Meng-Chieh Liu, piano

E-flat major, D. 568; C major, ‘Relique’, D.840; A minor, D. 845″Liu is a musical visionary with unusual insights… a pianist whose playing sounded as natural as breathing,” declared The Toronto Star in extolling the virtuosity of Meng-Chieh Liu, which had been evident to critics and observers since he began advanced piano studies at age 13 at Philadelphia’s Curtis Institute of Music. A prodigy grown into an internationally renowned artist, tonight Liu makes the first in a series of four Old First Concerts appearances devoted to performing the complete piano sonatas of Franz Schubert.