University of Arts, clinched the gold in the finals [...]