“Perfect pianist” Lim Yun-chan, 20, wins two British Grammar Phone Awards

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The first Korean pianist to
Piano Category – Young Artist Award
2 out of 3 nominated albums ranked 1st and 2nd respectively
“Thank you for the people who are included in my music”

Pianist Lim Yun-chan won two categories at the British Gramophone Awards, known as the world’s most prestigious album award, on the evening of the 2nd (local time). This is the first time a Korean pianist has received this award. The photo shows Lim Yun-chan performing at a recital held at the Esplanade Concert Hall in Singapore in July this year. Photo source: Lim Yun-chan’s Instagram, ⓒAlvin

Pianist Lim Yun-chan (20) won two categories, including the piano category award and the young artist award, at the Gramophone Classical Music Awards (Grammerphone Awards) held in London, England on the evening of the 2nd (local time). This is the first time that a Korean pianist has won the Gramophone Award, and the first time that a Korean has won two Gramophone Award categories simultaneously.

The Gramophone Award has been awarded every year since 1977 by Gramophone, a British classical music magazine, and is considered the world’s most prestigious classical album award. Currently, awards are given in 11 categories, including piano, instrumental music, orchestra, and opera.

Among the three albums that were finalists in the piano category, Lim Yun-chan won the award for the Chopin Etudes album, and the Liszt Transcendental Artistic Etudes performed by Lim Yun-chan was also a finalist. Lim Yun-chan is also the first pianist to have two albums nominated as finalists for the Gramophone Awards. The Chopin Etudes were ahead of the Transcendental Technique Etudes by one vote, and the top two albums in this category went to Lim Yun-chan. The other shortlisted work is a collection of piano works by Bartok, Janacek, and Szymanovsky performed by Piotr Anderszewski.

Among the Korean winners of the Gramophone Award in the past, Kyung-hwa Chung won the chamber music award in 1990 for her violin sonata recording by Respighi and others, and Young-ju Jang (Sarah Jang) received the Young Artist Award in 1993. In 1994, Kyung-hwa Chung won the Concerto Award for her album of Bartok’s Violin Concerto, winning her second Gramophone Award, and in 2003, Hanna Jang received the Concerto Award for her album of Prokofiev’s Orchestra Concerto.

At the awards ceremony on the 2nd, Lim Yun-chan received great applause for his performance of Liszt’s ‘Petrarch Sonnet No. 104’. In a review of the piano category award published online, critic Rob Cohen said, “Yoonchan Lim is a player with his own personality, but he also possesses the best characteristics of his predecessors, such as Pollini’s technique and Corto’s speaking tone. “No other recording of this song can give more,” he praised. In the ‘Young Artist Award’ review, critic Tim Parry said, “Yunchan Lim is a pianist who not only has technique, but also imagination, rich touch, and the perfect means to express it.”

After the awards ceremony, Lim Yun-chan said, “From the way my parents spoke, everything I saw, felt, and learned is incorporated into my music. “I and my music owe a lot of gratitude to the people around me,” he said.

This year’s Album of the Year Award, which is the grand prize for the Gramophone Awards, went to Izai’s Unaccompanied Violin Sonata album performed by American violinist Hilary Hahn. This album also won the Gramophone Award for instrumental music.

Lim Yun-chan is scheduled to perform Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 2 in five performances in Korea by the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonic Orchestra conducted by Paavo Järvi, to be held from December 17th to 22nd.

Yoo Yun-jong, cultural reporter [email protected]

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2024-10-04 02:29:49

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