Classical Piano’s Newest Star Makes West Coast Debut
SPECIAL NOTE: THE LIVE CONCERT AT MONTGOMERY THEATER IS COMPLETELY SOLD OUT.
LIVE-STREAM ONLINE TICKETS ARE AVAILABLE: $40 per household. https://steinway.vbotickets.com/event/Yunchan_Lim_Livestream/76678
Watch the performance live or access the recording for 48 hours following the concert.
Yunchan Lim, who in June 2022 became the youngest pianist ever to win gold at the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, will be the featured performer in Steinway Society — The Bay Area’s 28th Season opening concert. Lim will make his West Coast debut at Montgomery Theatre in San Jose at 2:30 pm on Sunday, September 18th. Just 18 years old, Lim has made a meteoric ascent in the international classical music world.
The live concert (which is sold out) will also be livestreamed online during the performance and will be viewable for 48 hours following the concert. Program notes and a recorded pre-concert lecture by classical music expert Dr. Gary Lemco will be available on the Steinway Society website.
Lim’s Van Cliburn performances dazzled judges and audiences alike. Jury Chair Marin Alsop said, “Yunchan is that rare artist who brings profound musicality and prodigious technique naturally together.” The depth of his artistry and connection to listeners also secured him the Audience Award and the Award for Best Performance of a New Work.
Lim has performed across South Korea—including with the Korean Orchestra Festival, Korea Symphony, and Suwon and Busan Philharmonic Orchestras, among others—as well as in Madrid. He also participated in the “2020 Young Musicians of Korea” recording organized by the Korean Broadcasting System and released that November. A native of Siheung, Yunchan studies at the Korea National University of Arts under Minsoo Sohn.
Yunchan Lim’s Cliburn Semifinal Round performance of Liszt’s Transcendental Etudes “created a buzz throughout the international piano community” — his “intelligent virtuosity and total immersion into Liszt’s idiom truly defined transcendental”. - Gramophone