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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

After being awarded First Prize at the 18th International Chopin Piano Competition in 2021, Bruce Liu has found a distinctive voice that unites elegance, spontaneity, and technical mastery. The 2026 Pianist Magazine named Liu one of the ‘10 legendary pianists with the most beautiful cantabile tone’.

In demand across the globe, Liu performs with the world’s finest ensembles and conductors, including the London, Boston, and Chicago Symphony Orchestras, New York Philharmonic, Staatskapelle Dresden, Wiener Symphoniker, Orchestre National de France, and Daniele Gatti, Manfred Honeck, Paavo Järvi, Petr Popelka, Santtu-Matias Rouvali, Lahav Shani, and Dalia Stasevska.

The 2026/27 season sees Liu undertake several major international tours, including appearances with the London Symphony Orchestra and Sir Antonio Pappano in China, the Budapest Festival Orchestra and Ivan Fischer in Japan, the Montreal Symphony Orchestra with Rafael Payare in Hong Kong and Korea, and the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra with Ryan Bancroft in Europe. He also makes his debuts with the Netherlands Philharmonic, Spanish National Orchestra and the Danish National Symphony Orchestra, and returns to the New York Philharmonic and the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra. Further highlights of the season include New Year’s concerts at the Konzerthaus Berlin and the Chopin Competition’s 100th Anniversary Concert in Warsaw.

A sought-after recitalist, Liu performs at major venues such as the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Carnegie Hall, and the Berliner Philharmonie. In the 2026/27 season, he performs at the Boston Celebrity Series, Houston, Seattle, Chicago Symphony Center, Philharmonie de Paris, BOZAR Bruxelles, Muziekgebouw Amsterdam, Wigmore Hall and major venues in Spain and Portugal. He is a regular guest at various international festivals, including Edinburgh, Klavier-Festival Ruhr, Verbier, La Roque-d’Anthéron, Rheingau, Aspen and Tanglewood.

An exclusive recording artist with Deutsche Grammophon, Bruce Liu releases his latest solo album ‘Lunaris’ in summer 2026. In 2024 he was awarded Opus Klassik’s ‘Young Talent of the Year’ prize for his debut studio album ‘Waves’, and his second studio album, featuring Tchaikovsky’s Seasons, received rave reviews remarking his playing is “superbly polished, but wonderfully free of mannerisms, giving these charming salon pieces the respect and sincerity they deserve” (The Guardian).

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.

2026-2027