LIU Hongye 
刘红叶

Hongye LIU, Chinese, she began playing the piano at the age of six. She entered the Xi'an Conservatory at the age of fifteen where she studied with Professor Min LI. During her studies, she was a piano accompanist in class of Xiaoying HAN (cellist, student of the secondary generation of Mstislav ROSTROPOVITH). She regularly received advice from Shaobo ZHU (conductor), and each of these teachers transmitted her passion for music. She obtained her degree in interpretation in 2011, and then worked at the same conservatory. 

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Hongye LIU then joined the class of Catherine IMBERT at the Conservatoire d'Aulnay- sous-bois with whom she developed her piano playing and musicality. She also discovered instrumental accompaniment, improvisation and jazz with Damien NEDONCHEL. Thereafter, she perfected her skills by taking a master’s degree in Composition and Musical Interpretation at the Higher Academy of Music in Strasbourg with Amy LIN (student of Leon FLEISHER, and Gerhard OPPITZ) from 2017 to 2019. She also benefits from the advice of Judith GAUTHIER for instrumental accompaniment, Michel GAECHTER for fortepiano, Christine HERAUD for harpsichord, as well as Dany ROUET and Pierre BRÉGEOT for chamber music. She is currently pursuing a doctorate in Interpretation and Musical Creation at the Académie supérieure de musique de Strasbourg – HEAR/University of Strasbourg, under the artistic direction of Amy LIN on piano, and Mathieu SCHNEIDER in theoretical research. 

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During her studies, Hongye LIU was invited several times to accompany concerts and competitions in China, and participated in several piano master classes with Alessandro AMORETTI, Boris BERMAN, Karl KAMMERLANDER, Jan MICHIELS, Joel Wizansky, as well as Pierre GOY on fortepiano. She is programmed in different musical seasons and with different repertoires from classical to contemporary, such as the project with the Ensemble Accroche Note, the soloist recital at the Saint-Guillaume church, the Jeune Talents at the Musée Würth, at the MUSICA Festival of Strasbourg under the direction of Armand ANGSTER, with the contemporary ensemble under the direction of Luigi GAGGERO as well as of Jean-Philippe WURTZ. She was also selected to perform George GERSHWIN's Piano Concerto in F major with the symphony orchestra of the Académie supérieure de musique de Strasbourg under the baton of Miguel ETCHEGONCELAY. She has recently performed at the Strasbourg Conservatory and recorded Erlkönig by Hugues DUFOURT in the presence of the composer. The recordings will be part of a CD to be released by Coviello Classics (Darmstadt) in 2023. 

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Passionate about symphonic music, especially Beethoven's symphonies, she is doing research on “the interpretation of symphonies on the piano”, the research and imitation of orchestral timbre and resonance on the piano. This will be her dissertation topic, done under the direction of Rudolf WEBER, which was unanimously noticed in the field of piano performance, and earns her the title of Master in performance in 2019. In 2021, she will further explore the subject for her doctoral dissertation under the direction of Mr. SCHNEIDER. Her approach is to combine musicology and interpretation, she wishes to spread the transcriptions on the stage, to make known these works too little played, and to show that it is possible and enriching to make the piano sound like an orchestra.

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She is also passionate about teaching and gives piano lessons in several music schools, sharing and transmitting her musicality and passion for music to future musicians. Her goal is to awaken their curiosity, stimulate their interest and pass on what she has learned so that they can read and play whatever they like.