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Lu records for [[Warner Classics]] under an exclusive contract,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Eric Lu {{!}} Warner Classics |url=https://www.warnerclassics.com/artist/eric-lu |access-date=September 13, 2022 |website=www.warnerclassics.com |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=September 3, 2019 |title=Eric Lu signs exclusive contract with Warner Classics |url=https://www.pianistmagazine.com/news/eric-lu-signs-exclusive-contract-with-warner-classics/ |access-date=September 13, 2022 |website=Pianist}}</ref> and has released critically acclaimed recordings of [[Ludwig van Beethoven|Beethoven]], [[Johannes Brahms|Brahms]], [[Frédéric Chopin|Chopin]], [[Franz Schubert|Schubert]], and [[Robert Schumann|Schumann]] on the label.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Schubert: Piano Sonatas etc (Eric Lu) |url=https://www.classical-music.com/reviews/instrumental/schubert-piano-sonatas-etc-eric-lu/ |access-date=May 10, 2023 |website=Classical Music |date=January 24, 2023 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |title=Eric Lu’s Schubert: Piano Sonatas spacious, unhurried and often exquisite |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/music/review/2023/01/06/eric-lus-schubert-piano-sonatas-spacious-unhurried-and-often-exquisite/ |access-date=May 10, 2023 |newspaper=The Irish Times |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=CHOPIN Preludes SCHUMANN Ghost Variations (Eric Lu) |url=https://www.gramophone.co.uk/reviews/review?slug=chopin-preludes-schumann-ghost-variations-eric-lu |access-date=May 10, 2023 |website=Gramophone |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4; Chopin: Sonata No. 2; Ballade No. 4 |url=https://www.classical-music.com/reviews/instrumental/beethoven-piano-concerto-no-4-chopin-sonata-no-2-ballade-no-4/ |access-date=May 10, 2023 |website=Classical Music |date=March 2020 |language=en}}</ref> Following his win at the 19th International Chopin Piano Competition, he is set to release a live album of highlights from his winning performances by [[Deutsche Grammophon]].

Lu records for [[Warner Classics]] under an exclusive contract,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Eric Lu {{!}} Warner Classics |url=https://www.warnerclassics.com/artist/eric-lu |access-date=September 13, 2022 |website=www.warnerclassics.com |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=September 3, 2019 |title=Eric Lu signs exclusive contract with Warner Classics |url=https://www.pianistmagazine.com/news/eric-lu-signs-exclusive-contract-with-warner-classics/ |access-date=September 13, 2022 |website=Pianist}}</ref> and has released critically acclaimed recordings of [[Ludwig van Beethoven|Beethoven]], [[Johannes Brahms|Brahms]], [[Frédéric Chopin|Chopin]], [[Franz Schubert|Schubert]], and [[Robert Schumann|Schumann]] on the label.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Schubert: Piano Sonatas etc (Eric Lu) |url=https://www.classical-music.com/reviews/instrumental/schubert-piano-sonatas-etc-eric-lu/ |access-date=May 10, 2023 |website=Classical Music |date=January 24, 2023 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |title=Eric Lu’s Schubert: Piano Sonatas spacious, unhurried and often exquisite |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/music/review/2023/01/06/eric-lus-schubert-piano-sonatas-spacious-unhurried-and-often-exquisite/ |access-date=May 10, 2023 |newspaper=The Irish Times |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=CHOPIN Preludes SCHUMANN Ghost Variations (Eric Lu) |url=https://www.gramophone.co.uk/reviews/review?slug=chopin-preludes-schumann-ghost-variations-eric-lu |access-date=May 10, 2023 |website=Gramophone |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4; Chopin: Sonata No. 2; Ballade No. 4 |url=https://www.classical-music.com/reviews/instrumental/beethoven-piano-concerto-no-4-chopin-sonata-no-2-ballade-no-4/ |access-date=May 10, 2023 |website=Classical Music |date=March 2020 |language=en}}</ref> Following his win at the 19th International Chopin Piano Competition, he is set to release a live album of highlights from his winning performances by [[Deutsche Grammophon]].

==Life and career ==

== and ==

Eric Lu was born on December 15, 1997, in [[Massachusetts]] to a father from [[Kaohsiung]], Taiwan, and a mother from [[Shanghai]], China.<ref name=”LTN News”>{{cite news|url=http://news.ltn.com.tw/news/life/breakingnews/1483016|title=蕭邦國際鋼琴大賽 台裔青年陸逸軒奪第4名|newspaper=[[Liberty Times]]|date=October 21, 2015 |access-date=January 4, 2019}}</ref> He grew up in [[Bedford, Massachusetts]], and started piano studies at age six with Dorothy Shi ({{lang|zh-hans|杨镜钏}}) in the Boston area.<ref name=”LTN News” /> Later, he enrolled at the [[New England Conservatory of Music|New England Conservatory Preparatory School]], where he studied with [[Alexander Korsantia]] and [[A. Ramon Rivera]]. In 2013, he was admitted into the [[Curtis Institute of Music]], where he studied with [[Jonathan Biss]] and [[Robert McDonald (musician)|Robert McDonald]]. He is also a pupil of [[Đặng Thái Sơn|Đặng Thái Sơn]].

