Eric Lu 陸逸軒,
pianist
www.ericlupianist.com
19-year
old pianist Eric Lu is rapidly building an international reputation as a
young pianist with enormous promise, and a distinctive musical voice.
A native of the Boston, Massachusetts area, Eric Lu won the 1st prize at
the 2015 US National Chopin Competition in Miami, and recently, won the
1st prize and audience award at the 2017 International German Piano
Award in Frankfurt. In October 2015, at 17 years old, Eric won the 4th
prize at the 17th International Fryderyk Chopin Competition in Warsaw,
becoming one of the youngest laureates in the history of the prestigious
competition. Following these recent successes, Eric received invitations
to perform in many important venues around the world in just the past
two years, including Carnegie Hall in New York, Auditorio Nacional in
Madrid, Alte Oper Hall in Frankfurt, Chopin and his Europe Festival in
Warsaw, Jordan Hall in Boston, Taipei National Concert Hall, Beijing
Concert Hall, Strathmore Music Center, the International Chopin Festival
in Duszniki, Poland, NOSPR Concert Hall in Katowice, Krakow Philharmonic
Concert Hall, Nohant Chopin Festival, and a tour of Japan and Korea
following the Chopin Competition, performing in halls such as Seoul Arts
Center, Tokyo Metropolitan Hall, Osaka Symphony Hall, Sapporo Arts
Center, among others. Described by the New York Classical Review as a
musician of “exceptional musical sensitivity”, as well as by Michael
Moran from the Duszniki Festival proclaiming, “The tone he produced was
luminous, the articulation spellbinding and exciting, the legato and bel
canto desperately moving.” Following his performance of Rachmaninoff
Piano Concerto No. 3 during the final of the International Piano Award,
the Darmstadter Echo wrote, “Lu received thundering applause after a
sheer unbelievable performance of the work. Oscillating between
melancholy and turmoil, he follows the expressive themes of the work
with sensitivity, peeling out melodies with fascinating clarity from the
virtuosic, densely-written piano part.”
Paving the way included earlier achievements of 1st prizes at the Moscow
International Chopin Competition for Young Pianists(2014), the Minnesota
International e-Piano Junior Competition(2013), and the XII Ettlingen
International Competition in Germany(2010). Eric has collaborated with
orchestras such as the Warsaw Philharmonic, Minnesota Orchestra,
Staatskapelle Halle, National Philharmonic, Arthur Rubinstein
Philharmonic, Orchestra of the 18th century, Orquestra Clasica Santa
Cecilia, New Jersey Symphony, Sinfonietta Cracovia, Rzeszow and Kielce
Philharmonics, Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra, etc.
Eric Lu started piano studies at the age of 6 with Mrs. Dorothy Shi.
While at the New England Conservatory Preparatory School, he studied
with Alexander Korsantia, and Mr. A. Ramon Rivera. In 2013, Eric entered
the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, where he currently
studies with Profs. Robert McDonald and Jonathan Biss. He is also a
pupil of pianist Dang Thai Son. His debut CD was released under the
Chopin Institute in Warsaw, recorded from the Chopin Competition 2015.
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Foundation for Chinese Performing Arts
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