The results of the Second Round of the Chopin International Piano Competition 2015 in Warsaw have been announced. One of the 20 pianists selected for the Third Round is the Singapore-born American pianist Kate Liu.
Her bio is available here, as well as several archived performances:
http://chopincompetition2015.com/competitor/fc9cd18c-c850-4923-8409-bec0829d1e38
Having gotten over the disappointment of Singapore's Shaun Choo not making the First Round, here is someone to root for. Go for it, Kate, Go!
The full list of pianists for the Third Round, which starts tomorrow, is as follows:
Mr Luigi Carroccia (Italy)
Ms Galina Chistiakova (Russia)Mr Seong-Jin Cho (South Korea)
Mr Chi Ho Han (South Korea)
Mr Aljoša Jurinić (Croatia)
Ms Su Yeon Kim (South Korea)
Ms Dinara Klinton (Ukraine)
Ms Aimi Kobayashi (Japan)
Mr Marek Kozák (Czech Republic)
Mr Łukasz Krupiński (Poland)
Mr Krzysztof Książek (Poland)
Ms Kate Liu (United States)
Mr Eric Lu (United States)
Mr Szymon Nehring (Poland)
Mr Georgijs Osokins (Latvia)
Mr Charles Richard-Hamelin (Canada)
Mr Dmitry Shishkin (Russia)
Mr Alexei Tartakovsky (United States)
Mr Zi Xu (China)
Mr Yike (Tony) Yang (Canada)
The competition may be followed here:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSTXol20Q01Uj-U5Yp3IqFg
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Kate Liu was eventually awarded 3rd Prize in the 2015 Chopin International Piano competition, the highest placing any Singapore-born pianist has received in the history of any international piano competition.
Well done, Kate! Hope to see you perform in Singapore sometime soon!
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