Frederic Chiu Biography

Frederic Chiu is a Chinese-American Classical concert pianist. He studied music and computer science at Indiana University, then pursued his musical studies in New York at the Juilliard School. During his studies he won numerous piano competitions, including the Kosciuszko Chopin Competition in 1984, the Music Teachers National Association Competition in 1984 and the American Pianist Association Fellowship (formerly known as the Beethoven Foundation). He moved to France for 12 years, beginning his career without entering the usual circuit of international piano competitions. His recording career began in 1991, with the well-received release of a program of piano transcriptions. He followed that with a large project of recording the complete Piano Sonatas of Sergei Prokofiev. His recorded repertoire includes Mendelssohn, Rossini, Chopin, Liszt, Grieg, Brahms, Ravel, Decaux, Schoenberg, Schubert and Prokofiev. In 1993, he entered the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, where his exclusion from the final round created enormous media coverage. He was invited to play more and more in the United States, where he eventually returned to live. Highlights of his performances include concerts with the BBC Concert Orchestra and the BBC Scottish Symphony, the Indianapolis Symphony, the Kansas City Symphony, the Dayton Philharmonic, the Hartford Symphony, the Orchestre de Bretagne of France, the China National Symphony, the Taipei National Symphony. He has played recitals in many major cities in Europe, Asia, Northern Africa, South America and North America. He has given masterclasses at major universities and music schools around the world. Frederic Chiu also created a series of workshops entitled Deeper Piano Studies, which approach piano playing through non-traditional methods that unite different philosophies of music and performance.

Frederic Chiu is a Yamaha Artist.