Eric Lu was born on December 15, 1997, in [[Massachusetts]] to a father from [[Kaohsiung]], Taiwan, and a mother from [[Shanghai]], China.<ref name=”LTN News”>{{cite news|url=http://news.ltn.com.tw/news/life/breakingnews/1483016|title=蕭邦國際鋼琴大賽 台裔青年陸逸軒奪第4名|newspaper=[[Liberty Times]]|date=October 21, 2015 |access-date=January 4, 2019}}</ref> He grew up in [[Bedford, Massachusetts]], and started piano studies at age six with Dorothy Shi ({{lang|zh-hans|杨镜钏}}) in the Boston area.<ref name=”LTN News” /> Later, he enrolled at the [[New England Conservatory of Music|New England Conservatory Preparatory School]], where he studied with [[Alexander Korsantia]] and [[A. Ramon Rivera]]. In 2013, he was admitted into the [[Curtis Institute of Music]], where he studied with [[Jonathan Biss]] and [[Robert McDonald (musician)|Robert McDonald]]. He is also a pupil of [[Đặng Thái Sơn|Đặng Thái Sơn]].

Revision as of 06:21, 23 October 2025

American pianist (born 1997)

Eric Lu (born December 15, 1997) is an American classical pianist. The winner of the 2025 XIX International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw and the 2018 Leeds International Piano Competition, he has performed with many of the world’s major orchestras, including the London Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Oslo Philharmonic, and on tour with the Orchestre national de Lille.[2][3]

Lu records for Warner Classics under an exclusive contract,[4][5] and has released critically acclaimed recordings of Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin, Schubert, and Schumann on the label.[6][7][8][9] Following his win at the 19th International Chopin Piano Competition, he is set to release a live album of highlights from his winning performances by Deutsche Grammophon.

Early life and education

Eric Lu was born on December 15, 1997, in Massachusetts to a father from Kaohsiung, Taiwan, and a mother from Shanghai, China.[10] He grew up in Bedford, Massachusetts, and started piano studies at age six with Dorothy Shi (杨镜钏) in the Boston area.[10] Later, he enrolled at the New England Conservatory Preparatory School, where he studied with Alexander Korsantia and A. Ramon Rivera. In 2013, he was admitted into the Curtis Institute of Music, where he studied with Jonathan Biss and Robert McDonald. He is also a pupil of Đặng Thái Sơn.

Career

Lu performing live at the Rady Shell at Jacobs Park, San Diego, 2023

In 2015, at age 17, Lu won 4th prize at the XVII International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw,[11][12][13] becoming one of the youngest laureates in the competition’s history. There, he befriended Charles Richard-Hamelin, who was also a candidate at the time.[14] Shortly afterward, he performed his debut at the 70th International Chopin Festival in Duszniki, Poland.[15] He toured Japan and Korea with the Warsaw Philharmonic along with the competition’s other prizewinners in January 2016.

In 2017, Lu won the International German Piano Award in Frankfurt. He also won the audience prize.[16]

In 2018, at age 20, Lu won First Prize and the gold medal at the Leeds International Piano Competition.[17] He was the first American pianist to win since Murray Perahia. He played Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 in the finals with the Hallé Orchestra conducted by Edward Gardner. After winning, he was immediately signed by Askonas Holt and Warner Classics. His first concert was his debut with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and Vasily Petrenko. He subsequently played recitals at Wigmore Hall, Amsterdam Concertgebouw,[18] Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris,[19] Saint Petersburg Philharmonia, and Shanghai Grand Theatre. His recital in Bristol was praised by The Guardian: “Lu seems already to possess something of the magic touch of early Leeds laureates Murray Perahia and Radu Lupu“.[20]

In June 2019, Lu replaced Martha Argerich in a concert with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra. Lu made his debut at the 2019 BBC Proms at London’s Royal Albert Hall with the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra and Yu Long.[21]

In 2022, he stepped in on short notice to perform with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Riccardo Muti, replacing Maurizio Pollini; the Chicago Tribune noted Lu’s “perfectly idiomatic” interpretation of Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 27 and his “pliant, gossamer touch”.[22]

In 2025, Lu placed first at the XIX International Chopin Piano Competition.[23] He is the second American winner of the competition, after Garrick Ohlsson in 1970, and the second winner to play Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 2 after Dang Thai Son in 1980. He is also the only person to have taken part twice and won a prize both times. Following his victory, a live album of performance highlights from the competition will be released by Deutsche Grammophon.[citation needed]

Discography

Lu records for Warner Classics under an exclusive contract. His first major release was in 2020, of an album of Chopin’s 24 Preludes, Op. 28; Schumann’s Geistervariationen; and Brahms’s Intermezzo, Op. 117 No. 1.[24][25] Lu followed this with an all-Schubert disc, released in 2022.[26][27]

