Kate Liu

Kate Liu is one of those pianists who makes you stop whatever you're doing the moment she starts playing. Born in Singapore in 1994 and raised with an American musical pedigree, she burst onto the international stage at the 2015 Chopin International Piano Competition in Warsaw — one of classical music's most prestigious and brutally competitive events — and walked away with third prize plus the Polish Radio Award for best mazurka performance. That mazurka prize says a lot: it's not just technical fireworks the judges were recognizing, it's a genuine feeling for Chopin's Polish soul, which is honestly harder to fake than any amount of octave runs. She was barely 21 years old. I find her playing remarkably interior and searching, never showy for its own sake, and that quality is rare in a competition circuit that often rewards flash over depth.

Name (English)

Kate Liu

Name (Japanese)

ケイト・リウ

Reading

けいと・りう

Born

May 23, 1994 (age 32)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Gemini / Dog

Origin

Singapore, United States

Occupation

pianist

Motto

Private

• Official sitehttps://www.kateliu.com/
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B1%E3%82%A4%E3%83%88%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AA%E3%82%A6

Tags

• pianist

Last updated

2026-06-02

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