American Eric Lu is the newest winner of the prestigious International Chopin Piano Competition held in Warsaw, Poland.
No composer embodies the Romantic image of the “pale and interesting” aesthete better than Frederic Chopin. Which is why quite a few classical music lovers are wary of him. They feel someone who was ...
In my 2021 Gramophone Chopin Competition blog, I wrote the following about Hyu’s older sibling Hyuk Lee: ‘Everything Lee plays sounds the same. He doesn’t make magic. He doesn’t make waves, nor take ...