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Alim Beisembayev rose to international prominence winning First Prize at the Leeds International Piano Competition in 2021, performing Rachmaninov's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and Andrew Manze. He also received the medici.tv Audience Prize and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Society Prize for Contemporary Performance.
In 2023, he became a BBC Proms sensation when, with just two days' notice, he stepped in to perform Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto with Sinfonia of London and John Wilson — hailed as "the kind I thought we could hear only in our dreams" by iNews. He subsequently received the Critics' Circle Young Artist Award 2024.
Recent highlights include the world premiere of Eleanor Alberga's Piano Concerto with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, prompting The Telegraph to write that he is the pianist under 30 they would most want to hear. As a recitalist, he has appeared at Carnegie Hall, Wigmore Hall, the Concertgebouw, and the BBC Proms, among many others.
His debut recording of Liszt's 12 Transcendental Études was released on Warner Classics in 2022 to critical acclaim. Born in Kazakhstan in 1998, Alim studied at the Royal Academy of Music and completed postgraduate studies at the Royal College of Music under Vanessa Latarche.
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