About

Yechan Lim, a renowned Korean-American classical pianist, marked his John F. Kennedy Center of Performing Arts solo debut in 2011 and has won several prizes and awards, including Honorable Mention at 2021 YMIC International Competition, first prizes at the Second Korea Times Music Competition, the Lions of Virginia Bland Music Competition, the INPASS Music Competition, and Mason Symphony Concerto Competition both in 2019 and 2023 where he performed Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1 and Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 2 with Mason Symphony Orchestra.

​Lim's international performing career has taken him across the United States and East Asia with renowned musicians as a soloist and chamber musician with Seungwon Choi, the first Asian, the first disabled tenor to win the Metropolitan Opera Competition, Jinwoo Lee, the concertmaster of Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, and members of the major U.S Symphony Orchestras. Lim has performed at the Defense, Diplomacy, and Development Bush-Cheney Alumni Reunion in Washington, D.C. He was also featured at numerous Honors Recitals, Arts by George! and OLLI series at Dewberry School of Music, and Epiphany Tuesday Concert series and Music with the Angels Concert series in Washington D.C.

​Lim has earned his Bachelor and Master’s Degrees in Piano Performance at George Mason University Dewberry School of Music, where he has studied piano and chamber music with his acclaimed professor Dr. Anna Balakerskaia as a grateful recipient of multiple music scholarship awards. He has appeared in masterclasses with artists such as George Li, Simone Dinnerstein, Claire Huangci, Carlos Marín Rayo, and Jeremy Denk.

​"Very musical... superior level of playing"

Solomon Mikowsky