Alim was already impressing the musical world when he won First Prize at both the Junior Cliburn International Competition (2015) and The Leeds International Piano Competition (2021), but it was in the summer of 2023 when Alim made his unplanned Royal Albert Hall BBC Proms debut performing Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No. 2 with the Sinfonia of London that he really hit the headlines. Alim stepped in, with only 2 days notice, for Benjamin Grosvenor who had been taken ill and was no longer able to perform to a sold-out Royal Albert Hall.

Born in Kazakhstan in 1998, Alim’s early studies were at the Purcell School where he won several awards. He also took home the medici.tv Audience Prize and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Society Prize for contemporary performance with The Guardian praising him as a “worthy winner” with a “real musical personality”.
He was announced as a BBC New Generation Artist between 2023-25.

Programme

• Haydn · Variations in F minor Hob XVII/6
• Beethoven · Sonata in D major, Op. 10 No 3
• Interval
• Haydn · Sonata in E flat major XVI 52
• Schumann · Kinderszenen Op 15
• Brahms · Variations on a theme of Paganini book 1