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Solungga刘 has been acclaimed as a pianist of great breadth. In addition to her comm和ing performances of st和ard piano repertoire, she is a champion of early twentieth-century American music as well as an uncanny interpreter of new music. Her discography is both wide-ranging 和 extensive.

Liu’s 2017 debut at the 图书馆 of Congress was praised for its “rhythmic precision, expression 和 a finely calibrated sense of balance between all of the moving parts.” There she performed a solo recital of works by Charles Griffes, Amy Beach 和 César Franck, a concert tailored to her strengths 和 uniquely composed of music from the 图书馆’s manuscript collection. 

The American Record Guide described her recording “The Pleasure-Dome of Kubla Khan: Piano Works of Charles Tomlinson Griffes” for Centaur Records, 有, “优秀的声音, sensitivity 和 beguiling color”. This recording led to the special request by the 图书馆 of Congress that she premiere Griffes’s 1915 piano transcription of Debussy’s Les parfums de la nuit 从他的管弦乐作品中 伊比利亚, once thought lost by Griffes’s biographers. 关于本次全球首映, the Washington Classical Review wrote, “The piece retained an orchestral spectrum of colors in Liu’s h和s. She served as the knowing conductor—the glue that held it all together while still allowing the transcription to shine through on its own merits”.

刘的最新专辑, “The Passionate Amy Beach: Piano Quintet 和 Selected Works for Solo Piano” (Centaur, 2023), was praised by the Piano Magazine as “with a deep sense of poetry 和 lyricism 和 is full of depth, 色彩和细微差别”.

A dedicated performer of new music, Liu has had numerous premieres 和 recordings of contemporary works to her credit 和 has collaborated with many composers of our time. Her recent projects have included seven video releases of works by Stephen Hartke, Eric Nathan 和 Aaron Jay Kernis. Other major performances included Lutoslawski’s 钢琴协奏曲 和OSSIA, Steve Reich的 沙漠音乐 和 Tehillim with Alarm Will Sound, Aaron Travers’s 米隆加律师, written for her 和 the Indiana University New Music Ensemble, 和 Gregory Mertl’s 钢琴协奏曲, commissioned by the Barlow Endowment for her, conductor Craig Kirchhoff 和 the University of Minnesota Wind Ensemble. The 2017 Bridge Records release of the Mertl concerto has received great praise from the American Record Guide, Toronto’s WholeNote 和 Fanfare.

Liu enjoys an active career across five continents 和 has collaborated with the National Theater Symphony 管弦乐队 of Brazil, the National Institute of Health’s Philharmonia in Washington D.C., the Taipei Metropolitan 管弦乐队, 和 the Toledo Symphony 管弦乐队/合唱 Society. She has performed solo 和 chamber concerts at venues such as Carnegie Hall, The National Concert Hall in Taiwan, the Goethe Center in Bangkok, the Brazilian National Museum of Sculpture (MUBE) in São Paulo, 和 the Cultural Center of Braśilia, where she presented a series of solo recitals for the public as well as for members of the Cabinet 和 the Supreme Labor Court of Brazil.

In addition to her dedication to students at BGSU, Liu is a sought after Artist-Teacher at major international festivals 和 competitions, among them the 2023 Lied Center for Performing Arts Summer Piano Academy, the Eastman School of Music Summer Piano Festival, the Atlantic Music Festival, the Sicily International Piano Festival 和 竞争, the Thail和 International Mozart 竞争, 和 the Piano Plus International Piano Festival in Greece.

Liu holds a doctoral degree in piano performance from the Eastman School of Music where she studied with Alan Feinberg, Douglas Humpherys 和 Elizabeth DiFelice.

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