Sophia Liu
At just 17, Canadian pianist Sophia Liu is rapidly emerging as one of the most compelling artists of her generation. Her “extremely clear, delicate, refined and almost supernaturally fluid” touch, as described by Le Monde, combined with what Bachtrack called her “phenomenal virtuosity”, has captivated audiences around the world.
Sophia Liu opens her 2025/26 season with her debut with the NHK Symphony Orchestra in Tokyo and Osaka, performing Camille Saint-Saëns’s Piano Concerto No. 2 under the baton of Eva Ollikainen. Further highlights of the season include recitals at the Konzerthaus Berlin, Festival Radio France Occitanie Montpellier, Teatro La Fenice in Venice, Opéra National de Lyon, Tiroler Festspiele Erl, La Folle Journée in Nantes and Tokyo, the Festival International de Piano de La Roque d’Anthéron, Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi in Turin, Bologna Festival, the Chopin Society in Minnesota, Portland Ovations, the Musashino Cultural Foundation and Tokyo Yamaha Hall.
As a soloist, she appears in the 2025/26 season with orchestras including the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, Hawaii Symphony Orchestra and Sinfonia Varsovia. Recent engagements have included performances with the Cleveland Orchestra, the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Nice at La Folle Journée de Nantes and the Orchestre National de Cannes at La Roque d’Anthéron.
Sophia Liu is also internationally active as a recitalist. She has appeared at the Fondation Louis Vuitton, La Roque d’Anthéron, the International Chopin Piano Festival in Duszniki-Zdrój, the International Chopin and His Europe Festival in Warsaw, Festival La Grange de Meslay, Place des Arts in Montréal, the National Theater and Concert Hall in Taipei and the National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts – Weiwuying.
Born in Shanghai, Sophia Liu was raised in Japan before moving to Montréal at the age of seven to study with Dang Thai Son. She has won several prizes at international piano competitions, including First Prize at the 18th Ettlingen International Piano Competition, First Prize at the Thomas & Evon Cooper International Competition and various awards at the first edition of the Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli International Piano Competition. In October 2025, she released her first solo studio album, featuring Liszt’s Réminiscences de Norma and Chopin’s Andante spianato et Grande Polonaise.
