Wednesday 11th July


HJ Lim Assembly Room, Town Hall 7.30pm (Bar provided) £18, £15, Under 25s £5


Programme: Rachmaninoff Etudes-Tableaux Op. 33, Nos. 1 – 6 Rachmaninoff Etudes-Tableaux Op. 39, Nos. 1 – 9 Beethoven Sonata Op. 106, Hammerklavier


Another of our Far East stars of the future, HJ Lim exploded onto the international music scene in November 2009 when a recital in Switzerland of Rachmaninoff’s Etudes-Tableaux was uploaded to YouTube. The unprecedented online traffic captured the imagination of music lovers around the world. Less than a year later she gave the complete Beethoven Sonata cycle over 8 consecutive days in Paris, and this interpretation was subsequently recorded for EMI Classics. This young Korean pianist, who took herself to France to further


her musical education at the age of just twelve, has won a host of prizes and diplomas and is well on course for a glittering career.


HJ plays Beethoven’s masterwork sonata known as the Hammerklavier and begins her programme with a selection of the music that started her international career: Rachmaninoff’s Etudes-Tableaux, an emotionally indispensable part of the virtuoso pianist’s repertoire that Rachmaninoff originally wrote for himself to play on his worldwide concert tours.


f£5or under 25’s


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