Kate Liu.
She became world famous when she won third prize and the prize for the best performance of mazurkas at the 17th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw.

She initially studied at the Music Institute of Chicago with Alan Chow, Micah Yui and Emilio del Rosario. She then completed her undergraduate studies at the Curtis Institute of Music and went on to study at the Juilliard School with Robert McDonald and Yoheved Kaplinskaya. Born in Singapore, she began piano lessons at the age of four and moved to the United States at the age of eight.

She has won top laurels in several competitions such as the 3rd Asia-Pacific International Chopin Competition, international competitions in Montreal and New York.

She has performed at the Seoul Arts Centre, the Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre, Carnegie Hall (Weill Hall), Severance Hall in Cleveland, La Maison Symphonique in Montreal, the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., the concert halls of Shanghai and Osaka, the National Philharmonic in Warsaw and the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra in Katowice, among others. At the Symphony Centre in Chicago, she played Schubert's Fantasia in F minor for four hands with world-renowned pianist Lang Lang.

She has worked with, among others, the philharmonic orchestras of Warsaw and Poznań, the Polish Radio Orchestra, the symphony orchestras of Daegu, Montreal, Hilton Head, Evanston and Skokie Valley, the Cleveland Orchestra and the Rochester Philharmonic.

Her debut album of Chopin compositions was released in 2016 by the Fryderyk Chopin Institute (recordings of the pianist's competition performances).

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The Sunday Chopin Recitals in Żelazowa Wola provide an opportunity to listen to performances by the most eminent Polish and foreign pianists, world-renowned professors and winners of International Chopin Competitions. The 45-minute concerts take place during the season from May to the end of September, every Sunday at 12 p.m. and 3 p.m. In addition, the recitals at 12 p.m. on the last two Sundays of the month are broadcast on the YouTube channel and Facebook page of the Fryderyk Chopin Institute.