Awards

References

  1. ^ Yu, Ding-hsuan (October 21, 2025). “Taiwanese-American Li Yixuan wins first prize in the National Chopin Competition” (in Chinese (Taiwan)). TVBS. Retrieved October 21, 2025.
  2. ^ “Eric Lu”. BSO. Retrieved September 13, 2022.
  3. ^ “Review: Muti conducts ‘Pictures from an Exhibition’ at the CSO — with all the bittersweet reminders of time’s forward march”. Chicago Tribune. October 7, 2022. Retrieved October 23, 2022.
  4. ^ “Eric Lu | Warner Classics”. www.warnerclassics.com. Retrieved September 13, 2022.
  5. ^ “Eric Lu signs exclusive contract with Warner Classics”. Pianist. September 3, 2019. Retrieved September 13, 2022.
  6. ^ “Schubert: Piano Sonatas etc (Eric Lu)”. Classical Music. January 24, 2023. Retrieved May 10, 2023.
  7. ^ “Eric Lu’s Schubert: Piano Sonatas spacious, unhurried and often exquisite”. The Irish Times. Retrieved May 10, 2023.
  8. ^ “CHOPIN Preludes SCHUMANN Ghost Variations (Eric Lu)”. Gramophone. Retrieved May 10, 2023.
  9. ^ “Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4; Chopin: Sonata No. 2; Ballade No. 4”. Classical Music. March 2020. Retrieved May 10, 2023.
  10. ^ a b “蕭邦國際鋼琴大賽 台裔青年陸逸軒奪第4名”. Liberty Times. October 21, 2015. Retrieved January 4, 2019.
  11. ^ “Chopin Competition 2015 – 17th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition”. Chopin Competition 2015 – 17th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition. Archived from the original on May 20, 2016. Retrieved May 26, 2016.
  12. ^ “17-year-old-wins-chopin-competition”. South Florida Classical Review.
  13. ^ “Prep Alumnus wins Fourth Prize at Chopin Competition”. necmusic.edu. October 21, 2015.
  14. ^ Huss, Christophe (October 21, 2025). “Eric Lu nouveau Prix Chopin, le Canadien Kevin Chen second”. Le Devoir (in French). Retrieved October 21, 2025.
  15. ^ “Review of Eric Lu recital”. Chopin society. August 11, 2015. Retrieved May 26, 2016.
  16. ^ “Eric Lu”. Retrieved September 13, 2022.
  17. ^ Tilden, Imogen (September 16, 2018). “US pianist Eric Lu wins top prize at Leeds competition”. The Guardian. Retrieved September 16, 2018.
  18. ^ “Eric Lu Concertgebouw”. concertgebouw.nl. December 29, 2019. Retrieved January 2, 2020.
  19. ^ “Eric Lu Fondation Louis Vuitton”. fondationlouisvuitton.fr. March 8, 2018. Retrieved January 2, 2020.
  20. ^ Evans, Rian (November 7, 2018). “Eric Lu review – Leeds winner has grace, wisdom and poetry”. The Guardian. Retrieved January 16, 2019.
  21. ^ “2019 BBC Proms”. BBC.co.uk. September 1, 2019. Retrieved July 22, 2019.
  22. ^ “Review: Muti conducts ‘Pictures from an Exhibition’ at the CSO — with all the bittersweet reminders of time’s forward march”. Chicago Tribune. October 7, 2022. Retrieved May 11, 2023.
  23. ^ “American Eric Lu crowned winner of Chopin Piano Competition”. Reuters. October 21, 2025. Retrieved October 21, 2025.
  24. ^ “CHOPIN Preludes SCHUMANN Ghost Variations (Eric Lu)”. Gramophone. Retrieved May 11, 2023.
  25. ^ Lu, Eric; Chopin, Frédéric; Brahms, Johannes; Schumann, Robert (2020), Eric Lu (in no linguistic content), Warner Classics, OCLC 1155921627
  26. ^ “Schubert: Piano Sonatas etc (Eric Lu)”. Classical Music. January 24, 2023. Retrieved May 11, 2023.
  27. ^ Schubert, Franz; Lu, Eric (2022), Piano sonatas D. 784 & 959 ; Allegretto D. 915 (in no linguistic content), [New York]: Warner Classics, OCLC 1373839700
  28. ^ a b Kubica, Boguslaw Gus (November 19, 2021). “Eric Lu Biography”. Chopin Society of Atlanta. Retrieved October 21, 2025.
  29. ^ “Eric Lu”. BSO. July 2, 2024. Retrieved October 21, 2025.
  30. ^ Balbin, Rafael Marco (October 21, 2025). “Eric Lu Named Winner of 2025 International Chopin Competition”. Veniccio. Retrieved October 21, 2025.
  31. ^ “Awardees”. International Piano Forum Frankfurt. October 7, 2025. Retrieved October 21, 2025.
  32. ^ “Deutscher Pianistenpreis 2017 für Pianist Eric Lu”. magazin.klassik.com. Retrieved October 21, 2025.
  33. ^ “Eric Lu”. The Leeds International Piano Competition. September 19, 2023. Retrieved October 21, 2025.
  34. ^ “American Eric Lu wins International Chopin Piano Competition in Poland”. Notes From Poland. October 21, 2025. Retrieved October 21, 2025.

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