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18 July — 6 September 2025

Cycle «Change III» 2023 — 2025

Kate Liu

Thursday, 15 August 2024, Rougemont Church

Chamber Music

Thursday, 15 August 2024
7.30 pm, Rougemont Church

To excel in one of the most demanding competitions on the circuit – the Warsaw Chopin Competition – is honourable enough. To do so by outperforming all the other candidates in one of the competition’s “specialities” – the interpretation of a mazurka, an iconic form of Frédéric Chopin’s art – is quite a feat. Of Singaporean origin and trained in the United States, Kate Liu has been awarded with the Olivier Berggruen Prize, joining the ranks of previous awardees Pallavi Mahidhara and Alexandra Dovgan. The Olivier Berggruen Prize was initiated by the passionate music enthusiast and long-standing friend of the Festival who divides his time between New York and Gstaad and currently serves as the Artistic Advisor for Gstaad Menuhin Festival & Academy. The set of variations in Schumann’s Symphonic Studies navigate through nearly every technical challenge the piano has to offer. Moreover, Kate Liu’s programme features the youthful Beethoven in his “Pathétique” as well as his late compositional period by the Opus 109 as a piece already hinting towards the future.

 

This concert is offered by
OLIVIER & DESIREE BERGGRUEN

 

Avec le généreux soutien de la Loterie Romande

Loterie Romande

Kate Liu, Piano
Prize Winner Olivier Berggruen Prize 2024
3rd Prize Chopin International Competition (Warsaw) 2015

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) 
Piano Sonata No. 8 in C Minor, Op. 13, “Pathétique”20'
Piano Sonata No. 30 in E Major, Op. 10920'
Robert Schumann (1810-1856) 
Symphonic Studies, Op. 1335'
 80'
CHF 85/60/40