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At the most prestigious Van Cliburn Competition in North America, 18-year-old Yunchan Lim became the youngest winner last weekend.
MBC conducted an exclusive interview with Yunchan Lim, who is still in New York.
Surprisingly, Lim was the person who inspired his music the most, and he spoke of Ureuk, a gayageum player from the Shilla period.
Are you looking forward to it? I’ll listen to Lim’s story first, and then listen to the performance.
Correspondent Wang Jong-myung.
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Yunchan Lim came out with a gold medal at the Van Cliburn Competition.
It is said that he realized his popularity only after winning the championship and seeing texts sent by his friends.
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“I didn’t know anything, but now I got a call from my friends and it seems like something has happened.
The feeling of being the youngest to win was a surprise.
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“Actually, I don’t think it’s such a big achievement because I think it’s something that can make people interested in the contest for just three months because he was one of the least interested in the contest.”
At the age of 7, the motivation for finding a local piano academy was the same as any other boy in Korea.
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“I didn’t do anything, so I was a bit envious of those friends, and there was a Taekwondo swimming piano. So I thought that choosing one of them worked with my parents..”
There was a time when I thought, “I just want to go into the mountains and play the piano.”
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“When I said that I wanted to go to the mountain, it wasn’t that I really wanted to go to the mountain, it was just that I wanted to live for the sake of music.”
It was thanks to the habit of contemplation that music nurtured that the depth of speech became deeper than that of adults.
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“I think I will develop the habit of reviewing and reviewing, which was the most important thing for Beethoven, in my life. If you have bad things in your heart, the music becomes really bad. Because losing is the really scary thing about music.”
I also realized that growing up as a musician isn’t just about perfecting technique.
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“I started to play the piano well, and I had an absurd thought about what to do to communicate and communicate with the audience. It’s for…”
While talking about the person who inspired his music, Lim unexpectedly mentioned Ureuk, a gayageum player from the Silla period.
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“There’s a part of that is the sound of a certain gayageum by a certain teacher Ureuk who suddenly appears after he vomits a certain resentment, and it’s about a state that transcends everything.”
After the interview, he listened to the song he played while imagining Ureuk’s gayageum, which left only a record of being sad but not sad.
Video coverage: Ahn Jung-gyu, Lee Sang-do/Video editing: Lee Ji-young, Kim Jong-un
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