Known for her lyrical interpretations of the works of Fryderyk Chopin, Kate Liu – winner of third prize and the mazurka prize at the 17th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition – is returning to the stage of the Warsaw Philharmonic. Her remarkable ability to tease the most delicate nuances out of the keyboard made her a firm favourite with the Polish audience. Besides the jury’s verdict, she was also declared the winner of the poll conducted among listeners to Polish Radio.

During her performance this coming season, Kate Liu will be presenting her reading of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Piano Concerto in D minor, in which the virtuosity of the solo part gives way to the harmonious collaboration between piano and orchestra.

Strongly contrasting with that harmonious, delicate spirit of Classical sublimation is the exuberant Seventh Symphony in A major by Ludwig van Beethoven. This famous ‘apotheosis of dance’, as Richard Wagner described it, unerringly draws its admirers into an almost mysterious trance, and its second movement Allegretto is among the most famous examples of Beethoven’s orchestral inventiveness.

Jan Lech