When 18-year-old Yunchan Lim won the 2022 Van Cliburn Competition with Rachmaninoff’s Third Piano Concerto, conductor Marin Alsop had tears in her eyes. The jury was no less moved by what they had just heard. Here was someone who simply played differently: powerful and tender, mature and electrifying at the same time, as juror Stephen Hough put it. His colleague Jean-Efflam Bavouzet admitted in astonishment: “I was simply speechless.” The young Korean’s career took off like a rocket afterward — despite the fact that he avoids all showmanship and lives solely for the music, like a priest for God. He now makes his Lucerne Festival debut with Maurice Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G major, a work that shifts between Basque folk color and Mozartian elegance. It promises to be an event. The Czech Philharmonic will partner with him and bookend his appearance with two signature works from their homeland. Chief Conductor Semyon Bychkov will open the evening with the quintessential Czech classic, Bedřich Smetana’s world-famous Vltava. And after intermission comes Antonín Dvořák’s Seventh Symphony, arguably his most heroic.

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Czech Philharmonic | Semyon Bychkov | Yunchan Lim

KKL Luzern Concert Hall

After shaking the foundations of Southam Hall with her fiery NACO debut last season, pianist Yeol Eum Son makes her highly anticipated return to perform Maurice Ravel's glittering Concerto in G for piano and orchestra. Inspired by the Basque folk songs of his childhood and the hot jazz he heard while on tour in Harlem and New Orleans during the Roaring '20s, Ravel's captivating concerto journeys between moments of whip-crack humor and sweet nostalgia.

Shelley & Yeol Eum Son

Southam Hall

Departmental Recitals showcase performance departments through its students. Featuring various students and repertoire, and curated by the faculty, performances in this recital highlight SFCM programs and the wide range of study.

Piano Department Recital

San Francisco Conservatory of Music

The NAC and the uOttawa School of Music have a long-standing relationship. Among other events, the NAC hosts uOttawa School of Music students in chamber recitals offered in the NAC's Fourth Stage.

This series of three concerts showcases students in the uOttawa School of Music who represent excellence in the performance sector. Nominated by their professors, students from a variety of instrument areas are selected to perform solo recitals and the National Arts Centre, and one concert of the series is programmed with uOttawa's best chamber music ensembles.

Maurice RAVEL

Events

Past events

Sep 8, 2026

Czech Philharmonic | Semyon Bychkov | Yunchan Lim · Lucerne Festival

May 14, 2025

Shelley & Yeol Eum Son ·

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