conductor
Yu Lu
Yu Lu began to show his extraordinary talent in music at a very young age by learning to play the violin and the piano. He was admitted to the affiliated middle school of the China Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing at the age of 15 and enrolled at the conservatory with the top score in the admission exam at 18. Upon receiving his bachelor degree with the highest score in history, Yu Lu was waived admission exams to continue his study as a masters student.
At the age of 19, Yu Lu won a contest held by Seiji Ozawa and became his student and assistant conductor. In the same year, after a performance with Seiji Ozawa’s Music Academy Orchestra in the Kyoto Concert Hall, he was praised by Japan’s most pre-eminent music magazine Ongaku no Tomo as a role model for young conductors. Yu Lu received continuous positive feedback from the Japanese audience by conducting Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, his first opera.
When he was 22, Yu Lu was selected and invited by Mariss Jansons to participate in the Concertgebouw Orchestra’s Ammodo Conducting Masterclass.
Yu Lu performed and recorded with ensembles worldwide, including Camerata RCO with members of the Concertgebouw Orchestra, and is often invited to conduct China's leading professional orchestras. At the end of 2020, on the occasion of Beethoven’s 250th birthday, Yu Lu initiated a challenge of performing Beethoven’s 9 symphonies in 5 consecutive days.
In 2022, the Shanghai Opera House appointed Yu Lu as its first ever principal guest conductor.
Yu Lu began to show his extraordinary talent in music at a very young age by learning to play the violin and the piano. He was admitted to the affiliated middle school of the China Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing at the age of 15 and enrolled at the conservatory with the top score in the admission exam at 18. Upon receiving his bachelor degree with the highest score in history, Yu Lu was waived admission exams to continue his study as a masters student.
At the age of 19, Yu Lu won a contest held by Seiji Ozawa and became his student and assistant conductor. In the same year, after a performance with Seiji Ozawa’s Music Academy Orchestra in the Kyoto Concert Hall, he was praised by Japan’s most pre-eminent music magazine Ongaku no Tomo as a role model for young conductors. Yu Lu received continuous positive feedback from the Japanese audience by conducting Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, his first opera.
When he was 22, Yu Lu was selected and invited by Mariss Jansons to participate in the Concertgebouw Orchestra’s Ammodo Conducting Masterclass.
Yu Lu performed and recorded with ensembles worldwide, including Camerata RCO with members of the Concertgebouw Orchestra, and is often invited to conduct China's leading professional orchestras. At the end of 2020, on the occasion of Beethoven’s 250th birthday, Yu Lu initiated a challenge of performing Beethoven’s 9 symphonies in 5 consecutive days.
In 2022, the Shanghai Opera House appointed Yu Lu as its first ever principal guest conductor.
Yu Lu began to show his extraordinary talent in music at a very young age by learning to play the violin and the piano. He was admitted to the affiliated middle school of the China Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing at the age of 15 and enrolled at the conservatory with the top score in the admission exam at 18. Upon receiving his bachelor degree with the highest score in history, Yu Lu was waived admission exams to continue his study as a masters student.
At the age of 19, Yu Lu won a contest held by Seiji Ozawa and became his student and assistant conductor. In the same year, after a performance with Seiji Ozawa’s Music Academy Orchestra in the Kyoto Concert Hall, he was praised by Japan’s most pre-eminent music magazine Ongaku no Tomo as a role model for young conductors. Yu Lu received continuous positive feedback from the Japanese audience by conducting Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, his first opera.
When he was 22, Yu Lu was selected and invited by Mariss Jansons to participate in the Concertgebouw Orchestra’s Ammodo Conducting Masterclass.
Yu Lu performed and recorded with ensembles worldwide, including Camerata RCO with members of the Concertgebouw Orchestra, and is often invited to conduct China's leading professional orchestras. At the end of 2020, on the occasion of Beethoven’s 250th birthday, Yu Lu initiated a challenge of performing Beethoven’s 9 symphonies in 5 consecutive days.
In 2022, the Shanghai Opera House appointed Yu Lu as its first ever principal guest conductor.