Kate Liu

Kate Liu (born May 23, 1994 in Singapore) is an American classical pianist. On October 20, 2015, she won the third prize and the Polish Radio Award for the best performance of mazurkas in the 17th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition.

Biography Liu began playing piano at age four. At six, she was admitted to the gifted music program of the Yamaha Music School in Singapore. When she was eight, she moved with her family to the Chicago area, United States. In Chicago, she studied piano with Alan Chow, Micah Yui and Emilio del Rosario in the Academy program for talented young pianists and string players at the Music Institute of Chicago. She graduated from New Trier High School in 2012 and received her Bachelor of Music degree from the Curtis Institute of Music. While studying at Curtis, she was named a 2018-19 Gilmore Rising Star.

Accolades

2010: New York International Piano Competition in New York City, USA – 1st prize 2010: Thomas & Evon Cooper International Competition in Oberlin, USA – 3rd prize 2011: Hilton Head International Piano Competition for Young Artists in Hilton Head, USA - 6th prize 2012: Eastman Young Artist International Piano Competition in Rochester, USA – 3rd prize 2014: Montreal International Musical Competition in Montreal, Canada - finalist 2015: The 3rd Asia-Pacific International Chopin Competition in Daegu, South Korea – 1st prize 2015: 17th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw, Poland – 3rd prize (bronze medal) and the special prize by the Polish Radio for the best performance of Mazurkas 2022: Quarterfinalist, Sixteenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition 2024: Semifinalist, Sixteenth Concours Géza Anda in Zürich, Switzerland