Dr Annie Yim
Annie Yim is a Hong Kong-born Canadian concert pianist, creative collaborator and founder of MusicArt based in London. Her performance has been described by The Times as "the most beautiful sounds, radiantly coloured, thoughtfully articulated.” Known for her wide-ranging solo and chamber music repertoire that encompasses canonic works and new music, Annie has broadcast live on BBC Radio 3, Classic FM and national radios in Canada and Portugal, and she made her UK concerto debut at LSO St Luke’s, London.
Passionate about collaborations and commissioning new works across art forms, Annie founded MusicArt in 2015 in London, an initiative to create original artist-led performance projects. From London to Berlin and Salzburg, her performances with artists and art spaces were featured in New York T Magazine, Artnet and Gramophone. She is a recipient of Art Council England’s Developing Your Creative Practice award in 2021 for her current work in making connections between music and nature and Help Musicians UK’s Do It Differently award in 2022.
Annie has worked closely with contemporary artists including painter Sir Christopher Le Brun PRA, composers Cheryl Frances-Hoad and Raymond Yiu and poets Zaffar Kunial and Kayo Chingonyi, as well as with leading art galleries and national organisations including The Poetry Society (UK) and the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (US). Her most recent collaboration has brought together the piano etudes of Philip Glass and the drawings of artist Richard Serra. Her book chapter “MusicArt: Creating Dialogue Across the Arts” was published by Palgrave Macmillan in the edited volume ‘Researching and Writing on Contemporary Art and Artists’ in 2020.
Annie is founding member of the Minerva Piano Trio, who made their London debut at the Southbank Centre in 2014. She was St John’s Smith Square Young Artist in Residence in 2016/17. Her trio album ‘Dance!’ was released on the SOMM label in 2022 to critical acclaim, which includes her arrangement of a work by Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer Caroline Shaw.
Raised in Vancouver, Annie studied piano with Robert Silverman at the University of British Columbia and Joan Havill at the Guildhall School of Music. She was awarded a Doctor of Musical Arts for her performance-based research on Robert Schumann and Johannes Brahms at the Guildhall School of Music and City, University of London.
In July 2023 Annie was appointed Lecturer in Music Performance at the London College of Music, University of West London.
