mauricemori
☁︎ Chengdu, China
Hi! My name is Maurice “Mori” Liu (刘颂源) and I'm a classical guitarist. I'm 30 years old and I was born and raised in Fuzhou, China.
I started learning guitar in high school, mostly self-taught by attending various international guitar festivals throughout China during 2012-2015. In 2016, I briefly studied with Guillem Pérez-Quer, who helped shaping my style of playing greatly. In 2020, I graduated from New England Conservatory of Music with honors and completed my Master’s Degree and Graduate Diploma in guitar performance with Eliot Fisk, who is the last direct pupil of Andrés Segovia.
My passion for video game music led me to arranging them for guitar and I have been performing on my YouTube Channel since October, 2021. I have recorded over 200 original arrangements of music from acclaimed Japanese composers including Nobuo Uematsu, Masayoshi Soken, Koichi Sugiyama, Yasunori Nishiki, and many others. As of October 2025, my discography includes 23 full-length album and 3 EPs, featuring music from iconic video game series such as Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, Animal Crossing, Octopath Traveler, and some of my own compositions.
I started learning guitar in high school, mostly self-taught by attending various international guitar festivals throughout China during 2012-2015. In 2016, I briefly studied with Guillem Pérez-Quer, who helped shaping my style of playing greatly. In 2020, I graduated from New England Conservatory of Music with honors and completed my Master’s Degree and Graduate Diploma in guitar performance with Eliot Fisk, who is the last direct pupil of Andrés Segovia.
My passion for video game music led me to arranging them for guitar and I have been performing on my YouTube Channel since October, 2021. I have recorded over 200 original arrangements of music from acclaimed Japanese composers including Nobuo Uematsu, Masayoshi Soken, Koichi Sugiyama, Yasunori Nishiki, and many others. As of October 2025, my discography includes 23 full-length album and 3 EPs, featuring music from iconic video game series such as Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, Animal Crossing, Octopath Traveler, and some of my own compositions.
In August 2025, I joined Resonera Studio as a VGM session musician.
Other than playing guitar, I also enjoy playing video games (mostly story driven RPGs), working out, reading fiction, and graphic desgin.
NOTICE:
As a direct response to the increasing AI contents on the internet, I'm no longer publishing polished "studio recordings". Starting August 2025, all of my published albums will be containing audio from my finished live performance videos, which will contain more unwanted sound artifacts (e.g. knuckle cracking and breathing sounds) and live performance imperfections (e.g. unstable tempo and tonal quality fluctuations). This will also save me a lot of time so I can put more effort into new arrangements.
Other than playing guitar, I also enjoy playing video games (mostly story driven RPGs), working out, reading fiction, and graphic desgin.
NOTICE:
As a direct response to the increasing AI contents on the internet, I'm no longer publishing polished "studio recordings". Starting August 2025, all of my published albums will be containing audio from my finished live performance videos, which will contain more unwanted sound artifacts (e.g. knuckle cracking and breathing sounds) and live performance imperfections (e.g. unstable tempo and tonal quality fluctuations). This will also save me a lot of time so I can put more effort into new arrangements.
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It's a real pleasure to speak in support of the marvelous Maurice Liu, an extraordinary young man whose life and work in music make him a true citizen of the world and a cross cultural phenomenon.”