ABOUT
Lisa Liu is a guitarist based in San Francisco, California and is always on the move playing shows around the world. She plays jazz, jazz manouche, and solo guitar. Liu is an Artist Ambassador for Santa Cruz Guitar Company, Sadowsky Guitars, Larkspur Guitars and Krivo Pickups. Liu is a Teaching Artist and writer for Acoustic Guitar Magazine and has performed and taught alongside Mimi Fox, Martin Taylor and John Knowles CGP. Liu also performs with the acclaimed African-American Poet Cornelius Eady who was the Inaugural Poet for Zohran Mamdani's NYC mayoral inauguration. She is a Teaching Artist at TrueFire, Django and June, Puget Sound Guitar Workshop, and has also been an Artist In Residence at The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, La Maison De Beaumont (France) and Hors Saison (France). Liu also works with the San Francisco Symphony providing educational outreach music performances in the SF Unified schools.
Liu has performed at Birdland (NYC), The Guggenheim Museum (NYC), Django Reinhardt Festival (France), SiX The Musical on Broadway (NYC), Djangofest NW (WA), Rocky Mountain Archtop Guitar Festival (CO), AAPI Jazz Festival (NJ), The Freight & Salvage (CA), The Music Center at Strathmore (MD), The Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery (Washington DC), Academy of Music (MA), Yale University (CT), Princeton University (NJ), Joe's Pub (NYC), Barbès (NYC).
Liu has released 2 jazz albums: Introducing Lisa Liu in 2018, and Temperance in 2024, and has composed music for Christine Toy Johnson's Broadway play A Little More Blue in 2023.
Liu is the recipient of The Creative Rebuilds New York Grant and The South Arts Jazz Roads Tour Grant.
"Liu performs with a confident grace that reveals an intuitive command of her instrument, and her versatile picking style ranges from a playful nimbleness to straight-up jamming."
-Christa Titus/Billboard Magazine
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