Yunchan Lim wins Piano category at Gramophone Awards 2024

Monday, October 7, 2024

The South Korean pianist was also named Gramophone's Young Artist of the Year at this year's ceremony

Yunchan Lim receives Gramophone's Piano Award from International Piano editor Tim Parry
Yunchan Lim receives Gramophone's Piano Award from International Piano editor Tim Parry

At the Gramophone Classical Music Awards ceremony on 2 October, International Piano's editor Tim Parry presented Yunchan Lim with Gramophone's Piano Award for his recording of Chopin’s Études on Decca. The 20-year-old pianist was also named Gramophone's Artist of the Year.

Lim's performance of Liszt's Études d’exécution transcendante, recorded at the semi-final of the 2022 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, was also shortlisted for the piano category making him the first pianist to have two albums shortlisted in the same year of the Gramophone Awards.

Bertrand Chamayou won the Concept Album Award for Letter(s) to Erik Satie, while the Chamber category was topped by a recording of Schumann's Piano Quartet & Quintet by Isabelle Faust, Anne Katharina Schreiber, Antoine Tamestit, Jean-Guihen Queyras and Alexander Melnikov.

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