Yunchan Lim, piano

With just one concert—his stunning final-round performance of Rachmaninoff’s Third Piano Concerto to clinch the 2022 Cliburn Competition—pianist Yunchan Lim captured the classical music world’s attention. He wowed Boston audiences in 2024 with sold-out appearances at the Boston Symphony Orchestra and with the Orchestre de Paris under Klaus Mäkelä on the Celebrity Series, both in Rachmaninoff concertos.

Lim returns for his Celebrity Series solo recital debut to make a very different artistic statement. Trading an orchestra’s might for a single piano at center stage, and late Romantic passion for Baroque clarity, Lim takes on a pinnacle of the keyboard repertoire that generations of pianists have used to define and hone their artistry: Bach’s Goldberg Variations.

In Bach keyboard works, Lim “weighted the counterpoints so perfectly, and deployed such a subtle metrical flexibility, that every inner detail seemed to be imbued with a character of its own” (The Times). Don’t miss Yunchan Lim’s Celebrity Series recital debut: be amazed by a young artist who can do it all.

This performance is generously supported by
Dorothy Altman Weber, in memory of Stephen R. Weber.