Anqi Liu Music Edu
Piano Lessons
I have been teaching piano since 2010 to students from age 4 to adults. I travel to your place to offer piano lessons.
I work with each student to find an individual and personal path. Whether you want to refine and deepen your skills towards the classical repertoires, prepare for the competition and auditions, express yourself through playing the piano, rearrange your loved songs and perform them on the piano, sight read and improvise, or begin reading music and playing an instrument for the first time, I will guide you through valuable and efficient strategies and develop a personal style, voice, and technique. In such a journey, you practice and improve your piano and musical skills with joy and high self-discipline.
Music is about sharing and listening. I organize one solo recital and one chamber recital each year for my students to perform in front of the audience.
Music Theory Lessons
I have been teaching music theory with diverse needs in private lessons, middle/high school, and university classroom situations for 11 years.
I design music theory lessons and ear training lessons around you. Whether you want to analyze classical repertoires, understand the harmonic structure and chord progressions of your loved songs, explore the background and the harmonic functions of the styles you appreciate, prepare for competitions/exams and conservatory auditions, or begin reading music for the first time, I will guide you through efficient and personal methodologies to develop and deepen your understanding of music.
My pedagogical approach to music theory is always informed by a desire to connect practices and theories and to build aural and theoretical comprehension in tandem with one another. In doing so, theory becomes both an organic reflection of sonic observations and a point of departure for intellectual extrapolations as well as heuristic investigations. I encourage students to trust that their cumulative experiences will reveal how their own handling of music theory; will continue to grow from practice, perseverance, and curiosity.
Composition/Music Production Lessons
I have been teaching composition and music production lessons to various student bodies for 6 years. I believe each individual can create, compose and make music. Whether you are a well-trained musician or begin reading music the first time, I design lessons based on your talents and situations. I offer multiple opportunities to my students to work with internationally established musicians and venues for listening to their works live.
Click HERE to a concert of 10 premieres of my composition students.
About Me
Praised as The Wire magazine as "iridescent delicacy" and "dissolves it (musical materials) in a vat of acid", and described by New York Music Daily as “the big epic,” Anqi Liu is a composer, interdisciplinary/multimedia artist, photographer and film maker. Her solo album featured her improvisatory performance with synthesizers, was described as “detailed, narrative-driven sound that traipses across the physical and historical world to make connections we might not initially perceive.” by Boomkat. The San Diego Union-Tribune reviewed her orchestral work How Light Arrives... praising her unique sense of musical color and compositional introspection.
Her works have been internationally recognized with performances and premieres across the U.S, Europe, and Asia at venues and concert halls like Automata Theater (Los Angeles), The P.I.T (NYC), Downtown Music Gallery (NYC), Le Poisson Rouge (NYC), Shapeshifter Lab (NYC), The Firehouse Space (NYC), Dusk Dawn Club (BJ), Beijing Mao Live House, INNER FIELD (NYC), Spectrum (NYC), MIRY Concertzaal (Belgium), Hotelier Porto (Portugal), Palace of Fontainebleau (France) and others. She has been commissioned by and has been closely working with a group of musicians, ensembles, conferences, residencies, organizations and festivals such as Project [Blank], The Reiefestival 2023 (Belgium), Bludenzer Tage zeitgemäßer Musik 2022 (Austria), ACTOR (McGill University, Montreal), Steven Schick, Kynan Johns, King Britt, Kyle Motl, Nina Vanhoenacker, New Brunswick Chamber Orchestra, Mivos Quartet, DECODA Music, Darmstädter Ferienkurse 2021, Ensemble Dal Niente Summer Residency 2021, International Society of Bassists Convention 2021, Oh My Ears Festival 2021, Ircam ManiFeste the Academy 2020, ELECTRONIC MUSIC WEEKEND MISE-EN_PLACE Bushwick 2019, Kalv Music Academy (Sweden), California Electronic Music Exchange Concert (Stanford), Ecoles d'Art Américaines de Fontainebleau (Paris), International Computer Music Conference 2017 (ICMC), Connecticut Summerfest Contemporary Music Festival, and many others.
Her work illuminates the interplay between human micro-kinetic capabilities and the psychological boundaries that shape our physical and mental ecologies. Anqi interweaves and processes samples of her acoustic compositions with field recordings she has conducted across various lands and communities, as well as improvisational sessions on synthesizers and laptops. Her design approach to signal processing and patching is deeply rooted in sonic evolution, balancing the unpredictability of electronic systems with the tangible artistry of fine-tuning controls. Her practice of recording and mixing embodies a ritualistic ethos, where sonic phenomena arise organically from the system’s possibilities and the known, yet unfold with effortless, ecological fluidity, embracing the unknown, the unpredictable and even accidents. Her audio visual works draw on her photography to generate both gestural and textural elements.
Anqi is part of the Motl/Liu Duo (free improv), the Liu/Bourdeau Duo (audio-visual ecology), and the cross-disciplinary āññā Duo (with Han Zhang). Her portrait album of her acoustic chamber music will be released by KAIROS Music (Vienna). Anqi has taught and designed courses in music theory, composition, multimedia and sound studies at UC San Diego, and currently serves as a subject matter expert at Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design (RMCAD), shaping the BFA in Music Production. A Ph.D. (ABD) candidate in Music Composition at UC San Diego, she holds a Master of Arts in Music Composition from Rutgers University and dual degrees in Music Performance and Law from Xiamen University.
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