Sun 27 Sep 2026, 11.30am: Hyeyoon Park (violin)
With Juho Pohjonen (piano)
- Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827): Violin Sonata No. 5 in F Op. 24 ‘Spring’
- Benjamin Britten (1913-1976): Suite Op. 6: IV. Lullaby | II. March | V. Waltz
- Edvard Grieg (1843-1907): Violin Sonata No. 3 in C minor Op. 45
Hyeyoon Park’s debut concerto album, chosen by BBC Music Magazine as its Recording of the Month in January 2026, confirmed her place among today’s most expressive and thoughtful musicians. Since becoming the youngest ever winner of the ARD International Music Competition in Munich in 2009, the South Korean violinist has generated international critical acclaim with interpretations described as ‘breathtaking’ by the Süddeutsche Zeitung.
Yunchan Lim: Mozart in Focus
Critical superlatives fall short where Yunchan Lim is concerned. The South Korean pianist’s artistry, rooted in his total devotion to music making, exceeds the powers of verbal description, such is its magic.
His strikingly delicate, deliciously crafted performances of Mozart’s Piano Sonata No. 9 K311 and Piano Concerto No. 22 K482 at the 2022 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition helped propel him to become the youngest winner in the quadrennial event’s history. Tickets for Wigmore Hall’s Yunchan Lim Mozart Cycle are sure to be among the season’s most coveted.
Thu 15 Oct & Fri 16 Oct 2026, 7.30pm
- Piano Sonata in C K279
- Piano Sonata in D K284
- Fantasia in D minor K397
- Piano Sonata in F K332
- Piano Sonata in A minor K310
A mounting harvest of five-star reviews bear witness to the astonishing artistry of Yunchan Lim. The stellar trajectory of the South Korean pianist’s career since he became the youngest ever winner of the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in 2022 has been as remarkable as his gilt-edged technique and profound artistry. His all-Mozart programme, not to be missed, includes the beguiling Fantasia in D minor and the young composer’s joyful Piano Sonata No. 1 in C K279.
Tue 8 Dec & Wed 9 Dec 2026, 7.30pm
- Piano Sonata in E flat K282
- Piano Sonata in B flat K333
- Piano Sonata in D K311
- Piano Sonata in C K309
- Piano Sonata in A K331
Yunchan Lim’s Mozart Cycle at Wigmore Hall promises to be not just one of the highlights of the 2026/27 Season but also a series that lives forever in the memory. He begins by pairing the teenaged composer’s Sonata in E flat with the B flat Sonata K333, written as a showpiece for one of his early winter seasons as a freelance musician in Vienna. The recital’s second half includes K311, which opens with what one scholar has described as ‘a firework of good spirits, bustling and crackling with life’.
Thu 1 Oct 2026, 1.00pm: Yeol Eum Son
- Ignacy Jan Paderewski (1860-1941): Humoresques de concert Op. 14 (selection)
- Alicia de Larrocha (1923-2009): Sonata antigua
- Wanda Landowska (1897-1959): Feu follet | Valse in E minor
- Tatiana Nikolayeva (1924-1993): Elegy
- Wilhelm Kempff (1895-1991): Ischia Suite Op. 68 – IV. Notturno
- Alexis Weissenberg (1929-2012): Albumblatt | Schlittenfahrt | Étude
- Walter Gieseking (1895-1956): 3 Tanzimprovisationen
- Friedrich Gulda (1930-2000): Play piano Play ‘10 Pieces for Yuko’: No. 8 Tempo giusto e risoluto | No. 9 Allegro, dolce | No. 10 Allegro pesante
- Earl Wild (1915-2010): Reminiscences of Snow White
Armed with phenomenal technical powers and the ability to produce spontaneous and poetic insights at will, Yeol Eum Son draws audiences deep into the works in her vast repertoire. She graces Wigmore Hall’s Piano Festival this lunchtime with a compelling programme of compositions by some of the last century’s greatest pianists, the hauntingly beautiful Elegy by Tatiana Nikolayeva and Wanda Landowska’s shimmering Feu follet among them.
Sun 25 Oct 2026: Soloists of the Kronberg Academy
- Seohyun Sarang Kim: violin
- Charlotte Spruit: violin
- Brian Isaacs: viola
- Benjamin Kruithof: cello
- Kirill Gerstein: piano
11.30am
- Claude Debussy (1862-1918): Cello Sonata
- Robert Schumann (1810-1856): F-A-E Sonata WoO. 22 – II. Intermezzo
- Johannes Brahms (1833-1897): F-A-E Sonata WoO. 22 – III. Scherzo in C minor
- Robert Schumann: Adagio and Allegro in A flat Op. 70
- Claude Debussy: Violin Sonata in G minor
The supremely talented Soloists of the Kronberg Academy present Wigmore Hall audiences with the chance to hear the next generation of world-class chamber musicians. Their choice of repertoire includes two movements from the F-A-E Sonata, a collaborative work by Robert Schumann, the young Brahms and Schumann’s pupil Albert Dietrich. The concert is framed by Debussy’s mature, ravishingly beautiful Cello Sonata and his late Violin Sonata, a luminous and harmonically daring work that crowns his final creative period.
7.30pm
- Johannes Brahms (1833-1897): Piano Quintet in F minor Op. 34
- Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904): Piano Quintet No. 2 in A Op. 81
Kirill Gerstein, Principal Professor in the Kronberg Academy study programmes since 2018, once again joins four of the Academy’s exceptional young musicians this evening. They open with Brahms’s mighty Piano Quintet in F minor, a four-movement work of symphonic proportions, and follow it with Dvořák’s comparably great Second Piano Quintet, a richly lyrical staple of the chamber music repertoire since its first performance in 1888.
Mon 30 Nov 2026, 1.00pm: Bomsori Kim (violin)
with Thomas Hoppe piano
- Ignacy Jan Paderewski (1860-1941): Violin Sonata in A minor Op. 13
- Karol Szymanowski (1882-1937): Myths Op. 30 – The Spring of Arethusa
- Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924): Violin Sonata No. 1 in A Op. 13
‘The artistic and personal rapport between the players was evident, as was the sense of “shared mission” to award great music the utmost advocacy. Mission accomplished,’ wrote Edinburgh Music Review of Bomsori Kim’s recital with Thomas Hoppe at the 2025 Edinburgh International Festival. The South Korean violinist and her regular duo partner continue their focus on the music of Poland with the first of Szymanowski’s Myths trio and the big-boned sonata that Paderewski composed for Pablo de Sarasate.