Writing | Lim Shi Han

Happy New Year

The new year is approaching, and for some of us that means new music! You eagerly retrieve your new book of Chopin Ballades from the...

Here are 4 pianists that I absolutely adore and have on more than one occasion affected me deeply. Andras Schiff Sir Andras Schiff is one...

It is difficult to pinpoint the exact definition of a “musician”. Is someone who plays soft background jazz at a restaurant a “musician”?...

Masterclass Programme Mozart - Piano Sonata No. 14 in C minor, K.457 Chopin - Piano Sonata No. 3 in B minor, Op. 58 Debussy - L’isle...

Masterclass Programme: Bach/Busoni - Chaconne in D minor, BMV 1004 Granados - Goyescas, Op. 11 Liszt/Gounod - Valse de l’opera Faust...

This essay aims to discern and clarify, if Igor Stravinsky is truly a composer of modernism, or simply a regressionist who reverts back...

What is it that makes a piano competition, or any competition rather, so alluring and seductive? Is it the yearning to perform, to...

Concert Programme Felix Mendelssohn – Fantasy in F-sharp minor, Op. 28 ‘Sonata écossaise’ Ludwig van Beethoven – Piano Sonata No. 21 in C...

Wong Chiyan’s performance left me lost for words, not in the expressive notion as to being too stunned for words, but rather the literal...

Concert Programme Joseph Haydn – Fantasy in C major, Hob. XVII: 4 Frédéric Chopin – Piano Sonata No. 2 in B flat minor, Op. 35 Claude...