Anne liu
PIANIST
Biography
Young Steinway Artist Anne Liu has stunned audiences with her sensitive tones, virtuosity, and coloristic ranges. Liu, a student at The Juilliard School under the guidance of Dr. Yoheved Kaplinsky and Professor Hung-Kuan Chen, and an academic student at Columbia University, was named a 2019 Presidential Scholar in the Arts, and has been honored by the President of the United States of America at the White House and the Secretary of Education at the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium.
“Miss Liu is not just a pianist, she is a musician and artist,” remarked pianist John Mark Harris after hearing her performance. In recent years, Liu has won numerous prestigious competitions and awards around the world. In 2018, she was one of the two musicians in the nation to win the 2018 Davidson Fellow Scholarship along with Presidential Recognition. That same year, Liu was also named as a 2018 National YoungArts Finalist Winner and received U.S. Congressional recognition for this honor. Liu recently won the Grand Prize and Full Scholarship to the 2019 Aspen Music Festival and School at the 2018 Musical Merit Competition, featuring contestants in a variety of instruments along with vocalists, ages 16-32. She gave a successful performance at Harris Concert Hall in Aspen, which was broadcasted live on Colorado Public Radio.
In addition, Liu is a top prize winner in the Young Musicians Foundation David Weiss Memorial Scholarship, the 8th Bosendorfer and Yamaha USAsu International Piano Competition and the most outstanding performance of a composition by a Russian composer, the Los Angeles International Young Musician Competition, the Los Angeles International Liszt Competition and a special prize for overall best performance of “Opera Paraphrase or Transcription” in all categories, the H.B. Goodlin Scholarship Competitions and the Grossmont Music Competition etc.
Liu has performed extensively in the U.S., China and Italy. Liu has performed in John F. Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., Carnegie Hall in NYC, Steinway Hall NYC, Harris Concert Hall in Aspen, San Diego Symphony Copley Hall, New World Center in Miami, Auer Hall in Indiana , Katzin Concert Hall in Arizona, Ningbo Concert Hall in China.
After making her concerto debut at the age of 12 playing Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 2 with the San Diego Great Orchestra, Liu has gone on to collaborate with the South Coast Symphony, the Southern California Philharmonic, and the La Jolla Symphony multiple times. She has performed with world-class musicians, such as Tony Award Winner--Mr. Christian Hoff.
Furthermore, Liu has been inspired and worked with worldly renowned musicians such as Maestro Menahem Pressler, Maestro Arie Vardi, Maestro Dmitri Bashkirov, Maestro William Grant Naboré, Maestro Stanislav Ioudenitch and Ms. Olga Kern in masterclasses.
From San Diego, California, Liu started playing the piano at the age of four. Her previous teachers include Ethan Yi Dong and Ariel Yang at Opus119 Conservatory of Music and Mrs. Inessa Litvin.
Young Steinway Artist Anne Liu has stunned audiences with her sensitive tones, virtuosity, and coloristic ranges. Liu, a student at The Juilliard School under the guidance of Dr. Yoheved Kaplinsky and Professor Hung-Kuan Chen, and an academic student at Columbia University, was named a 2019 Presidential Scholar in the Arts, and has been honored by the President of the United States of America at the White House and the Secretary of Education at the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium.
“Miss Liu is not just a pianist, she is a musician and artist,” remarked pianist John Mark Harris after hearing her performance. In recent years, Liu has won numerous prestigious competitions and awards around the world. In 2018, she was one of the two musicians in the nation to win the 2018 Davidson Fellow Scholarship along with Presidential Recognition. That same year, Liu was also named as a 2018 National YoungArts Finalist Winner and received U.S. Congressional recognition for this honor. Liu recently won the Grand Prize and Full Scholarship to the 2019 Aspen Music Festival and School at the 2018 Musical Merit Competition, featuring contestants in a variety of instruments along with vocalists, ages 16-32. She gave a successful performance at Harris Concert Hall in Aspen, which was broadcasted live on Colorado Public Radio.
In addition, Liu is a top prize winner in the Young Musicians Foundation David Weiss Memorial Scholarship, the 8th Bosendorfer and Yamaha USAsu International Piano Competition and the most outstanding performance of a composition by a Russian composer, the Los Angeles International Young Musician Competition, the Los Angeles International Liszt Competition and a special prize for overall best performance of “Opera Paraphrase or Transcription” in all categories, the H.B. Goodlin Scholarship Competitions and the Grossmont Music Competition etc.
Liu has performed extensively in the U.S., China and Italy. Liu has performed in John F. Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., Carnegie Hall in NYC, Steinway Hall NYC, Harris Concert Hall in Aspen, San Diego Symphony Copley Hall, New World Center in Miami, Auer Hall in Indiana , Katzin Concert Hall in Arizona, Ningbo Concert Hall in China.
After making her concerto debut at the age of 12 playing Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 2 with the San Diego Great Orchestra, Liu has gone on to collaborate with the South Coast Symphony, the Southern California Philharmonic, and the La Jolla Symphony multiple times. She has performed with world-class musicians, such as Tony Award Winner--Mr. Christian Hoff.
Furthermore, Liu has been inspired and worked with worldly renowned musicians such as Maestro Menahem Pressler, Maestro Arie Vardi, Maestro Dmitri Bashkirov, Maestro William Grant Naboré, Maestro Stanislav Ioudenitch and Ms. Olga Kern in masterclasses.
From San Diego, California, Liu started playing the piano at the age of four. Her previous teachers include Ethan Yi Dong and Ariel Yang at Opus119 Conservatory of Music and Mrs. Inessa Litvin.