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SUMMARY:Eric Lu
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 s are sold out\, please click here to fill out our waitlist request form.\
 n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA veritable poet of the keyboard. He already seems to posse
 ss the magic touch of early Leeds laureates Murray Perahia and Radu Lupu. 
 Lu surely is one of the most exciting prospects in a long time. - The Guar
 dian\n\nEric Lu won First Prize at The Leeds International Piano Competiti
 on in 2018 at the age of 20. The following year\, he signed an exclusive c
 ontract with Warner Classics and has since collaborated with some of the w
 orld's most prestigious orchestras and presented in major recital venues.\
 n\nRecent and forthcoming orchestral collaborations include the Chicago Sy
 mphony Orchestra\, London Symphony Orchestra\, Boston Symphony Orchestra\,
  Los Angeles Philharmonic\, Oslo Philharmonic\, Orchestre Philharmonique d
 u Luxembourg\, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic\, Orchestre National de Lille\
 , Finnish Radio Symphony\, Yomiuri Nippon Symphony\, Seattle Symphony\, He
 lsinki Philharmonic\, Royal Philharmonic\, Tokyo Symphony\, Shanghai Symph
 ony at the BBC Proms\, amongst others. Conductors he collaborates with inc
 lude Riccardo Muti\, Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla\, Ryan Bancroft\, Marin Alsop\
 , Duncan Ward\, Vasily Petrenko\, Edward Gardner\, Sir Mark Elder\, Thomas
  Dausgaard\, Ruth Reinhardt\, Earl Lee\, Kerem Hasan\, Nuno Coehlo\, Dinis
  Sousa\, and Martin Frӧst.\n\nActive as a recitalist\, he is presented on
  stages including the Köln Philharmonie\, Concertgebouw Amsterdam\, Queen
  Elizabeth Hall London\, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg\, Leipzig Gewandhaus\, Sa
 n Francisco Davies Hall\, BOZAR Brussels\, Fondation Louis Vuitton Paris\,
  92nd St Y\, Aspen Music Festival\, Seoul Arts Centre\, Warsaw Philharmoni
 c Hall\, and Sala São Paulo. In 2025\, he appears for the 7th consecutive
  year in a recital at Wigmore Hall London. He has also been invited for th
 e 7th time to Warsaw's 'Chopin and his Europe Festival' and will debut at 
 La Roque-d'Anthéron Festival.\n\nEric’s third album on Warner Classics 
 was released in December 2022\, featuring Schubert Sonatas D. 959 and 784.
  It was met with worldwide critical acclaim\, receiving BBC Music Magazine
 ’s Instrumental Choice\, writing\, “Lu’s place among today’s Schub
 ertians is confirmed.” His previous album of the Chopin 24 Preludes and 
 Schumann’s Geistervariationen was hailed ‘truly magical’ by Internat
 ional Piano.\n\nBorn in Massachusetts in 1997\, Eric Lu first came to inte
 rnational attention as a Laureate of the 2015 Chopin International Competi
 tion in Warsaw\, aged just 17. He was also awarded the International Germa
 n Piano Award in 2017 and the Avery Fisher Career Grant in 2021. Eric was 
 a BBC New Generation Artist from 2019-22. He is a graduate of the Curtis I
 nstitute of Music\, studying with Robert McDonald and Jonathan Biss. He wa
 s also a pupil of Dang Thai Son.\n\n\n\n\n\nProgram\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Cho
 piniana \n\nNo composer occupies the same space on the Olympus of piano mu
 sic as Chopin. The beauty\, passion\, and poetry of the Polish Icon will c
 ome alive in the hands of one of the most exciting pianists of our generat
 ion\, Eric Lu\, who is back at the Grand Piano Series by popular demand.\n
 \nChopin — Nocturne Op. 27 No. 1\nChopin — Polonaise in F-sharp Minor\
 , Op. 44\nChopin — 3 Mazurkas\, Op. 56\nChopin — Polonaise-Fantasy in 
 A-flat Major\, Op. 61\n\nIntermission\n\nChopin — Polonaise in B-flat Ma
 jor\, Op. 71\, No. 2\nChopin — Sonata No. 3 in B Minor\, Op. 58\n\n\n\n\
 n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGet Tickets\n\n\n
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