Annie Yim

Pianist

Participated projects:

Nature Echo

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”. She is a recipient of Art Council England’s Developing Your Creative Practice award in 2021 and Help Musicians UK’s Do It Differently award in 2022. 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. Annie has worked closely with contemporary artists including Sir Christopher Le Brun PRA, composers Cheryl Frances-Hoad and Raymond Yiu, and poets Zaffar Kunial and Kayo Chingonyi; and with leading art galleries in Europe.

Annie is founding member of the Minerva Piano Trio. Her trio album ‘Dance!’ was released on the SOMM label in 2022 to critical acclaim. Since 2021 she has collaborated regularly with contemporary collective Tangram, Associate Artists at LSO St Luke’s. Raised in Vancouver, Annie received her Doctor of Musical Arts at the Guildhall School of Music and City, University of London. In 2023 Annie was appointed Course Leader and Lecturer in Music Performance at the London College of Music, University of West London.