Pro Musica presents, as part of the Mélodînes concert series,

Sophia Shuya Liu

Born in 2008, she began studying the piano at 4. She has participated in various competitions and won numerous awards, including the First Prize at the Kobe Piano Competition in Japan, the First Prize at the International Chinese Piano Composition Competition in Hangzhou, the Second Prize at the Canadian Music Competition, the First Prize at the McGill University Concerto Competition, the First Prize at the Chopin International Competition in Hartford, United States, and the Philadelphia International Piano Competition. In 2020, she was the youngest participant to be admitted to the Gina Bachauer Junior International Piano Competition. More recently, in 2022, Sophia Shuya Liu was awarded the First Prize in Category A at the 18th Ettlingen International Piano Competition in Germany, and in 2023, she won the First Prize at the Thomas & Evon Cooper International Competition in United States.

Highlights of the 2024/2025 season will include her debut at the Chopin Festivals in Warsaw and Duszniki, the Boston Summer Piano Festival, the Festival de la Roque d’Anthéron International Festival – both solo and with orchestra as part of an evening of Mozart, alongside her teacher Dang Thai Son. She will also make her Paris debut at the Fondation Louis Vuitton, as well as La Folle Journée de Nantes, in Geneva, the Piano à Saint-Ursanne Festival, and will perform on tour in Asia.

Piotr Ilitch TCHAÏKOVSKI/Mikhail PLETNEV, Suite from the ballet The Nutcracker, op.71a
I. Walk
II. Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy
III. Tarantella
IV. A fir forest in winter
V. Trepak (Russian dance)
VI. Tea (Chinese dance)
VII. Pas de deux, Dance of the Prince and Sugar Plum Fairy
Franz LISZT, Sonetto 123 del Petrarca, S. 161, no. 6
Franz LISZT, Réminiscences de Norma, S. 394
Frédéric CHOPIN, Fantasy in F minor, Op. 49
Frédéric CHOPIN, Rondo a la mazur in F major,op. 5
Frédéric CHOPIN, Variations on “Là ci darem la mano” from “Don Giovanni” by Mozart, op. 2

Salle Claude-Léveillée
Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 12:10pm

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