George Li

Recent and upcoming concerto highlights include performances with the Los Angeles, New York, London, Rotterdam, Oslo and St Petersburg Philharmonic, the San Francisco, Tokyo, Frankfurt Radio, Sydney and Montreal Symphony, as well as the Philharmonia, DSO Berlin and Orchestra National de Lyon. In the 2019/20 season, Li performs with the Orchestra of the National Centre for the Performing Arts, appears at the Vienna Musikverein with the Tonkünstler Orchestra and embarks on an eight-concert tour of Germany with the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra performing at venues including the Berlin Philharmonie, Philharmonie am Gasteig Munich and the Stuttgart Liederhalle. He frequently appears with Valery Gergiev and the Mariinsky Orchestra, including performances at the Paris Philharmonie, Luxembourg Philharmonie, New York’s Brooklyn Academy of Music, Graffenegg Festival and in various venues throughout Russia.

In recital, Li performs at venues including Carnegie Hall, Davies Hall in San Francisco, the Mariinsky Theatre, Elbphilharmonie, Munich’s Gasteig, the Louvre, Seoul Arts Center, Tokyo’s Asahi Hall and Musashino Hall, NCPA Beijing, Shanghai Poly Theater and Amici della Musica Firenze, as well as appearances at major festivals including the Edinburgh International Festival, Verbier Festival, Ravinia Festival, Festival de Pâques in Aix-en-Provence Festival, and Montreux Festival.

An active chamber musician, Li has performed alongside Benjamin Beilman, Noah Bendix-Balgley, James Ehnes, Daniel Hope, Sheku Kanneh-Mason and Kian Soltani. Li is an exclusive Warner Classics recording artist, with his debut recital album released in October 2017 which was recorded live from the Mariinsky. His second recording for the label features Liszt solo works and Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1 which was recorded live with Vassily Petrenko and the London Philharmonic. The album is scheduled for release in autumn 2019.

Li gave his first public performance at Boston’s Steinway Hall at the age of ten and in 2011, performed for President Obama at the White House in an evening honoring Chancellor Angela Merkel. Among Li’s many prizes, he was the recipient of the 2016 Avery Fisher Career Grant, a recipient of the 2012 Gilmore Young Artist Award, and the First Prize winner of the 2010 Young Concert Artists International Auditions. He is currently pursuing an Artist Diploma at the New England Conservatory, continuing to work with Wha Kyung Byun. When not playing piano, George is an avid reader and photographer, as well as a sports fanatic.

2019/20 season / 467 words. Not to be altered without permission.