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Também achei um pouco rápido e um pouco inexpressiva. Gosto da leitura de Emil Gilels. Mas é uma brilhante pianista, sem dúvida.

Do SUL, é óbvio.

"Born in South Korea, HJ Lim (Hyun-Jung), 24, emigrated on her own to study in France at the age of 12."

http://uk.yamaha.com/en/news_events/artists/hjlimemi/

HJ LIM – BIOGRAPHY

Born in South Korea, HJ Lim (Hyun-Jung), 24, emigrated on her own to study in France at the age of 12. At 15, she became youngest person to ever earn Diplome d’Etudes Musicales Complete (Normandy). She continued her studies, and graduated with First Prize and Highest Distinction from the Conservatoire National de Rouen and the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique de Paris. In 2007, she was awarded First Prize by unanimous decision at the FLAME International Piano Competition in Paris. 

“This exceptionally gifted artist ignited an incomparably fiery pianistic space...with super-virtuoso sound images, spectacular and extremely bewitching...an incredible enchantment of possibilities of pianistic expressions, subtle and grandiose, magically performed by the phenomenal virtuoso.” 
- Basellandschaftlicher Zeitung

HJ, a Yamaha Exclusive Artist, first came to the world’s attention when – in order for her family to be able to watch her perform whilst they were home in Korea – she uploaded a video of a recital to YouTube. This personal act, designed to bridge the geographic divide between her native and adopted homes, generated unprecedented interest and nearly half a million views.

On joining EMI Classics, HJ writes, “Having grown up with the recordings of Callas, Cortot, Cziffra, Samson François and the Beethoven sonatas of Schnabel, EMI has represented classical music paradise for me. I am thrilled to be entering this paradise.”

Andrew Cornall, Vice President of A&R for EMI Classics, says, “It is rare to come across a young artist not only with real artistic maturity and depth of intellectual thought but also with a charismatic and virtuosic way of imparting both those talents. HJ Lim is one these artists and it will be a pleasure for EMI to travel her musical journeys with her.”

 LIM’S FIRST PROJECT UNDER THIS NEW AGREEMENT WILL BE THE RELEASE OF 
THE COMPLETE BEETHOVEN PIANO SONATAS IN 2012 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: EMI Classics is thrilled to announce that dynamic pianist HJ Lim has signed an exclusive recording contract with the label. Her first project, under the new agreement, will be a spectacular recording of the Complete Beethoven Piano Sonatas. The sonatas, which have been curated by Lim into eight themes, will be released as four 2CD sets in January, April, July and October 2012. A complete box set with a bonus DVD will also be available from October 2012.

Maggie O’Herlihy, HJ’s manager at HarrisonParrott adds, "I am delighted HJ Lim has made EMI Classics her recording home. The range of projects she will tackle over the coming years with the support and vision of the EMI team will give this extraordinary artist the ideal platform on which to reach her ever growing number of followers worldwide."

For her first recording, HJ has taken on one of the most monumental challenges in classical music, the Complete Beethoven Piano Sonatas. Recorded on Yamaha’s Flagship CFX concert grand piano in July and August 2011, Lim has grouped the sonatas into eight themes including The Eternal Feminine, Assertion of an Inflexible Personality, Resignation and Action, Extremes in Collision and Destiny. She first performed the complete cycle over eight days in Paris during August 2010. Of the Beethoven Sonatas, Lim writes: 

“A theoretical analysis of Beethoven's sonatas has been done many times; my own emphasizes rather the emotional, human, spiritual and psychological. This is why I view these sonatas by Beethoven as the most intense diary, in which genius expresses, or even illustrates, all the facets of a life that is sometimes sublimated, and idealized, and often deeply moving by its realism.”

HJ Lim signed her contract at EMI’s London headquarters on 24th August. She was joined by EMI Classics’ COO Amanda Cupples, Andrew Cornall, Vice President of Legal and Business Affairs Lorna Aizlewood, Vice President of Marketing Azhar Malik, Vice President of Finance Catherine Fairlamb, HarrisonParrott’s Chairman and Joint Managing Director Jasper Parrott, Maggie O’Herlihy and members of the EMI and HarrisonParrott teams.

In November 2009, HJ exploded onto the international music scene when a recital at the Stadtcasino Basel, which included Rachmaninov’s complete Etudes-Tableaux and Chopin’s complete Etudes, was uploaded to YouTube. The unprecedented online traffic captured the imagination of the industry and audiences around the world. 

In August 2010, HJ performed the complete Beethoven Piano Sonatas over eight consecutive days in Paris and one year later she went on to record the complete cycle for EMI Classics with whom she now records exclusively. 

Upcoming concerto appearances include performances with the Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra of Moscow Radio at the Tonhalle Zurich, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, Bilkent Symphony, Hofer Symphoniker, Orquestra Sinfónica Metropolitana as well as recital tours of the UK and South America. 

HJ began her musical studies at the age of three under Jong-Sun Kim and her prodigious talent was quickly recognised. Aged twelve, HJ decided of her own accord to relocate to France where she immersed herself in the musical world of the composers who had shaped her early years. Five months later she graduated from the Conservatoire National Région de Compiègne with First Prize and highest distinction in the class of Marc Hoppeler. At fifteen, she became the youngest ever person to obtain the "Diplôme d'Etudes Musicales Complètes" of Normandy in France.

Subsequently HJ was awarded the "Perfectionnement Cycle” for chamber music and piano at the Conservatoire National de Rouen and she received First Prize and the highest distinction. 

In 2003 HJ Lim commenced her studies at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris under Henri Barda and three years later she graduated with First Prize and obtained the "Diplôme de Formation Supérieur", again, with highest distinctions. While there she studied conducting and was chosen to direct the Orchestre des Lauréats in works including Handel’s Alcina, Schoenberg’s Kammersymphonie, Haydn’s Symphony No. 44 and Britten’s Les Illuminations.

HJ Lim currently resides in Switzerland. 

Pois é, tocar é uma coisa, interpretar é outra.