Bruce Liu: How I won the Chopin Competition

From a new interview with CBC Canada:

‘A lot of people come to the competition with a program that they have prepared so well and they tried to bring that onstage, as stable as possible. But me, until the last minute, I was still trying to find new ideas. It’s a bit risky, you know, but I was really trying to find new things until the last minute that I was backstage. I think that was the challenge, actually, to not get bored of yourself after playing these pieces and practising them for thousands of hours.

(Since the competition) ‘I’ve already played Chopin’s E Minor Concerto seven times in 10 days. It was a tsunami of scheduling. And yeah, I really wanted to go home [to Montreal] after the competition — it’s really tiring, really intense — but then you realize you still have to be out for a long time. But I’m getting used to it. It’s a new adventure and challenge.’