Sun 4/30 @ 2:30PM
Just 25 years old, Chinese-Canadian pianist Bruce Liu is already on his way to stardom in classical music. He studied at the Montreal Conservatoire and won the grand prize at the Orchestre symphonique de Montreal competition when he was 15 and won the International Chopin Piano Competition in 2021, held in Warsaw, Poland every five years and devoted solely to the work of Frederic Chopin. And the field was especially strong because the competition was delayed a year due to the pandemic.
If you want to hear why he won, his world-class interpretations of Chopin will form the core of his program when he performs at Oberlin’s Finney Chapel this weekend. Among the pieces he’ll play are Rondo à la mazur in F Major; Ballade No. 2 in F Major; Variations on “Là ci darem la mano” from Mozart’s Don Giovanni; Piano Sonata No. 2 in B-flat Minor; and Trois nouvelles etudes, Op. Posth. To mix things up a little and show he’s not a one-trick pony, he’ll also play Franz Liszt’s Réminiscences de Don Juan.
For more information and tickets, go here.