Now playing in this video: 🎵 Chopin: "Ballade No.4 in F minor Op.52"

Kim Bernard brings profound depth and narrative sweep to Chopin's "Ballade No. 4 in F minor", Op. 52, widely regarded as the composer's most complex and emotionally rich work in the form. Elegiac and intricately woven, the ballade builds from wistful lyricism to a devastating, virtuosic climax.

🌟 About the Artist

Born in 1999, Bernard Kim started studying piano at age 5 with Michèle Mary. Upon meeting Bernard d’Ascoli and Eleanor Harris he began studies at the Piano Cantabile academy in Aubagne in 2008, as well as at the Toulon Conservatory with Célimène Daudet, graduating with highest honors in 2011. The following year, he won the first prize at the Montrond-les-Bains International Competition in the under 17 category as well as first prize at the Nuits Pianistiques competition in Aix-en-Provence.