Born and raised in Hong Kong, Elise Liu is an award-winning percussion soloist, chamber musician and educator. She has received top prizes in several international competitions including First Prize at the Australian Marimba Competition in 2019, First Prize at the Italy Percussion Competition (Marimba Class A) in 2013 and Young International Musician of the Year at the 70th Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod in Wales. Her distinctions in Hong Kong include the Student of the Year Award for Performing Artist (SCMP and Hong Kong Jockey Club 2015), winner of the RTHK Radio 4 Young Music Makers 2015 and winner of the 2016 Parsons Music Scholarship for Wind, Brass and Percussion (Open Class Competition of the Hong Kong Schools Music Festival). Elise Liu holds a Bachelor of Music from the Eastman School of Music and a Master of Music from the Haute école de musique de Lausanne in Switzerland. Her mentors include Michael Burritt, Emmanuel Séjourné, Vassilena Serafimova, Arnaud Stachnick and Simone Rubino. She is a recipient of the Hong Kong Jockey Club Music and Dance Fund, the Hong Kong Scholarship for Excellence, the Bernard van Zuiden Music Fund and the Dean’s Performance Award from the Eastman School of Music.