“Her performance was incredibly expressive… effortlessly moving from delicate flourishes to pounding intensity…” (Toronto Star).

Pianist Yang Liu attracts worldwide audiences with her profound musicianship and extraordinary virtuosity. Since her concerto debut at the age of fourteen with the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, she has performed extensively throughout North America, Europe, and Asia, in prominent venues including the Lincoln Center in New York City, the Koerner Hall in Toronto, the Beijing Concert Hall, the Hong Kong City Hall, the Château de Fontainebleau in France, and many others.

Ms. Liu has won many prestigious competitions, including the First Prize of the Toronto International Piano Competition, First Prize of the professional category of the Chopin International Piano Competition in Hartford, Second Prize of the Serge & Olga Koussevitzky Young Artist Awards, Fourth Prize of the International Chopin Competition for Young Pianist, among others. Ms. Liu has also participated in many international music festivals, including the Aspen Music Festival, PianoTexas, the Fontainebleau School of Music, International Musical Artistry Goslar, Imola Summer Music Academy and Festival, and others. In 2014, she became a member of the Musicians Club of New York.

Ms. Liu also performs on various keyboard instruments of different periods. In 2022, Naxos Records released her album “Schubert: German Dances, Ländlers, and Écossaises”, presenting Schubert’s dances on both a modern piano and a fortepiano. The album includes world premiere recordings and a Ländler completed by Ms. Liu based on Schubert’s fragment.

Hailing from Fuzhou, China, Ms. Liu auditioned for the Primary School Affiliated with the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing at the age of ten. In 2007, Ms. Liu was admitted to the Pre-college Division of The Juilliard School and studied with Victoria Mushkatkol. She received both her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from The Juilliard School under the tutelage of Dr. Yoheved Kaplinsky, in addition to a Master of Musical Arts degree from Yale School of Music with Dr. Melvin Chen. She is finishing her Doctoral of Musical Arts at Peabody Institute – Johns Hopkins University with Prof. Yong Hi Moon. Meanwhile, she has been studying at The Imola International Academy Foundation “Incontri con il Maestro” in Italy with Prof. Vovka Ashkenazy.

As a devoted teacher, Ms. Liu has served as the assistant of keyboard studies at the Peabody Institute and is on the piano faculty at the Smith College while teaching actively in the New York region. Some of her students have been accepted into prominent music schools including Manhattan School of Music, Mannes School of Music, Peabody Institute, and Eastman School of Music.