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Chopin Piano Concerto in E Minor No.1 - Ji Liu and NCPA Orchestra (2020)

Chopin Piano Concerto in E Minor No.1, Op.11 00:25 Allegro maestoso 21:24 Romanze – Larghetto (E major) 31:25 Rondo – Vivace in E major 2020 Mercedes Benz New Year's Concert National Centre for the Performing Arts, Beijing NCPA Orchestra Chief Conductor - Lü Jia Piano - Ji Liu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ China NCPA Orchestra is the resident orchestra of National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA), Beijing. Established in March 2010, the orchestra performs in more than a dozen opera productions presented by its home venue every year as well as in regular orchestral concerts in its own season. The orchestra has gained critical acclaim for its performances in the NCPA’s opera productions of not only classical repertoire, but works such as Tosca, Die Fledermaus, Lohengrin, Aida, Nabucco, but also newly commissioned works like The Chinese Orphan and The Rickshaw Boy. Their performance of the mammoth Ring Without Words with its creator, Lorin Maazel, was released on SONY Classics worldwide, the only recording the great maestro ever made with a Chinese orchestra. The NCPA Orchestra has flexed its wings on the international stage, receiving widespread international praise for its performances at the Kissingen Summer Music Festival and the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival and concerts in many cities throughout Germany as well as in Sydney, Singapore, Seoul, Daegu, Taipei and Macau. During the 2014/2015 season, the orchestra undertook its first North American tour, where it performed in seven major cities in the US and Canada, under their Chief Conductor Lü Jia. Most recently, in April 2019 the orchestra travelled to Seoul to perform the closing concert of Seoul Arts Center’s annual Orchestra Festival, celebrating its 30th anniversary. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------   A China-born UK-based pianist, composer and researcher, Ji Liu has performed at major UK venues and festivals, including Royal Albert Hall, Royal Festival Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Barbican Centre and Wigmore Hall, Birmingham's Symphony Hall, Bristol's Colston Hall, Newcastle's Sage Gateshead, Liverpool Philharmonic Hall, etc. International venues and festivals such as Carnegie Hall and 92nd Street Y in New York City, Auditorium du Louvre in Paris, Royal Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Salle Garnier Opéra de Monte-Carlo; Henley Festival, Leeds International Music Festival, Bath International Music Festival, Brighton Music Festival, Petworth Festival and Bristol Proms in the UK, Verbier Festival and Gstaad Festival in Switzerland and the Stavanger Chamber Music Festival in Norway.    He has performed regularly with the Philharmonia Orchestra and has worked closely with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, on its China tour under Vasily Petrenko and at the Royal Albert Hall and its opening season concerts at the Liverpool Philharmonic Hall. He also performs frequently with orchestras across Europe and China.  In 2021, Ji Liu played at major concert venues throughout China performing Liszt's 12 Transcendental Etudes and Bach's keyboard works as well as his own compositions. He also performed the Chinese premiere of Boris Bergmann's The Richter Scale (dedicated to Ji Liu) and the Chinese premiere of Philip Glass's Complete Piano Etudes Books I and II.   Ji Liu was the soloist giving the world premiere of Ludovico Einaudi's Piano Concerto with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra under Damian Iorio. He performed for His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, the Royal Family, and other distinguished guests at Dumfries House as part of Classic FM's 25th birthday celebrations.    As a prolific recording artist, Ji Liu's highlighted albums include Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue with Royal Academy of Music Symphonic Brass and James Watson and the solo recording Piano Reflections released by Classic FM, which reached number one on the UK charts, Piano Encores, Pure Chopin and Fire and Water.   Ji Liu has composed works for orchestra, choir, chamber ensemble and solo instruments. His compositions draw on diversified genres of improvisation, avant-garde techniques, classical Western forms and minimalism. His Fantasia: Frozen Starry (2021) was co-commissioned by Johnson & Johnson and WABC Foundation to support children with Autism. In 2022 Heresy Records released his composition Sonata Fantasy, The Book of Moments, a work in 21 chapters that is eighteen hours in length, the longest instrumental piece ever recorded.   Ji Liu studied Piano Performance with Professor Christopher Elton and Composition with Professor Ruth Byrchmore at the Royal Academy of Music. He holds a PhD in Music from King’s College London and is a Guest Professor at Shenzhen University. Since 2018 Ji Liu has served as Head of Performance at the Kent International Piano Course.