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Listen to Annie Yim and the Minerva Piano Trio on BBC Radio 3's In Tune programme for an interview and performance from the new album Dance! Available for 30 days from 16th November 2022. Listen here (from around 16').  

Latest review of Dance! receives 'Recommended':

"An attractive album...nuanced and imaginative creativity"
"Pianist Annie Yim...delineated sonorities and elegance of touch"
"Veins of fantasy and heady evocation"

- Ates Orga, International Piano Magazine, October 2022

Annie Yim's first album with the Minerva Piano will be released on SOMM Recordings on October 21st 2022. It includes Annie's new arrangement of Pulitzer Prize winning composer Caroline Shaw's Gustave Le Gray. Find out more here. 

A new single release of Annie's performance of Robert Schumann's Dreaming (Träumerei) from Kinderszenen Op. 15 is now available on all streaming platforms.

I am excited to have been awarded Help Musician UK's Do It Different Award which supports the making of the Minerva Piano Trio's debut album with SOMM Recordings. Details of the album are as follows:

Igor Stravinsky (arr. Birchall) Pulcinella Suite
Richard Birchall Contours
Caroline Shaw (arr. Yim) Gustave Le Gray
Cheryl Frances-Hoad My Fleeting Angel
Maurice Ravel (arr. Knotts) Scenes from Daphnis & Chloé 

It was a pleasure to stage my second MusicArt collaboration with Ordovas  – Philip Glass Piano Etudes | Richard Serra Drawings – as part of the gallery’s 10th anniversary exhibition in December 2021. The concert celebrated the decades-long close artistic friendship between Serra and Glass. I performed Glass’s mesmerising Piano Etudes: 2, 3, 5, 6 and 9 alongside Serra's drawings, Orchard Street #82, 2018.

Watch the video of Etude No. 6 filmed by Classic FM.

The full video with highlights from the concert is available on YouTube.  

I am grateful to Arts Council England for awarding the grant, Developing Your Creative Practice, which enables me to explore new directions for my MusicArt project in 2021. I aim to connect music with nature and develop new works incorporating sound design, drawing directly from outdoor settings, such as woodlands, farms and gardens.

Learn more about MusicArt at www.musicart.london.

'[Annie Yim] has been on an unscheduled life-changing journey that has taken her not only through the stages of loss, but far away from the world of performance—and then back again, in the most unexpected of settings.' (Aug 2020, Georgia Straight, Vancouver)

Read the feature article here.

MUSICART: CREATING DIALOGUES ACROSS THE ARTS

This book chapter by Annie Yim, in conversation with Christopher Wiley has been published by Palgrave Macmillan in the volume Researching and Writing about Contemporary Art and Artists (eds. Wiley and Pace).  

Preview of the book chapter here

SIX QUESTIONS WITH CONCERT PIANIST AND CREATIVE COLLABORATOR, ANNIE YIM (March 2020) 

Read interview here.

HITTING THE RIGHT NOTES (May 2019)

'My conceptual concerts initiate dialogue using various art forms. I wanted to produce works that are heartfelt and thought-provoking. They are a labour of love.'

Read full feature here.

Review by ArtMuseLondon (Dec 2018)

'Cage and Rauschenberg take on a new life with MusicArt'
'Nuanced, precise playing...a bold enterprise' 'Cage had woven his magic as had MusicArt.

Read full review here.

Listen to Annie Yim on BBC Radio 3 interview (Dec 2018) about her upcoming MusicArt project at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac and live performance of Ravel, John Cage and Raymond Yiu.

Listen here.

An in-depth interview with Interlude HK: ‘In touch with Annie Yim, Pianist’.

Read interview here. 

Previews of Conceptual Concert in Three Acts by MusicArt, a cross-disciplinary world premiere featuring composer Raymond Yiu, poet Kayo Chingonyi, and pianist Annie Yim, in collaboration with Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac:

Classical Music Magazine.

Interlude HK.

"An intriguing and highly original concert by pianist Annie Yim”

Full review of MusicArt's The Poet Speaks: From Debussy to Pärt here.

Writing About Contemporary Artists: Challenges, Practices and Complexities.

Annie will give a Keynote Concert and Dialogue for her MusicArt London project alongside renowned artist Christopher Le Brun, President of The Royal Academy of Arts, at an international, multi-disciplinary three-day conference at the University of Surrey, UK. In conversation with Christopher Wiley, chair of the Conference, Annie will explore in-depth her ongoing collaboration with Le Brun. She will give performances of a specially commissioned work by Richard Birchall (2015) as well as music by Scriabin, Rachmaninov, Berg, and Debussy.

Please visit conference website for more information.

Annie talks about the moment when she first fell in love with music, her recent cross-art collaborations,
and more on Meet the Artist.

Full interview here.

An interview with Annie Yim and choreographer Patricia Okenwa about MusicArt London’s 2017 project Scenes from Daphnis and Chloe as part of the Minerva Piano Trio’s residency at St John’s Smith Square.

Read the interview by St John’s Smith Square here.