Eduardus Halim, who played his New York debut concert Thursday night at Alice Tully Hall, is in the Master of Music program at the Juilliard School, where he studies with Rudolf Firkusny.  His other teachers include Stephen Sulungan and the late Sascha Gorodnitzki.  He has won several honors, most recently the Juilliard William Petschek Piano Debut Award, which made the Thursday evening concert possible.

Mr. Halim has a splendid technique and he summons a dewey, exceedingly beautiful tone from the piano.  At times, indeed, for this listener the tone seemed a bit too pretty, particularly in music such as the Clementi Sonata in F-sharp minor (Op. 25, No. 5), in which a more structural and objective approach might have been welcome.

Schumann's "Davidsbűndlertǎnze" were spirited and sharply delineated, Mr. Halim's dreamlike, pedaled sonority set off by a remarkably straightforward and unsentimental interpretation.