Now playing in this video: 🎵 Debussy: "L'isle Joyeuse"

Kim Bernard brings dazzling color and exuberant energy to Debussy's "L'isle joyeuse", a radiant tone-poem inspired by Watteau's painting of a voyage to the island of love. Sensuous and virtuosic, the piece builds from languid sensuality to an ecstatic, glittering close.

🌟 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.