Фредерик Чу

Frederic Chiu (born 20 October 1964) is a Chinese American classical concert pianist.Chiu was born in Ithaca, New York. He studied music and computer science at Indiana University, then pursued his musical studies in New York at the Juilliard School, where he studied with Abbey Simon. During his studies he won numerous piano competitions, including the Kosciuszko Foundation Chopin Piano Competition and the Music Teachers National Association Competition, both in 1984. He was awarded the American Pianist Association Fellowship (formerly known as the Beethoven Foundation).After his studies, he moved to France, where he lived for 12 years. His career developed without entering the circuit of international piano competitions. His recording career began in 1991 with Harmonia Mundi USA, 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, Prokofiev and Saint-Saëns. He recorded the Liszt transcription for solo piano of the Beethoven Symphony #5.

In 1993, he entered the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, where his exclusion from the final round created enormous media coverage. He was invited increasingly to play 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 Orchestra, the Indianapolis Symphony, the Kansas City Symphony, the Dayton Philharmonic, the Hartford Symphony, the Orchestre de Bretagne of France, the China National Symphony, and the Taipei National Symphony. He has played recitals in many major cities in Europe, Asia, Northern Africa, South America and North America. In chamber music, he frequently performs with long-time friend Joshua Bell. Other artists he has collaborated with include the St Lawrence Quartet, the Shanghai Quartet, the Daedalus Quartet, cellist Gary Hoffman, violinist Pierre Amoyal and clarinetist David Krakauer.

He has given master classes at major universities and music schools around the world, including the Juilliard School, New England Conservatory and the Jacob School of Music at Indiana University. Frederic Chiu also created a series of workshops entitled "Deeper Piano Studies" that approach piano playing through non-traditional methods uniting different philosophies of music, performance and learning.