Pianist Yunchan Lim Interview Sep 30 2021

Hello KOPIS subscribers, I'm Yunchan Lim, the pianist [Piano] Horowitz No one can imitate his piano sound. [Yunchan Lim] [Yunchan Lim] A strange person. If I had a child like me, I wouldn't like it. While playing the piano, I became so sensitive that I couldn't handle it. [Time Traveler] I want to go to Paris where Liszt and Chopin were together. I want to participate in Liszt's performance as an audience in the era when there was no line between performers and audiences. [Favorite Composer] It changes every day, Schubert for today. He pioneered his own art without the patronage of aristocrats. He's been lonely all his life but I respect him. I want to live like that....ah I don't want to be lonely, but I want to pave my own way like him. [Repertoire I want to play] All the Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier All Beethoven's Sonatas All Mozart's Sonatas All Shostakovich's preludes and fugues If you are a pianist, you should play those pieces. [Role Model] The basic model is Mr. Minsoo Sohn and others change every day. [Role model of the day] Not yet today. [Role model of yesterday] I practiced Liszt yesterday so Liszt [Recital vs Concerto] A Concerto for today. [So yesterday?] Yesterday was a recital. [ Why?] I heard Rachmaninoff No. 3 when I came here, so I suddenly wanted to do it. [The first song I want to play at the age of 20] All Mozart's sonatas. My roots are Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier, Beethoven's sonatas and Mozart's sonatas. So I'm just thinking of taking the first step with Mozart's sonatas. [at 30?] At that time, Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier and keyboard concertos. [At 40?] Mr. Minsoo Sohn played Beethoven's sonatas in his 40s, I'll take down such roots and play all Beethoven's in my 40s. [Minsoo Sohn] My teacher is religion to me, so I believe everything in him. He also supports me sincerely. [Liszt Transcendental] I wouldn't have made this choice if I was a little younger or a little bit older. It's my first recital at the Lotte Concert Hall so I don't want to play Liszt sonatas or Schumann fantasie like everyone else. As soon as I saw the title Transcendental Etudes on YouTube, I thought there is nothing more intense than this. But when I actually practiced it, I regretted it because it was the most difficult piece I've ever done. My teacher said 'It is impossible, but you have to make a miracle.' I need to make a miracle, but I have a week left and I don't know what will happen.