Education
Dong Minister Lim studied at the Moscow Conservatory, at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover and at Mannes College The New School for Music.
Dong Minister Lim studied at the Moscow Conservatory, at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover and at Mannes College The New School for Music.
Starting in September 2009, he is a professor at Keimyung University, of Korea. Unlike other famous pianists in the world, Lim started playing the piano at the age of nine. He continued his studies with Professor Lev Naumov.
Since he was young, he participated in most of the top competitions in Europe.
At that time, Lim got a message of congratulations by Kim Young-sam, the president of of Korea at that moment. The performing styles of Dong-Minister and Dong-Hyek Lim are very contrasting from each other.
While Dong-Minister Lim’s performing style is soft, light, and flexible,which gives the audience a comfort sound to hear, Dong-Hyek Lim has more characteristic sound (sound of his own), using a lot of good techniques while he is playing a piece. Www.limdongmin.com.
Lim had received plenty of awards in well-known competitions. In 1996, at age 16, he was the winner of the Chopin Competition for Young Pianists in Moscow (his brother Dong-Hyek Lim was in second place). In 1998, he was in the final round of International Tchaikovsky Competition for young adults. Also, he was placed as the third in International Vioti Competition. Moreover, in 2001, he was placed as the third in The International Piano Competition Ferruccio Busoni, Italy when there was no winner. He also took the fifth prize at the 2002 International Tchaikovsky Competition. Here, he was the third person in Korean history after Myung-whun Chung (정명훈) and Hae-Sun Beak (백혜선) to be on the top list. In 2005, Lim participated in the 15th International Frederick Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw announcing that this competition would be the last competition. At the end, he tied (having exactly the same decimal numbers) the third prize with his brother Dong-Hyek Lim (while there was no second prize) as the first Koreans in the history to be on the first five list.
