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Yunchan Lim

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Yunchan Lim was born on March 20, 2004, in Siheung, South Korea, and began piano at age seven, entering the Music Academy of Seoul Arts Center at eight before serious study from age nine with Kay Kyung Eun Kim. He continued at the Korea National University of Arts under Minsoo Sohn and, in September 2023, transferred with Sohn to the New England Conservatory in Boston.

Lim became the youngest-ever gold medalist in the history of the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition when he won in 2022 at age 18, also taking the Audience Award and Best Performance of a New Work; his competition performance of Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3 became the most-viewed recording of the work on YouTube. Signed to Decca Classics in 2023, his 2024 Chopin Études album won the Gramophone Classical Music Award and was named 2025 BBC Music Magazine Recording of the Year, and he was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia list in 2023.

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Goldberg Variations, Variatio 1 a 1 Clav.— Johann Sebastian Bach
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Songs Without Words, Op. 85: No. 4, Andante sostenuto in D major— Felix Mendelssohn
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Sonata No. 2 in E-Flat Major, BWV 1031: Siciliano (arr. Kempff)— Johann Sebastian Bach
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Waltz in A Minor, Op. 34 No. 2 (“Valse brillante”)— Frédéric Chopin
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12 Études, Op. 25: No. 10 in B Minor— Frédéric Chopin
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12 Études, Op. 25: No. 11 in A Minor— Frédéric Chopin
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12 Études, Op. 25: No. 12 in C Minor— Frédéric Chopin
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12 Études, Op. 25: No. 9 in G-Flat Major— Frédéric Chopin
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12 Études, Op. 25: No. 8 in D-Flat Major— Frédéric Chopin
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12 Études, Op. 25: No. 7 in C-Sharp Minor— Frédéric Chopin
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12 Études, Op. 25: No. 6 in G-Sharp Minor— Frédéric Chopin
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12 Études, Op. 25: No. 5 in E Minor— Frédéric Chopin
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12 Études, Op. 25: No. 4 in A Minor— Frédéric Chopin
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12 Études, Op. 25: No. 3 in F Major— Frédéric Chopin
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12 Études, Op. 25: No. 2 in F Minor— Frédéric Chopin
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12 Études, Op. 25: No. 1 in A-Flat Major— Frédéric Chopin
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12 Études, Op. 10: No. 11 in E-Flat Major— Frédéric Chopin
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12 Études, Op. 10: No. 10 in A-Flat Major— Frédéric Chopin
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12 Études, Op. 10: No. 9 in F Minor— Frédéric Chopin
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12 Études, Op. 10: No. 8 in F Major— Frédéric Chopin
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12 Études, Op. 10: No. 7 in C Major— Frédéric Chopin
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12 Études, Op. 10: No. 5 in G-Flat Major— Frédéric Chopin
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12 Études, Op. 10: No. 4 in C-Sharp Minor— Frédéric Chopin
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12 Études, Op. 10: No. 2 in A Minor— Frédéric Chopin
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12 Études, Op. 10: No. 1 in C Major— Frédéric Chopin
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12 Études, Op. 10, No. 12— Frédéric Chopin
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12 Études, Op. 10, No. 6— Frédéric Chopin
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12 Études, Op. 10, No. 3— Frédéric Chopin
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Liebestraum No.3 [Live]— Franz Liszt
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