Eric Lu (USA), Guest Artist

Eric Lu won the First Prize and coveted Gold Medal at the 2025 Chopin International Competition in Warsaw. He is also the winner of the XIX Leeds International Piano Competition in England. Eric’s always thoughtful, poetically imbued and powerful interpretations have already made him one of the most distinctive artists on the international music scene.

​

Recent and forthcoming orchestral collaborations include the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, NHK Symphony, Oslo Philharmonic, Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg, Stockholm Philharmonic, Scottish Chamber, Finnish Radio Symphony, Yomiuri Nippon Symphony, Seattle Symphony, Helsinki Philharmonic, Royal Philharmonic, Tokyo Symphony, Orchestre National de Lille, Shanghai Symphony at the BBC Proms, amongst others. Conductors he collaborates with include Riccardo Muti, Mirga Gražinytė 

Tyla, Ryan Bancroft, Fabio Luisi, Marin Alsop, Duncan Ward, Vasily Petrenko, Edward Gardner, Sir Mark Elder, Thomas Dausgaard, Ruth Reinhardt, Earl Lee, Kerem Hasan, Nuno Coehlo, Dinis Sousa, and Martin Frӧst.

​

Active as a recitalist, he is presented on stages including the Köln Philharmonie, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Queen Elizabeth Hall London, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Leipzig Gewandhaus, San Francisco Davies Hall, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, BOZAR Brussels, Flagey, Tokyo Opera City Hall, Shanghai Symphony Hall, Klavierfestival Ruhr, La Roque-d'Anthéron Festival, Aspen Music Festival, Seoul Arts Centre, Warsaw Philharmonic Hall, and Sala São Paulo. In 2025, he is appearing for the 7th consecutive year in recital at Wigmore Hall London.

​

Eric’s third album on Warner Classics was released in December 2022, featuring Schubert Sonatas D. 959 and 784. It was met with worldwide critical acclaim, receiving BBC Music Magazine’s Instrumental Choice, writing, “Lu’s place among today’s Schubertians is confirmed”. His previous album of the Chopin 24 Preludes, and Schumann’s Geistervariationen was hailed ‘truly magical’ by International Piano. He will release a new album of the complete Schubert Impromptus on Warner Classics in early 2026. Deutsche Grammophon released a live album of the highlights of the 19th International Chopin Competition in November 2025.

​

Born in Massachusetts in 1997, Eric Lu is a graduate of the Curtis Institute Music, studying with Robert McDonald and Jonathan Biss. He also studied with Dang Thai Son from 2011-2018. Eric was awarded the International German Piano Award in 2017 and Avery Fisher Career Grant in 2021.