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Chopin Competition Final Round Warsaw Philharmonic
Chopin Competition Variations in B flat Major Op 2
Chopin Andante spianato et Grande polonaise brillante

A pianist “evoking Shura Cherkassky and Georges Cziffra in a single breath.”

Gramophone

“He played with feline agility and lightness of touch. But, as a cat can be lethally powerful when necessary, he can also take on a muscularity that turns sensitive phrasing into tintinnabular resonance.”

The New York Times

“Spontaneity is a feature that makes his performances feel constantly alive … Thanks to live recordings we can listen back over the history of past winners in their competition performances. Liu has little to fear from the comparisons. This is a pianist with a captivating musical personality.”

The Financial Times

“Forget the Chopin Competition element of this release and listen to it simply as one of the most distinguished Chopin recitals of recent years, full of maturity, character and purpose”

Gramophone Magazine

“On first encounter, there seems something attractively straightforward about his approach; an elegance and lightness of touch…”

The Guardian

“Liu can do the impeccable glitter, but his playing is more than pyrotechnics. It is powerful, polished, and emanates from a disciplined mind.”

The Telegram

“The opening chords growled portentously, scales lit up the room, left-hand octaves thundered like cannon. Liu was not only playing well, he was playing for us.”

LudwigVanToronto

“You don’t always know where Bruce Liu is taking you, but you feel compelled to follow him“

ResMusica

“It was a beautiful concert. Bruce Liu is a tremendous, certainly virtuosic, captivating, wrought, pianist of the modern age.”

The Stanford Daily

First Prize winner of the 18th International Chopin Piano Competition 2021 in Warsaw, Bruce Liu has emerged as one of the most compelling pianists of his generation — a musician praised not only for his dazzling technique, but for his curiosity and artistry that combines “nimble versatility” (New York Times) and “playing of breathtaking beauty” (BBC Music Magazine).

In high demand as a soloist, he has recently performed with many of the world’s finest ensembles including the Boston Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony, Bavarian Radio Symphony, and Wiener Symphoniker, and with conductors including Manfred Honeck, Paavo Järvi, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Sir Antonio Pappano, Lahav Shani, and Dalia Stasevska.

In summer 2025, Liu made his anticipated BBC Proms debut with the Philharmonia Orchestra and Santtu-Matias Rouvali, Chicago Symphony Orchestra with Marin Alsop at Ravinia, and went on European tours with the NCPA Orchestra and Myung-Whun Chung, and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra with Vasily Petrenko.

Highlights of Liu’s 2025/2026 season include several major international tours including Japan with Bavarian State Opera Orchestra and Vladimir Jurowski, China with the Staatskapelle Dresden and Daniele Gatti, and Germany, Austria, Belgium and Paris with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Kazuki Yamada. As a spotlight artist with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Liu appears multiple times in the season to collaborate with Franz-Welser-Möst and Gustavo Gimeno.

A distinguished recitalist, Liu has performed at major concert halls such as the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Carnegie Hall, and Philharmonie de Paris. In 2025/26, he gives recital debuts at the Berliner Philharmonie and Lyon Opera House, and returns to Carnegie Hall, Wiener Musikverein and major venues in Italy and Japan. He appears at various international festivals, including Edinburgh, Klavier-Festival Ruhr, Verbier, La Roque-d’Anthéron, Rheingau, Aspen and Tanglewood Music Festivals.

An exclusive recording artist with Deutsche Grammophon, Liu was awarded Opus Klassik’s ‘Young Talent of the Year’ prize 2024 for his debut studio album ‘Waves’. His second studio album, featuring Tchaikovsky’s Seasons, was released in November 2024 receiving rave reviews and praised for its “fresh music-making unadorned by superficial virtuosity.” (Gramophone).

Born in Paris and raised in Montréal, Bruce Liu’s artistry reflects his multicultural heritage -blending European refinement, North American dynamism, and the long tradition of Chinese culture. He studied with Richard Raymond and Dang Thai Son.

SEPTEMBER 2025