Charlie Liu is Junior majoring in Computer Science at Princeton University, and is one of the directors of the Princeton Piano Ensemble. He has taken part in the most renowned International and National competitions in the USA and won multiple top prizes, including 1st Prizes in the David Dubois Piano Competition and Thousand Islands International Piano Competition, 2nd Prizes in the MostArts Festival and Arthur Fraser International Piano Competition at the SouthEastern Piano Festival, 3rd Prizes in the 7th Yamaha USASU International Piano Competition. He is a seven-time 1st place winner in the New Jersey and Massachusetts Music Teacher Associations (including MTNA), and won 1st place of Steinway Society Scholarship Competition, Gold Prize of American Fine Arts Festival, and many more. At age 11, Charlie made his orchestra debut with the Bravura Philharmonic Orchestra. He has since soloed with the Lansdowne Symphony Orchestra, Ambler Symphony Orchestra, twice with the MostArts Festival Orchestra, and twice with the Midwest Young Artists Orchestra in the Millennium Park in Chicago.

In 2008, Charlie won the Lang Lang International Music Foundation Scholarship and remains the youngest ever selected by the Foundation. He set a world record at age 8 by completing a Carnegie Hall "Grand Slam" (performing in all 3 concert halls of the world-famous Carnegie Hall). Charlie performed in the Youtube Symphony Orchestra debut in the Carnegie Hall, on the Ellen DeGeneres Show and Oprah Winfrey Show as well as for luminaries such as Queen Rania of Jordan and Bono of U2. He also performed at other top venues across the U.S. from Lincoln Center and Merkin Hall in NY, to the Segerstrom Concert Hall in California.

Charlie is committed to helping the society and the community through his music, by initiating and organizing benefit events such as "Young Artists for Haiti" and 5 benefit solo recitals since age 9 that raised nearly $12000 for UI Children's Hospital, The Preemie Project, Plainsboro Rescue Squad and his own Rescue Music Foundation. He also regularly helps out at other charity events, fundraisers and community events, bringing the joy of classical music to local schools and communities through public solo recitals.

Charlie is also a recipient of the Scheide Fund, Elmer and Louise Menges and Dr. H. Korkina Scholarships and a participant of the Westminster Conservatory's Young Artists Program and various chamber groups. In his leisure time, Charlie enjoys a variety of video games and excelled in top level individual and team Math competitions. He was a travel hockey player for 8 years.

Charlie's Video Links
Liszt La Campanella 
Beethoven 32 Variations (13 yo, his NJMTA performance)
Beethoven Concerto No. 3 Mvt I (12 yo, Millenium Park in Chicago in 2013)

Charlie Liu Wins Lang Lang Scholarship

Charlie Liu (see biography above), an 11-year-old student of Mrs Clarfield's, was selected to be one of the first three scholarship winners ever of the inaugural Lang Lang International Music Foundation, a foundation created for introducing children to classical music. Also the youngest winner, Charlie performed first with the immensely popular Chopin's Nocturne Op 9 No 2 to the enthusiastic applause of hundreds of New York City school children as well as adult classical music lovers. Mrs. Clarfield taught Charlie the piece using her special edition of this beautiful Nocturne. Ever so encouraging, Lang Lang even joked that Charlie performed better than he did! After the concert concluded, the Time For Kids magazine chose to interview Charlie after being "very impressed with his Bio".