KATE LIU

The Music of Apollo and Dionysus
By Luca Cossettini

Kate Liu first gained international attention in 2015, when she won Third Prize, the Audience Prize, and the Mazurka Prize at the Chopin Competition in Warsaw. Since then, she has been invited to perform in many of the world’s leading venues—from Carnegie Hall in New York to the Warsaw Philharmonic, the Seoul Arts Centre, and the Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre—and has become something of an interpretive touchstone for many competitors in subsequent editions of the competition. She has appeared with orchestras such as the Warsaw Philharmonic, the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, the Cleveland Orchestra, and the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra. In 2025, she released her debut album on the Orchid Classics label, featuring sonatas by Beethoven and Brahms.
Born in Singapore, Kate Liu moved to the United States at the age of eight. She studied at the Music Institute of Chicago and graduated from the Curtis Institute of Music. She went on to earn her Master’s degree and Artist Diploma from the Juilliard School, where she studied with Robert McDonald and Yoheved Kaplinsky.