South Korean pianist Yunchan Lim, is the talk of the classical music world after winning the Van Cliburn competition — he plays in San Jose Sept. 18.
In June of 1988, to inaugurate its 500,000th handcrafted piano, Steinway & Sons threw a glamorous New York gala attended by Van Cliburn, Lazar Berman, Shura Cherkassky and other acclaimed pianists. But the honor of playing the 500,000th piano for the first time in public was given to a little-known 10-year-old Korean musician who, as the emcee put it, was meant to symbolize “the future of piano music.
Young musicians captivate the music world with stunning regularity, but rarely to Lim’s extent. He has created a fervor and excitement that borders on pandemonium. Tickets for Sunday’s concert at the Montgomery Theater sold-out in just 10 seconds, organizers say. The recital“I don’t think I was in my best condition at the Cliburn competition,” Lim, who began playing the piano at age 7, told us.
Music director laureate of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop, who conducted Lim in Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, was seen shedding a rare tear onstage following Lim’s performance. The gesture was captured in a video that has since generated nearly 8 million views on YouTube.
“Maybe not now, but at the time, I remembered enough to say the words of the book without looking at it, and I think it really meant I was inspired by Dante.”
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