Eric Lu
Eric Lu is the First Prize Winner of the 19th International Chopin Piano Competition 2025 in Warsaw. Before that he had won First Prize at the Leeds International Piano Competition in 2018 at the age of 20. Eric’s always thoughtful, poetically imbued and powerful interpretations have already made him one of the most distinctive artists on the international music scene.
Recent and forthcoming orchestral collaborations include the London Symphony, Chicago Symphony, Boston Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, NHK Symphony, Oslo Philharmonic, Finnish Radio Symphony, Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, Swedish Chamber Orchestra, Helsinki Philharmonic, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Bournemouth Symphony, Iceland Symphony, Tokyo Symphony, Singapore Symphony, Taipei Symphony, Shanghai Symphony at the BBC Proms, and Yomiuri Nippon Symphony, amongst others. Conductors he collaborates with include Riccardo Muti, Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, Ryan Bancroft, Edward Gardner, Marin Alsop, Sir Mark Elder, Thomas Dausgaard, Tabita Berglund, Tomas Netopil, Duncan Ward, Vasily Petrenko, Ruth Reinhardt, Kahchun Wong, Earl Lee, Nuno Coehlo, Martin Frӧst, Joann Falletta, Daníel Bjarnason, and Eliahu Inbal.
Active as a recitalist, he has performed at Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Queen Elizabeth Hall London, Leipzig Gewandhaus, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Wigmore Hall, Cologne Philharmonie, San Francisco Davies Hall, Cal Performances, Aspen Music Festival, BOZAR Brussels, Flagey, Fondation Louis Vuitton Paris, 92Y New York, Seoul Arts Center, Shanghai Symphony Hall, Victoria Hall Singapore, Chopin and his Europe Festival, Warsaw Philharmonic Hall, and Sala São Paulo.
Eric is an exclusive Warner Classics artist. His fourth album featuring the 2 opuses of Schubert’s Impromptus will be released in January 2026. His previous albums on Warner Classics were all met with worldwide critical acclaim. His 2022 Schubert album won BBC Music Magazine‘s Instrumental Choice while his previous Brahms-Chopin-Schumann album was hailed “truly magical” by International Piano.
Born in Massachusetts in 1997, Eric Lu first came to international attention as a Laureate of the 2015 Chopin International Competition in Warsaw, aged just 17. He was also awarded the International German Piano Award in 2017, and Avery Fisher Career Grant in 2021. Eric was a BBC New Generation Artist from 2019 to 2022. He is a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music, studying with Robert McDonald and Jonathan Biss. He also studied with Dang Thai Son and has been mentored by Mitsuko Uchida and Imogen Cooper. He is now based in Berlin and Boston.
