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The pianist who reduces conductors to tears

The Guardian Weekly

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July 26, 2024

Yunchan Lim's dazzling talent has brought him fame at home in Korea. The 20-year-old has the world at his feet now as he prepares tomake his Proms debut

- Imogen Tilden

The pianist who reduces conductors to tears

Superlatives cluster around Yunchan Lim. At 18, he was the youngest pianist ever to win the prestigious Van Cliburn International piano competition in Texas. The webcast of his performance of Rachmaninov's Third Piano Concerto went viral as "the pianist whose playing was so beautiful it reduced a conductor to tears". Watch the Korean musician's gold medal-winning performance, which now has amassed 15m views on YouTube, and you can indeed see Marin Alsop wipe her eyes at the end.

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