Bruce Liu | piano
Prodigy Bruce (Xiaoyu) Liu, winner of the International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw, pays a return visit.
Tchaikovsky The Seasons op. 37a (January to June)
Mendelssohn-Rachmaninoff Scherzo, excerpt from A Midsummer Night's Dream
Scriabine Sonata No. 4 Op. 30
Tchaikovsky The Seasons Op. 37a (July to December)
Prokofiev Sonata No. 7
He launched his career in Paris on this very stage in January 2022, shortly after winning the International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw. He returned a year later with his teacher and friend Dang Thai Son. Now Bruce Liu is back for a major concert of Russian music moving from the poetic nostalgia of Tchaikovsky’s Seasons, to the fireworks of Prokofiev’s Sonata No. 7 via Scriabin’s Sonata No. 4, which the composer described as “man’s ascent to the stars, a symbol of happiness.
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