Eric Lu

Eric Lu
Native name 陸逸軒[1]
Born December 15, 1997 (1997-12-15) (age 20)
Massachusetts, United States
Genres Classical
Occupation(s) Pianist
Instruments Piano

Eric Lu (born December 15, 1997) is a Chinese-American classical pianist. At 20 years old, he won the First Prize and Gold Medal at the Leeds International Piano Competition in 2018. Lu also won the 4th prize at the 17th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw, Poland in 2015. [2][3][4]

Biography

Eric Lu was born in Massachusetts to immigrant parents from Kaohsiung and Shanghai.[1] He started piano studies at the age of six with Dorothy Shi (杨镜钏), near Boston, Massachusetts. Later on, he enrolled at the New England Conservatory Preparatory School, where he studied piano with Alexander Korsantia and A. Ramon Rivera. In 2013, he was admitted into the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, where he currently studies with Jonathan Biss and Robert McDonald. He is also a pupil of the pianist Dang Thai Son.

In 2018, at age 20, Lu won the First Prize and Gold Medal at the Leeds International Piano Competition.[5] He played Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 4 in the finals with the Hallé Orchestra conducted by Edward Gardner. After winning, he was immediately signed by Askonas Holt and Warner Classics. In October 2015, he had a distinguished participation at the XVII International Chopin Piano Competition, winning the 4th prize at the age of 17, becoming one of the youngest laureates in the history of the competition. He joins the likes of pianists such as Krystian Zimerman, Daniil Trifonov, and Yundi Li, who also won prizes in this competition while still in their teens. He was one of the few pianists to put forth the 24 Preludes, Op. 28 in the 3rd stage. Earlier in 2014, he won the Moscow International Fryderyk Chopin Competition for Young Pianists,[6] and the US National Chopin Competition in Miami (2015).[7] Shortly afterwards, he performed a recital at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall in New York,[8] as well as the 70th International Chopin Festival in Duszniki, Poland.[9] He went on a tour of Japan and Korea with the Warsaw Philharmonic along with the other prizewinners of the Chopin Competition in January 2016. In 2017, he won the International German Piano Award in Frankfurt.

Awards

  • 2010 - XII Ettlingen International Competition for Young Pianists(Germany) - 1st Prize
  • 2013 - III Minnesota International e-Piano Junior Competition - 1st Prize, and Schubert Prize
  • 2014 - IX Moscow International Fryderyk Chopin Competition for Young Pianists - 1st Prize
  • 2015 - IX US National Chopin Competition - 1st Prize, and prize for best performance of a Concerto
  • 2015 - XVII International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw, Poland - 4th Prize
  • 2017 - International German Piano Award, Frankfurt - 1st Prize, Audience Award
  • 2018 - Leeds International Piano Competition - 1st Prize, Terence Judd–Hallé Orchestra Prize

References

  1. 1 2 http://news.ltn.com.tw/news/life/breakingnews/1483016
  2. ↑ "Chopin Competition 2015 – 17th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition". Chopin Competition 2015 – 17th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition. Archived from the original on May 20, 2016. Retrieved May 26, 2016.
  3. ↑ "17-year-old-wins-chopin-competition". South Florida Classical Review.
  4. ↑ "Prep Alumnus wins Fourth Prize at Chopin Competition". necmusic.edu.
  5. ↑ Tilden, Imogen (2018-09-16). "US pianist Eric Lu wins top prize at Leeds competition". the Guardian. Retrieved 2018-09-16.
  6. ↑ "History". Международный конкурс имени Фридерика Шопена для юных пианистов - 7-15 августа 2014 года. Retrieved May 26, 2016.
  7. ↑ "Miami zachwyciło się muzyką Chopina". Nowy Dziennik - Polish Daily News (in Polish). Retrieved May 26, 2016.
  8. ↑ "Eric Lu, Piano". Carnegie Hall. June 24, 2015. Retrieved May 26, 2016.
  9. ↑ "Review of Eric Lu recital". Chopin society. August 11, 2015. Retrieved May 26, 2016.



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