Frederic Chiu, born October 20, 1964 in Ithaca, New York, is a classical pianist. He studied music at Butler University and Indiana University, and later graduated from the Juilliard School where he studied under Abbey Simon. Chiu won the Kosciuszko Foundation Frédéric Chopin Piano Competition in 1984, received the Petschek Award from the Juilliard School in 1994, which led to his recital debut at Alice Tully Hall, and was awarded the Avery Fisher Career Grant in 1996. After a twelve-year career performing in France, he returned to the United States. His recording career began in 1991 with a series of transcriptions for Harmonia Mundi, followed by a major project to record the complete piano sonatas of Sergey Prokofiev. In 2015, he released Distant Voices (2015) on the Yamaha Entertainment Group label, featuring works by Claude Debussy and Gao Ping, followed by the album Hymnes et Derviches (2016) on Centaur Records, which featured a selection of Gurdjieff and de Hartmann compositions. He performed with the BBC Concert Orchestra and the Kansas City Symphony, and collaborated with violinist Joshua Bell and several string quartets.
