Devoted to the future of piano pedagogy, Dr. Liu has presented lecture-recitals in the US and China. He has performed internationally at concert halls in New York, Boston, Colorado, Hangzhou, Shanghai, Salzburg, and Texas both as a soloist and collaborative pianist. He was the first-prize recipient at competitions including the International Keyboard Odyssiad in 2019, the UNT Concerto Competition in 2020, and the Isabel Scionti Piano Competition in 2021.

Dr. Liu performed in the Mozart 150th Memorial Concert Series at Shanghai Symphony Hall and performed in the Beethoven 250th Celebration Series Concerts at Murchison Performing Arts Center Winspear Performance Hall. His chamber group, “Fenway Quartet,” was the second-prize recipient of the 2017 Chamber Music Division of the 4th ENKOR International Music Competition. His solo and chamber music recordings were posted on the classical music Facebook channel “Le Salon de la Musique." Musicians he worked with include Caleb Hudson, Fedor Malykhin, Keith Packman, Kimberly Cole Luevano, Isaac Kim, Katie Lansdale, Lila Brown, Minju Lee, Nathaniel Taylor, Qi Wang, Rhonda Rider, and Zoltan Csikos. His principal teachers include Adam Wodnicki, Cheung-Yu Mo, Yi-Qiang Sun, Zhen-Yu Dong, and Ya-Fei Chuang, with whom he attended the prestigious Salzburg Mozarteum International Summer Music Festival with a scholarship in 2016. He has been leading the UNT Center Piano Trio since 2019 and is the founder of Temeraire Trio.

Dr. Liu holds a Doctorate Degree in Piano Performance from University of North Texas. He has been teaching at Texas Woman's University and the UNT College of Music since 2019. He instructs undergraduate students majoring in instrumental performance, jazz, music education, and music concentration.

Dr. Liu currently serves as a piano faculty member at Prime Music Institute.