{"id":72627,"date":"2021-10-21T08:40:43","date_gmt":"2021-10-21T12:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/?p=72627"},"modified":"2021-10-21T08:40:43","modified_gmt":"2021-10-21T12:40:43","slug":"scoop-canadian-bruce-xiaoyu-liu-wins-18th-chopin-international-piano-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2021\/10\/21\/scoop-canadian-bruce-xiaoyu-liu-wins-18th-chopin-international-piano-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"THE SCOOP | Canadian Bruce (Xiaoyu) Liu Wins 18th Chopin International Piano Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-72628\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/Bruce_Xiaoyu_Liu_-Chopin_Competition_winner.jpg\" alt=\"Bruce_(Xiaoyu)_Liu_-Chopin_Competition_winner\" width=\"1200\" height=\"628\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Montreal-based pianist Xiaoyu (Bruce) Liu has won first place in the 18th Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Chopin International Piano Competition.<\/p>\n<p>He is the first Canadian ever to win the prestigious competition.<\/p>\n<p>Liu performed Chopin\u2019s <em>Concerto in E minor<\/em>,<em> Opus 11<\/em> for a full house with the National Philharmonic in Warsaw.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOh my god. I don\u2019t know what to say, honestly,\u201d Liu said after hearing the results. \u201cWe have been dreaming with all these people here for this prestigious stage here. Being able to play Chopin in Warsaw is one of the best things you can imagine, of course, so I\u2019m truly honoured for this award, for this jury\u2019s trust, and the public for all the warm regards I have received in recent days.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Liu is the second alumni after Charles Richard-Hamelin from the Conservatoire de musique de Montr\u00e9al to place at the competition.<\/p>\n<p>The second placing Canadian to make it to the finals, JJ Jun Li Bui, placed a respectable 6th place.<\/p>\n<p>Born in Paris in 1997, Liu grew up in Montreal, where he moved with his parents at the age of six.\u00a0In 2012, aged only fifteen, he won the OSM Competition, and in 2015, he won the Prix d\u2019Europe.<\/p>\n<p>The winners of the 2021 Chopin Competition are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1st prize &#8211; Bruce (Xiaoyu) Liu, Canada<\/li>\n<li>2nd prize ex aequo &#8211; Alexander Gadjiev, Italy \/ Slovenia<\/li>\n<li>2nd Prize ex aequo &#8211; Kyohei Sorita, Japan<\/li>\n<li>3rd Prize &#8211; Martin Garcia Garcia, Spain<\/li>\n<li>4th Prize ex aequo &#8211; Aimi Kobayashi, Japan<\/li>\n<li>4th Prize ex aequo &#8211; Jakub Kuszlik, Poland<\/li>\n<li>5th Prize &#8211; Leonora Armellini, Italy<\/li>\n<li>6th Prize &#8211; JJ Jun Li Bui, Canada<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Congratulations to all the winners!\u00a0Listen to Liu\u2019s final competition performance here:<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UcOjKXIR8Iw?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<h3 class=\"western\"><em><b>#LUDWIGVAN<\/b><\/em><\/h3>\n<p class=\"western\"><em>Get the daily arts news straight to your inbox.<\/em><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"western\"><em>Sign up for the Ludwig van Daily \u2014 classical music and opera in five minutes or less <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/ludwig-van.us9.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=4f785cb3f9058f2393ccad035&amp;id=57cdb68eac\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>HERE<\/em><\/a>.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Montreal-based pianist Xiaoyu (Bruce) Liu has won first place in the 18th Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Chopin International Piano Competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":72628,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[38476,17,39,47],"tags":[39835,5646],"yst_prominent_words":[7781,9943],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/Bruce_Xiaoyu_Liu_-Chopin_Competition_winner.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bakr-iTp","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72627"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72629,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72627\/revisions\/72629"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72627"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=72627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}