COMPETITOR
SHUAN LIU, 18

FINALIST

Shuan Liu is a second-year Classical Performance student at The University of Auckland. She studies under Rae de Lisle and Stephen De Pledge. Shuan started playing the piano at the age of six and has achieved many awards and scholarships in local and national competitions. Highlights of these include the Margaret Doone Piano Sonata Scholarship (IRMTNZ Auckland), the Norah Howell Piano Recital Award, Pacific International Music Competition for Youth and New Zealand Junior Piano Competition. Chamber music is of great interest to her too. Last year, she progressed to the finals of NZCT Chamber Music Contest with Trio Achilles and won the Helen Young Diamond Award. Shuan is immensely grateful to have been both a Chiron Senior Scholar in 2020 and 2021, and a Haydn Staples Scholar in 2021, where she received opportunities to perform Chamber music and a Concerto with the Auckland Philharmonic Orchestra in addition to guidance from Bryan Sayer. She is also grateful to have received an Arts Excellence Award from the Dame Malvina Foundation. Shuan has been selected as one of the Young Artists to participate in the Wakatipu Music Festival in April this year.

FINAL ROUND

Medtner
Piano Sonata No. 12, ‘Romantica’
Romanza
Scherzo
Meditazione
Finale

Gluck
Melodie from Orfeo ed Euridice (arranged Sgambati)