{"id":74616,"date":"2022-03-29T17:15:51","date_gmt":"2022-03-29T21:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/?p=74616"},"modified":"2022-03-29T17:15:51","modified_gmt":"2022-03-29T21:15:51","slug":"scoop-bruce-liu-celebrates-world-piano-day-signing-deutsche-grammophon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2022\/03\/29\/scoop-bruce-liu-celebrates-world-piano-day-signing-deutsche-grammophon\/","title":{"rendered":"THE SCOOP | Bruce Liu Celebrates World Piano Day By Signing To Deutsche Grammophon"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_74617\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-74617\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-74617\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/Bruce-Liu-Deutsche-Grammphon.jpg\" alt=\"Bruce Liu picture with staff from Deutsche Grammophon (Photo: Bernd Jaworek)\" width=\"1200\" height=\"628\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-74617\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bruce Liu picture with staff from Deutsche Grammophon (Photo: Bernd Jaworek)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Canadian piano dynamo Bruce Liu has signed an exclusive contract with Deutsche Grammophon to honour World Piano Day.<\/p>\n<p>The news marks an incredible year for the young pianist who swept <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2021\/10\/21\/scoop-canadian-bruce-xiaoyu-liu-wins-18th-chopin-international-piano-competition\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">first place<\/a> at the 18th International Chopin Piano Competition. He was the first Canadian ever to win the competition.<\/p>\n<p>Deutsche Grammophon has already <a href=\"https:\/\/www.deutschegrammophon.com\/en\/catalogue\/products\/chopin-bruce-liu-12506\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">released an album<\/a> of Bruce Liu\u2019s performances from various stages of the 18th International Chopin Piano Competition.<\/p>\n<p>Gramophone called it \u201cone of the most distinguished Chopin recitals of recent years, full of maturity, character and purpose\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The label plans to release a series of e-singles starting April 1, with more to come throughout 2022. The pianist will also be working on two new albums: one on Liu&#8217;s connection to France with works by Chopin and Rameau. The second will feature Tchaikovsky&#8217;s <em>Concerto No. 2<\/em>.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Something in the water, eh?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Liu joins fellow Canadians Emily D\u2019Angelo, Jan Lisiecki and Yannick N\u00e9zet-S\u00e9guin in marquee releases at the so-called yellow label. Clemens Trautmann, President Deutsche Grammophon described Canada as \u201ca hotbed of musical talent\u201d.<\/p>\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>Canadian piano dynamo Bruce Liu has signed an exclusive contract with Deutsche Grammophon to honour World Piano Day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":74617,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[39907,77,39,47,51],"tags":[40017,1015],"yst_prominent_words":[18740,7140,11969,15838,7781,7691,6631,7693,7141,13317],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/Bruce-Liu-Deutsche-Grammphon.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bakr-jpu","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74616"}],"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=74616"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74618,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74616\/revisions\/74618"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74616"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=74616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}