Yunchan Lim is 20 today. 20! Two years ago, Lim became the youngest person ever to win the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, at the age of 18. Most recent information indicates that he is currently a student at the New England Conservatory of Music, but he’s already playing recitals at Carnegie Hall and appearing as soloist with the world’s great orchestras. He’s not old enough to legally take a drink, but he can play Liszt’s “Transcendental Etudes” like nobody else.
His Cliburn final round performance of the Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 3 has been viewed on YouTube over 14 million times.
But nobody cares about classical music, right?
Happy birthday, Yunchan Lim!

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