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Yunchan Lim

piano

Since becoming the youngest person to ever win gold at the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition at the age of 18 in 2022, Yunchan Lim’s ascent to international stardom has been meteoric. Marin Alsop expressed: “Yunchan is that rare artist who brings profound musicality and prodigious technique organically together.”

In the years following his Cliburn win, Lim made successful orchestral debuts with the New York, Los Angeles, Munich and Seoul philharmonic orchestras, as well as the Chicago, Lucerne, BBC, Boston and Tokyo symphony orchestras, among others. Recital appearances include performances at Carnegie Hall, Verbier Festival, Wigmore Hall, the Concertgebouw and Suntory Hall, among other major stages.

Lim’s 2024-25 season highlights include orchestral debuts with Washington National Symphony, London Symphony, Royal Philharmonic, Vienna Radio Symphony, Berlin Radio Symphony and WDR Symphony orchestras, as well as returning to New York Philharmonic, Lucerne Symphony Orchestra and Orchestra de Paris. This season will also see his recital debut at the Kennedy Center and a return to Carnegie Hall.

As an exclusive Decca Classics recording artist, Lim’s acclaimed debut studio album, Chopin’s Études Opuses 10 and 25, has gone double platinum in South Korea and topped the classical charts around the world. His previous releases include Liszt’s Transcendental Études (Steinway & Sons); Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5, Emperor (Universal Music Group); and his appearance on KBS’ 2020 Young Musicians of Korea album.

Born in Siheung, Korea, Yunchan Lim began piano lessons at age 7. He was accepted into the Korea National Institute for the Gifted in Arts at age 13, where he met his teacher and mentor, Minsoo Sohn. In 2019, aged only 15, he became the youngest person to win Korea’s IsangYun International Competition. Lim currently studies at the New England Conservatory of Music with his teacher Minsoo Sohn.