South Korean pianist Lee Hun, who lost the use of his right side after a severe stroke in 2012, is set to perform with an orchestra for the first time on 2 May at the Icheon Young-Artist International Music Festival in South Korea. The 54-year-old will play Ravel's Piano Concerto for the Left Hand — a piece famously commissioned by Austrian one-handed pioneer Paul Wittgenstein — having rebuilt his career from scratch after the stroke destroyed roughly 60 per cent of his brain's left hemisphere and left him temporarily unable to walk or speak. Lee, now recognised as South Korea's only known professional left-hand-only pianist, said he is so nervous he "could die," but described performing the concerto as a lifelong dream.