Eric Lu

USA, Piano
2020 Scholar

 Curtis Institute of Music, Philadelphia

First Prize and FAZ-Audience-Award, VII International German Piano Award, Frankfurt, Germany 2017
First Prize, and Terence Judd–Hallé Orchestra Prize, Leeds International Piano Competition 2018
Avery Fisher Career Grant  2021
First Prize  International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition 2025

“2020 has been a difficult year for all of us, including many musicians worldwide, so I was especially grateful to be invited to work with Imogen Cooper, someone I’ve admired deeply and looked up to since my childhood. In recent years, she has become a wonderful mentor and friend to me, and it was especially exciting to be able to look in-depth into Schubert’s late A major sonata, a work Imogen has lived with her whole life, and something I will certainly do as well. The three days we spent working on the score were insightful and invaluable. I would like to thank ICMT for enabling us to spend this precious time together in London.”

  • Programme:

    Wang Chenwei: World Premiere (new work)
    Chopin: Piano Concerto No.1 in E minor Op.11
    Bartók: Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta Sz.106

  • Programme

    Solo recital — Chopin Competition tour programme:
    Schubert: Impromptus; Chopin: Polonaise-Fantasie; Barcarolle; Sonata in B minor Op.58

  • Programme:

    Solo recital — Prague Spring Festival. Programme from Chopin Competition repertoire.

  • Programme:

    Robert Schumann
    Forest Scenes, Op. 82

    Frédéric Chopin
    Polonaise in B-flat major, Op. 71 No. 2
    Polonaise-Fantasy in A-flat major, Op. 61 and other works

    Franz Schubert
    Impromptu in F minor, Op. 142 No. 1

  • Programme:

    Schumann: Waldszenen op. 82

    Chopin: Polonaise op. 71 n°2 Ballade n°4 op. 52

    Schubert: Impromptu op. 142 No. 1

    Chopin: Sonata No. 3, Op. 58

  • Chief Conductor Ryan Bancroft conducts Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3 with Eric Lu as soloist.

  • Programme

    Brahms Symphony No. 2
    Chopin Piano Concerto No. 2
    With the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Fabio Luisi (Conductor)

  • With The Philadelphia Orchestra & Xian Zhang Conductor

    Programme:

    Tchaikovsky Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor, Op. 23

  • With María Dueñas (violin)

    Programme

    SCHUBERT: Duo Sonata in A major, D. 574, op. 162
    MOZART: Violin Sonata in E minor, K. 304 (K. 300c)
    BRAHMS: Violin Sonata No. 3 in D minor, op. 108

  • Programme:

    Brahms: Theme and Variations in D minor, Op. 18b;

    Schubert: Four Impromptus, D. 935;

    Chopin: Polonaise in B-flat major, Op. 71 No. 2;

    Chopin: Piano Sonata No. 3 in B minor, Op. 58

  • Solo Recital

  • Programme;

    Brahms: Theme and Variations in D minor (1860)
    Schubert: Four Impromptus D935
    Chopin: Polonaises Op.71
    Chopin: Sonata in B minor Op.58

  • With the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Rafael Payare, Conductor

    Programme:
    Chopin Concerto No. 1 in E minor, Op. 11

Contact details: ericlupianist.com

Future Performances