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For Sunwoo Yekwon, Liszt was once 'just showy.' Not anymore.
May 7, 2026
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In middle school, Sunwoo Yekwon could play almost any Liszt piece thrown at him. He picked up the Hungarian Rhapsody and tossed off the impossible tempos without a slip; he learned Balakirev's Islamey in two weeks. Then, somewhere in his 20s, he stopped playing Liszt entirely. I had a great deal of ambition toward Liszt growing up, the pianist, who in 2017 became the first Korean to win gold at the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, said at a Seoul press conference Thursday for his
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