Bruce Liu in New York

Bruce Liu is a Canadian classical pianist, born in Paris in 1997 and raised in Montreal. He won the International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw in 2021. His recordings for Deutsche Grammophon include a live Chopin album drawn from the competition and Waves, a programme of music by Rameau, Ravel and Alkan. After his 2021 victory, he made his recital debut at Carnegie Hall. Later engagements paired solo recitals with concerto appearances, including performances with the Philharmonia Orchestra and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. His recital schedule has also taken him to the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam.

The New York Philharmonic is an American symphony orchestra founded in New York City in 1842. Its history includes music-director tenures by Gustav Mahler and Leonard Bernstein, and it gave the world premiere of Antonín Dvořák’s Symphony No. 9, “From the New World,” in 1893. The orchestra’s first concert took place at the Apollo Rooms in 1842 and included Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony. It made Carnegie Hall its principal home in 1891, then moved to Philharmonic Hall at Lincoln Center in 1962. That auditorium was later named Avery Fisher Hall and then David Geffen Hall. Leonard Bernstein led the orchestra on a 1959 tour of the Soviet Union. Decades later, Lorin Maazel conducted its 2008 concert in Pyongyang, the first visit to North Korea by an American orchestra.