PIANO RECITAL
JI LIU
"Here is a young pianist with a rare sense of inborn musicality...Ji Liu has a technique to match any virtuoso, however, it is his sensitive and unpretentious musicality that shines forth in this well-recorded debut album….yes, there are too many pianists around these days, but way too few of them are anything like Ji Liu."
PIANIST MAGAZINE EDITOR’S CHOICE ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Classic FM Debut May 2014
"This was a fine performance of a masterpiece and established Ji Liu as one to watch"
QUEEN ELIZABETH HALL / Liszt’s Totentanz/ January 2014….
Born in Shanghai in 1990, Ji Liu started playing the piano at the age of 3 years and made his Carnegie Hall recital debut when he was 13. Since then he has given recitals at some of the most prestigious venues across 5 continents. In the UK he has performed at the Wigmore Hall, the Royal Festival Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Purcell Room, Barbican Centre and the Royal Albert Hall. His debut CD Piano Reflections was released by Classic FM and immediately went on to become No. 1 in the classical charts.
Ji won a Scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music and moved to London, which he now considers home. He initially studied piano and conducting at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, after which he studied under Dmitri Bashkirov in Madrid. He is now completing a Master of Music degree at the Royal Academy of Music focusing on Piano Performance with Christopher Elton and Composition with Ruth Byrchmore.
Ji is the latest piano sensation and tonight we welcome him to Helmsley to play this phenomenal programme:
BUSONI: Sonata No.6 Carman Fantasy
SCHUBERT: Fantasia in C, Op.15 Wanderer Fantasy
BEETHOVEN: Sonata in C minor, Op13 Pathetique
GERSHWIN/EARL WILD: 3 Virtuoso Etudes: Man I Love, Embraceable You and I Got Rhythm
LISZT/GOUNOD: Faust Waltz