Lyra Zihua Liu

Piano | Shanghai, China | Age 26 | First Year 

Chinese pianist and coach Lyra Zihua Liu is in her first year in the Lindemann Young Artist Development Program, where she will participate in the Program’s annual concert of opera scenes, Met Orchestra workshop with Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin, and annual recital series held at Merkin Hall. She most recently served as music staff for Aspen Opera Theater’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream under the baton of Dame Jane Glover. Additional operatic engagements include La Bohème with the Tianjin Juilliard School, Le Nozze di Figaro and Il Barbiere di Siviglia with Shanghai Conservatory, and Carmen with the China National Opera House. On the concert stage, she has performed in several Chinese premieres, including Varèse’s Désert with orchestra, Chou Wen-Chung’s Seven Poems of the T’ang Dynasty, Schoenberg’s Nachtwandler, Vaughan Williams’s On Wenlock Edge, and the world premiere of Niccolo Athen’s Five Classical Lyrics. She is the co-founder of “Zwei Duo,” a musical duo that focuses on exploring cross-cultural collaborations and performing contemporary art song. In 2024, Zwei Duo was the first Chinese ensemble ever admitted to the Franz-Schubert-Institut’s “Poetry and Performance of German Lied”. She is an alumna of the Aspen Music Festival Opera Coaching Fellowship, the Georg Solti Accademia, and the Franz-Schubert-Institut. She holds a degree in voice from the Xinghai Conservatory of Music, where she graduated with Honors, and degrees in opera coaching and collaborative piano from the Shanghai Conservatory of Music and The Tianjin Juilliard School.