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Lim Yan (Pianist)

2006 Young Artist Award recipient Lim Yan started playing the piano at the age of five and was a student of Ms Lim Tshui Ling before leaving for Manchester in 1993. There, he attended Chetham’s School of Music under the tutelage of first David Hartigan and later Ronan O’Hora, who was also his tutor at the University of Manchester and the Royal Northern College of Music.

In the 1997 (Singapore) National Piano and Violin Competition, Yan was awarded first prize in the Piano Open category. Other notable competition results include: grand finalist in the 1994 Audi Junior Musician (UK); the Joan Davies Memorial Prize and the Philip Crawshaw Memorial Prize at the 1998 Royal Over-Seas League Music Competition; second place in the 2001 Sheffield Piano Competition and winner of the 2001 Karic International Piano Comeptition. He was also awarded the Silver Medal from the Worshipful Company of Musicians.

A seasoned recitalist and concerto soloist, Yan’s performances have taken him all over Europe and Asia. He has given two recitals at the Cheltenham Festival and played concert tours in Serbia with the Belgrade Radio Orchestra and in Sweden with Vägus. In Bacau, Romania, he collaborated with the “Mihail Jora” Philharmonic; in Hanoi with the Vietnam National Symphony Orchestra; and at the 2010 Beijing International Piano Festival he worked with the China Radio-Film Symphony Orchestra. When the Singapore National Youth Orchestra was invited to the 2011 Aberdeen International Youth Festival, he was the soloist in Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No.2 with conductor Darrell Ang.

Nearer home, Yan has appeared with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra in such works as Rachmaninov’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini and Grieg’s Piano Concerto. He was also the soloist for the visit of the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra in April 2009. Over the course of three concerts in June 2012, he completed a cycle of all five Beethoven Piano Concertos as well as the Triple Concerto with Grace Lee and Lin Juan, together with The Philharmonic Orchestra and conductor Lim Yau; and also performed the Choral Fantasy as part of the Esplanade’s tenth anniversary celebrations later that year.

Currently based in Singapore, Yan has been on the faculty at the School of the Arts since its inception in 2008. He also teaches at the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music as well as the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts.

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