One of the most prominent and influential Chinese violinists today, Siqing Lu performs regularly with major international and Chinese orchestras, in recitals and with the China Trio which he founded in 2011. As the first Asian violinist to win the prestigious International Paganini Violin Competition, Siqing has performed to acclaim in many of the world’s most prestigious concert halls worldwide, including the Musikverein in Vienna, Avery Fisher Hall and Alice Tully Hall in New York City, Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, Southam Hall at National Arts Centre in Ottawa, Maison Symphonique and Place des Arts in Montreal, Barbican Centre, Royal Opera House and Wigmore Hall in London, Theatre Des Champs Elysees and Louis XIV Opera House at Palace of Versailles in Paris, the Great Hall in Moscow, Suntory Hall，Tokyo Opera City Concert Hall in Tokyo, Hamer Hall at the Arts Centre in Melbourne, Sydney Opera House, the Esplanade in Singapore, Emirates Palace in Abu Dhabi and the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing among others.

In 2019, as the first soloist in residence of Melbourne Symphony Orchestra (MSO), Siqing Lu would perform the Season Opening Gala of MSO. Besides, Siqing Lu would take a worldwide recital tour of more than 30 cities. In addition, Siqing was also invite as guest soloist on tour with the NCPA Orchestra at the Abu Dhabi Music Festival, the Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra at the Bangkok International Dance and Music Festival, the China National Symphony Orchestra at the Sydney Opera House, as well as the Qingdao Symphony Orchestra on their historic first ever South America tour.

Siqing appears regularly at many of the top music festivals and prestigious music events around the world. He is the Artistic Director of the National Centre for the Performing Arts May Festival in Beijing, and is on the Jury of several prestigious international competitions such as the Menuhin Competition and the Shanghai Isaac Stern International Violin Competition. In fall of 2016, he founded the Siqing Lu Shenzhen Futian International String Festival, of which he is the Artistic Director.

Siqing Lu has released more than 20 CDs and video recordings for Philips, Naxos, Marco Polo, and BIS. His five recordings of the Butterfly Lovers violin concerto, the most famous work among the Chinese violin repertoire, has sold millions of copies worldwide. His interpretation of this piece is widely considered the best and he has thrilled audiences in more than 20 countries worldwide performing this violin concerto. His latest recording of the Mendelssohn and Bruch violin concertos as well as TAN Dun's violin concerto Out of Beijing Opera with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra was released worldwide by Australia’s ABC Classics to acclaim in March 2018.

Over the past decades, Siqing Lu has received numerous honours worldwide for his outstanding artistic achievement and social contributions, including Honourary Certificate from the United States House of Representatives, New Jersey Outstanding Achievement in Arts Award for Asian, California Senate Honourary Certificate, Honourary Certificate from the California Executive Committee of the House on multiple occasions, the Montblanc Outstanding Artist Award, China Youth Magazine's “The 100 Most Influential Young People of the 21^st Century in China” award. On September 16^th of 2006, the City of Millbrae, California passed a legislation to have the date proclaimed as “Siqing Lu Day” in honour of Siqing’s achievements.

Siqing Lu was born in 1969 in Qingdao, China. He began to study violin at the age of four. As an eight-year-old child, he became the youngest student ever to be admitted by the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing as a special talented student and studied with Prof. WANG Zhenshan. At the age of eleven, the late Lord Yehudi Menuhin chose Siqing to study at his school in London. In 1984, he returned to China for advanced studies at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing. Five years later, he went to the Juilliard School and studied with Dorothy DeLay and Hyo Kang.

Siqing Lu plays the “Miss Crespi” 1699 Stradivari violin, generously loaned to him by Chinese-Australian arts philanthropist Mr. David Li.

The well-known Russian-American pianist Misha Namirovsky is known as a “virtuoso” (by Norderstedter newpaper, Hamburg, Germany) and “lyricist on piano” (by Die Rheipfalz music magazine, Frankfurt). His musical attainments represent a culmination of the Russian Piano School’s virtuosity. He is artistic heir of Heinrich Neuhaus and, thanks to his rich educational background, he also possesses the meticulous essence of the Austro-German Piano School.

The international reputation of Dr. Namirovsky is based on his achievements in several international piano competitions. In 2014, he was awarded the prestigious “German Pianist Prize” in Frankfurt. He has also won top prizes at the Koscuiszco Foundation Chopin Competition in New York, the Cantu competition in Italy, the Louisiana International Piano Competition in the US, the Cincinnati World Piano Competition, the William Kapell International Piano Competition in Washington, DC, the Sendai International Piano Competition in Japan, and the Andorra Piano Competition in Spain. After a sensational tour in Paris in 2014, he was awarded the title of the “most outstanding musician of the year” in France. He has given performances at top concert halls and music festivals around the world, such as Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Centre, the Alte Oper in Frankfurt, the Great Hall of Moscow Conservatory, the Shanghai Symphony hall, the Minato Mirai Hall in Yokohama, Salle Cortot in Paris, Jordan Hall in Boston, the Munich Concert Hall, the Miami Concert Hall, the Tel Aviv-Yafo Concert Hall, and the Tokyo Concert Hall. As a veteran piano teacher, he is an Associate Professor of Piano at the Central Conservatory of Music. Before coming to China, he taught at the New England Conservatory in Boston, the Yale School of Music, Hochschule für Musik und Theater München, the Manhattan School of Music in New York, and the Louisiana State University (LSU) School of Music. Prof. Hung-Kuan Chen, the doctoral supervisor of Namirovsky, commented: “He is a serious musician, an excellent pianist, and a young man with a promising future in music performance. His broad cultural and educational background is undoubtedly his assets. Meanwhile, he is a wonderful piano teacher with marvelous energy and awareness.”

At the age of five, Namirovsky was chosen by Lyudmila, a famous teacher of the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory, to learn to play the piano with her, which made him deeply influenced by the Russian piano tradition. At the age of six, he performed piano concertos by Haydn in public at the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory; at the age of 11, he performed Chopin’s Piano Concerto No.1 with the Moscow Symphony Orchestra. Afterwards, he immigrated to Israel with his parents, where he studied under Israeli piano virtuoso Sophia Poliak. At the age of 15, he was invited to the US by the Juilliard Pre-College, then he was accepted by the Manhattan School of Music on a full scholarship to study under Solomon Mikowsky. At the age of 22, he was awarded the “Outstanding Young Artist Fellowship” by the Federal Government of the US. After completing a Bachelor’s degree in piano performance at the Manhattan School of Music, Namirovsky studied at Indiana University Jacobs School of Music for a Master’s degree, where he was awarded a scholarship by the Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD) of German Government. Then he studied for five years at the Munich Musikhochschule under legendary Russian pianist Eliso Verssaladze and received the “highest performer diploma”. While he was retained by the Munich Musikhochschule as a teaching assistant of Verssaladze, Namirovsky entered the Yale School of Music on a full scholarship to pursue a Master’s degree in performance with Prof. Boris Berman. Then he completed his Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) degree at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston under Prof. Hung-Kuan Chen, where he became a leading authority on the piano works of modern British composer Frank Bridge. His recordings of the composer’s works have won several international awards.