FIVE OF THE BEST

 

At 18 years old, Yunchan Lim of South Korea was the youngest ever gold-medallist at the 2022 Van Cliburn Competition. Watch him perform a stunning Liszt Chasse-neige:

 

 

 

Alim Beisembayev from Kazakhstan was the first prizewinner of the 2021 Leeds. His Ligeti Devil's Staircase etude had the audience on the edge of their seats: 

 

 

 

Bruce Liu from Canada won the 2021 Chopin International Piano Competition. Here he performs Chopin's Nocturne in C sharp minor: 

 

 

 

French pianist Alexandre Kantorow won the 2019 Moscow Competition and has since gone on to wow audiences all around the world. Here he performs Brahm's mighty Piano Sonata No 3: 

 

 

 

Can Çakmur from Turkey was the most recent first prize winner of the 2018 Hamamatsu International Piano Competition. Here he performs the Schubert Hungarian Melody D817:

 

 

main image: © Nabin Majarhan