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Canadian pianist Bruce Xiaoyu Liu was awarded first prize in the Chopin piano competition in Warsaw on Thursday, clinching one of the world’s most prestigious music awards. “Being able to play Chopin in Warsaw is one of the best things you can imagine,” 24-year-old Liu said as the jury announced their decision at the Warsaw Philharmonic Concert Hall.
For South Korean pianist Su Yeon Kim, the music of Frederic Chopin is a way of life and competing in the world’s most prestigious event bearing the French-Polish composer’s name is a dream come true. She says the first piece by the 19th-century composer and piano virtuoso – who was born in 1810 and died in 1849 – that she learned to play as a child was his Minute Waltz.