Kate Liu
She gained worldwide fame thanks to the 3rd prize and the special prize for the best performance of mazurkas in the 17th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw. The pianist also received the audience award granted by the listeners of Polish Radio.As a teenager, she won the highest awards in several competitions, such as the 3rd International Chopin Competition Asia-Pacific, international competitions in Montreal and New York.
She has performed, among others, in the Seoul Arts Centre, Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre, Carnegie Hall (Weill Hall), Severance Hall in Cleveland, La Maison Symphonique in Montreal, Kennedy Center in Washington, concert halls in Shanghai and Osaka, the Warsaw Philharmonic and the Polish Radio National Symphony Orchestra in Katowice (NOSPR), the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, the Daegu Symphony Orchestra, the Rochester Philharmonic.
Her debut album of Chopin's compositions was released in 2016 by the Fryderyk Chopin National Institute (recordings of the pianist's competition performances).
She was born in Singapore. She began learning to play the piano at the age of four. At the age of eight, she moved to the United States. She initially studied at the Institute of Music in Chicago with Alan Chow, Micah Yui and Emilio del Rosario. She then completed her bachelor's degree at the Curtis Institute of Music and her master's degree at the Juilliard School in the class of Robert McDonald and Yoheved Kaplinska.
