Lim Concert

The SOSU Department of Fine Arts presents a visiting faculty recital featuring violist, Joseph Lim and pianist, Rira Lim in concert Thursday, February 20 at 7:30 P.M. in the SOSU Fine Arts Recital Hall. The concert is presented without admission charge.

Rira Lim was born in Gwangju, South Korea. She started learning piano at the age of four. She received her musical training at the presitage Yonsei University, in Seoul, and the University of North Texas. Under the tutelage of Joseph Banowetz, she earned her master of music degree in piano performance and is anticipating receiving a doctor of musical arts degree in piano performance from the University of North Texas next year. Rira Lim made her public debut at age fourteen, performing Mozart’s Piano Concerto No.19 in F major, K. 459 with the Gwangju Symphony Orchestra. As a high school student, she won first place in the National Youth Music Competition under the sponsorship of the Music Association of Korea. At the age of sixteen, she performed Saint–Saens’s Piano Concerto No 2 in G minor, Op 22 at a concert celebrating the opening of the first Gwangju International Biennale. She also performed with the North Hungarian National Symphony Orchestra at age nineteen, under the sponsorship of Gwangju Broadcasting Station. At the 2004 Wiesbaden International Piano Competition, she was awarded a diploma “Lobende Anerkennung” (Eulogistic Recognition). In the following year, she was invited as a featured guest artist and performed at the Wiesbaden Musik & Kunstschule. She has also attended and performed at several international music festivals in Europe and studied with such great pianists as Paul Badura Skoda and Bruno L. Gelber. In 2005, she won first prize in the International Symphonic Workshops Competition held in Varna, Bulgaria. As part of her prize, she was invited to perform with the orchestra in 2006. Most recently, she won first prize in 2006-2007 UNT concerto competition and performed the first Rachmaninoff piano concerto with the UNT Symphony orchestra. Ms. Lim, as a natural collaborator, has also played with some leading professional instrumentalists, as well as appearing on several international concert stages. Since 2006, as an adjunct faculty member, she has been appointed collaborative pianist-in-residence and served as an instrumental and vocal coach at Southeastern Oklahoma State University.

Joseph (Yo-Sub) Lim, a highly regarded professional violist and violinist, has performed recitals throughout Europe and Asia, including recitals at Wiesbaden (Germany), Veszprem (Hungary), Nowy Sacz (Poland) and Seoul (South Korea). His four Solo Recitals in Mainz, Germany have been favorably reviewed by the Rhein–Lahn Press in Feb, 2004. He has appeared as a featured guest artist in Darmstat Contemporary Music Festival, and German Federal Govermnment (Staatskanzrlei) Concert. He also has appeared in many festivals throughout Europe, such as Bodensee International Sommerkurs, Internationalen Ochesterakademie Mannheimier schule, Dortmund Russian Musikakademie, Auer Musikakademie, and Nowy Sacz Musikakademie. Born in Gwangju, South Korea, Joseph Lim began his studies initially as a violinist, but decided to study the viola after being increasingly drawn to the deeper sonorities of the viola. He maintains a performing career on both instruments. After being graduated from Chonnam National University in South Korea, with Bachelor of Music degree in violin performance, his musical training was followed at Maastricht Konservatory (Netherlands), Germany Orchesterzentrum/ NRW, and the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz (Germany) where he received his Masters\ of Music degree in both violin and viola performance, and Konzertexamen degree in viola performance. During his studies in Germany, he appeared as soloist with the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz Orchestra (Kammerorchestra) and worked as a member of Staatsheater Mainz Philharmonischen Ochester. He has also served as principal violist for the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz Orchestra and Nowy Sacz Fesitval Orchestra (Poland). His major teachers were Karin Lorenz, Ruth Kilius (Zehetmair Quartet), Jan Kokich, and Michael Kugel. Also renowned as a chamber musician, he has been a member of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz String Quartet, Gwangju Piano Quintet, and Seoul Philharmonic String Sextet, and has performed throughout the world. Since 2005, he has been a member of the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, under the baton of maestro Myung-Hoon Jung. Also, since 2006, Joseph Lim has taught at AM Korea Winter Music Festival and served as a professor of viola at the Chonnam National University in South Korea.