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What's On 2023 | Friday 4th August 7:30
Haydn Piano Sonata in C major, Hob.XVI:50
Chopin Mazurka in A minor, Op. 17 No. 4
Rachmaninoff Piano Sonata No. 2 in B flat minor, Op. 36 (revised version)
20 min interval ------
Franck Piano Quintet in F minor
Friday 4th August 7:30 pm
St. John the Baptist Church, Elmore
Tickets £18.00 | Under 18s free
Limited tickets left
Victor Lim
Elmore Quartet
Victor Lim
Full Programme Information
Victor Lim - Joseph Haydn Piano Sonata in C major, Hob.XVI:50
Victor Lim - Frédéric Chopin Mazurka in A minor, Op.17 No.4
Victor Lim - Sergei Rachmaninoff Piano Sonata No.2 in B flat minor, Op.36 (revised version)
Victor Lim with the Elmore Quartet - César Franck Piano Quintet in F minor
Victor Lim
Described as a pianist with ‘with great possibilities of nuance and perfect flexibility’ (Revista Arta), South Korean-British pianist Victor Lim is establishing himself as a truly creative and versatile young musician.. Following his first public appearance in the televised BBC Young Musician of the Year in 2012, Victor has performed around the world in the UK, France, Germany, Austria, Norway, Denmark, Romania, China, Singapore and South Korea. Victor is a City Music Foundation Artist, Making Music UK’s Philip and Dorothy Green Young Artist and the winner of the 2021 RNCM Gold Medal.
As a musician with tireless curiosity for all genres of music, Victor’s repertoire ranges from Rameau to Kapustin and his interest in new music has led to recent work with Thomas Adès, Graham Fitkin and Stephen Hough. Victor’s affinity with the music of Beethoven has been recognised by two awards from the Beethoven Piano Society of Europe, whilst he is known to have a great personal passion for the works of Robert Schumann. Victor combines his active solo career with his great passion for chamber music. This season he has performed as a member of Manchester Collective and Manchester Camerata. He has previously collaborated with Karen Gomyo, Eszter Haffner, Susie Mészáros, Lara Andre’s Tomter and Sandrai Lied-Haga, and currently enjoys close duo partnerships with soprano Xiang Ting Teng and cellist Waynne Kwon with whom the duo won the 2020 Tunnell Trust Music Club Award. Victor was the founding member of the Louko Piano Trio who went on to win all of the chamber music prizes during their time at the Royal Northern College of Music.
An ardent advocate of community music, Victor works closely with Olympias Music Foundation in Manchester and is the Senior Creative Coordinator for Fingertips ASBL and has played a key role in the running of several projects including ‘Tune-in Nepal’, ‘Fingertips International Piano Competition’ and ‘Goldberg by 32 pianists’. Victor is currently the Head of Keyboard Studies at Rossall School, Associate Artist of International Young Musicians Academy and Leverhulme Fellow of Pro Corda. Victor trained at Wells Cathedral School with John Byrne and Richard Ormrod, then at the Royal Northern College of Music with Graham Scott, Jeremy Young and Murray McLachlan as an ABRSM scholar. Awards from Help Musicians UK and the Countess of Munster Musical Trust enabled Victor to continue his studies at the Royal Academy of Music in London with Michael Dussek, where he graduated with a Dip.RAM and received the Christian Carpenter Prize for the best final recital. After pursuing the Artist Diploma programme at the Norwegian Academy of Music, Victor now continues his studies with Kathryn Stott at the RNCM.
Elmore Quartet
‘Style, assurance and direction from the first bar – an interpretation whose confidence and polish didn’t preclude a sense of real drama.’ – Richard Bratby (classical writer and critic)
2023 Kirckman Concert Society Artists and Winners of the Tunnell Trust Awards 2021, the Elmore Quartet is a dynamic young ensemble founded in 2017 at the Royal Northern College of Music.
Since their formation in 2017, the Elmore Quartet have received guidance from some of the world’s leading chamber musicians including Donald Grant (Elias String Quartet), Petr Prause (Talich Quartet), Henk Guittart (Schoenberg Quartet), David Waterman (Endellion Quartet) and Marc Danel (Quatuor Danel).
In 2020, the Elmore Quartet were appointed as Studio Quartet at the RNCM and later that year were awarded second prize in the CAVATINA Intercollegiate Chamber Music Competition in Wigmore Hall. In 2021, the Quartet were appointed as Junior Fellows in Chamber Music at the Royal Northern College of Music, a position they currently still hold.
Over the last two years, the Quartet have enjoyed recording for BBC Radio 3 as well as performing regularly across the UK at venues which have included Wigmore Hall, Conway Hall, the Pitville Pump Room and Oxford’s Holywell Music Room.
The Quartet are also proud to have launched the Elmore Chamber Music Festival, which now takes place annually in August.
This year, the Quartet have enjoyed competing in the final of the Irene Steels-Wilsing International String Quartet Competition in Germany and are also delighted to have recently become members of the Netherlands String Quartet Academy (NSKA).
The Elmore Quartet are grateful to have received multiple festival invitations for 2023, which include Casa del Quartetto (Italy), Crans Montana Master Classes (Switzerland) and Residart Festival (Italy).