For Sunwoo Yekwon, Liszt was once 'just showy.' Not anymore.

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

By The Korea Herald