Ji Liu

Chinese-born Ji Liu has become one of the most popular pianists in Britain, with a series of hugely successful crossover albums released directly by the popular Classic FM radio network. Ji was born in Shanghai in 1990 into a music-loving, but not professionally music-making, family. He asked for and was given piano lessons beginning at age three and progressed to the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, studying conducting in addition to piano. In 2003 he won the Pinault Piano Competition in New York and garnered a recital debut at Carnegie Hall as a result. Ji went on to study ...