Lim Yun-chan to Perform with Mentor Son Min-soo at KBS Symphony Orchestra's 70th Anniversary Concert

Pianists Lim Yun-chan and his former teacher Son Min-soo are set to reunite on stage for a special performance of Mozart's Concerto for Two Pianos No. 10, K. 365.

The collaboration will take place on July 22 at the Lotte Concert Hall in Seoul as part of the KBS Symphony Orchestra's 70th-anniversary concert. Masato Suzuki, who previously conducted Lim Yun-chan's performance with Camerata Salzburg, will lead the orchestra for this event.

Son Min-soo, recognized as the educator who discovered and guided the prodigious talent Lim Yun-chan, leading him to become the youngest winner of the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, has a deep pedagogical relationship with Lim. Their connection, forged at the Korea National University of Arts' gifted program and continued at the New England Conservatory, highlights a profound mutual trust.

This marks their third official collaboration, following performances of Ravel's "La Valse" in 2021 and works by Brahms, Rachmaninoff, and Richard Strauss in 2023, which spanned Korean stages and the Swiss Verbier Festival.

The KBS Symphony Orchestra stated that the performance of Mozart's piece, where two pianos converse to complete a single composition, symbolically represents the "succession of tradition" and the "growth of future generations" for their 70th anniversary. The concert will open with Mozart's "Don Giovanni" Overture and conclude with Dvořák's Symphony No. 8, chosen for its optimistic message of hope and new beginnings.