03/22/2023
👏 MEET ALL THE YOUNG MUSICIANS GETTING TO ROUND 2 OF CLASSICALIA!👏
🎹 Alexander Liu is an eleven-year-old pianist from Short Hills, NJ. He began studying piano at the age of five and a half with Ms. Felicia Feng Zhang, NCTM and RCM Teacher of Distinction(2020) of Greenwich, CT and later with concert pianist Diyi Tang of Syosset, NY, Professor Miyoko Lotto of Manhattan School of Music Precollege and he is currently studying with Professor Orli Shaham at the Juilliard Pre-College. Despite his young age, Alex has already garnered numerous awards, including the 1st Prize in the XIII Chopin International Competition 2022, 1st Prize in the Anselmo Academy IV International Youth Competition and the Best Classical Award 2022, 1st Prize in the 2022 Tell School of Music Keyboard Division Piano Competition, 1st Prize in the VI Paderewski International Piano Competition in 2021, and the 1st Place in the American protégé International Music Talent Competition in 2021. He has also been awarded the Alex Assoian Scholarship award at Manhattan School of Music and the Takako Saegusa Scholarship at The Juilliard School.
Alex has performed at some of the world's most prestigious stages, including Isaac Stern Auditorium, New York Town Hall, Himalayas Art Center in Shanghai, and Carnegie Hall, where he has performed more than 10 times for winner recitals of various competitions. At age 10, he won Sound Symphony Concerto Competition and performed Mozart Concerto No.23 three movements with the orchestra in the following season. He was the youngest performer in NYSSMA (New York State School Music Association) Piano Showcase in 2021 and was featured in two seasons of a TV Show named Gifted Young Pianist in 2018 and 2020. In addition to his accomplishments in performance, Alex has also achieved First Class Honors with Distinction in RCM Music Theory Level 8 and First Class Honors with Distinction in RCM Piano Level 10. Despite his busy schedule, Alex has been actively volunteering his time as a Youth Leader in Piano Village Foundation/All Talent Academy Community Program, where he helps young children with music theory. He has also been a voluntary piano tutor in Tutoring for a Good Cause.
🖋️ His judge wrote about his Classicalia Round 1 debut ”Bravo to you and your teacher on such well prepared and polished performance! There was much to admire here- superb clarity, warm round tone, technical fluidity accompanied with singing tone, good pedaling and fine sense of musical shaping.”
✈️ Alexander feels immensely honored to have progressed to the second round of the esteemed Classicalia music competition. "For my upcoming performance, I have selected Mozart's Concerto No. 23 - a composition that Mozart himself wrote and played in Vienna more than two centuries ago. It's a surreal experience to contemplate that I'll be playing this masterpiece in the same city where it was composed. I'm deeply thrilled and eager to share my unique interpretation of this magnificent concerto with the judges and audience.”
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