Siqing Lu is one of the foremost and influential Chinese violinists today. As the first Asian violinist to win the esteemed International Paganini Violin Competition, Mr. Lu performs regularly worldwide with major orchestras and leading conductors, and regularly gives recitals and appears with the China Trio which he founded in 2011 on the world’s great concert stages and at the most prestigious festivals.

Highlights of recent years including being honored as Artistic Ambassador of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, as well as being appointed the first Chinese soloist-in-residence of MSO for the 2019-2020 season. Performances as guest soloist 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 first ever South American tour. In addition, Mr. Lu’s acclaimed recital series, The Legend of Magic Bow: Siqing Lu Violin Recital, has taken him to over a hundred cities throughout China and around the world.

Mr. Lu is the Artistic Director of the National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA) May Festival in Beijing, and the founder/Artistic Director of the Siqing Lu Shenzhen Futian International String Festival. Mr. Lu also serves regularly on the jury of international competitions such as the Yehudi Menuhin International Violin Competition and the Shanghai Isaac Stern International Violin Competition.

Mr. Lu has more than a dozen concerto and solo CDs to his name, for labels such as Philips, Naxos, Marco Polo, BIS and NCPA Classics. His five recordings of “The Butterfly Lovers” Violin Concerto, has sold millions of copies worldwide. His 2018 recording of “Beauty of the Violin”, consists of the Mendelssohn, Bruch and TAN Dun's Violin Concertos with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra was released globally by Australia’s ABC Classics to critical acclaim, and soon became the Number One CD album on the Australia’s top 20 classical music album chart.

Appearances regularly with orchestra such as the Philharmonia Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Salzburg Chamber Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, Vancouver Symphony, Yomiuri Nippon Symphony, Hong Kong Philharmonic, the NCPA Orchestra and China Philharmonic Orchestra. Mr. Lu has received numerous honors for his outstanding artistic achievements and social contributions, including New Jersey’s Outstanding Achievement in Arts Award for Asian, California Senate Honorary Certificate, the Montblanc Outstanding Artist Award. The City of Millbrae, California passed a legislation to have September 16^th of 2006 proclaimed “Siqing Lu Day” in honor of him.

Mr. Lu was born in 1969 in Qingdao, China. He began studying the violin at the age of four. Mr. Lu became the youngest student ever to be admitted by the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing at the age of eight as a special student and studied with Professor WANG Zhenshan. At the age of eleven, Lord Yehudi Menuhin hand-picked him to study at his school (The Yehudi Menuhin School) in London. In 1984, he returned to China for advanced studies at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing. Five years later, he became a scholarship student at the Juilliard School and studied with Ms. Dorothy DeLay and Mr. Hyo Kang. In 2021, Mr. Lu became the President of the Yehudi Menuhin School Qingdao, a sister school to the Yehudi Menuhin School in the UK.

Mr. Lu performs on the Italian luthier G.B. Guadagnini, Turin, 1777 violin, generously provided by arts patron Mr. David Li AM, Chairman of Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.

LU Jingyi has been a winner of many international competitions, including the Gina Bachauer International Junior Piano Competition in the U.S. and the Paderewski International Piano Competition in Poland. She has been invited by CCTV to participate in numerous galas and concerts, including CCTV’s “Glorious Blooms” concerts, the 2014 CCTV New Year Concert, and the 23^rd Starlight Awards Ceremony for Chinese TV programs. She is often invited by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Culture and Tourism to take part in various cultural exchanges and foreign affairs activities, and has performed for the Chinese President and other state leaders for five times, such as the opening ceremony of the “Year of China-Russia Tourism” at Kremlin in Moscow in 2013 and the gala to celebrate the “70^th anniversary of the victory of the World Anti-Fascist War” in 2015.

LU has given performances in Asia, Europe, Oceania, North America and nearly 50 cities in China. She has collaborated with violinists Siqing Lu, NING Feng, XUE Wei, XIE Nan, HUANG Bin, QIAN Zhou, LIU Xiao, CHEN Xi, GAO Can, cellist Li-Wei Qin, and singers DAI Yuqiang, MO Hualun, HUANG Ying and WEI Song. Among them, she has worked with violinist Siqing Lu for more than 10 years for over 200 times. Currently, she is a pianist, associate professor in the Orchestra Instrumental Department of the Central Conservatory of Music (CCOM) and a supervisor of master students.

In 2009, LU graduated from the Piano Department of the CCOM with top grades under the tutelage of Professor WU Ying, obtaining a Master’s degree and staying on to teach at the university. She is passionate about music education and art popularization, and has participated in the outreach programmes of the NCPA May Festival for many years. She has been a jury member of the CCOM Standard Grade Examination Committee since 2010. She has also been a jury member of many important piano competitions, including the 2014 CCTV Piano and Violin Competition. In 2018, the NCPA Records released a series of recordings entitled Roam about the Classics for her and violinist Siqing Lu, featuring two classic violin and piano sonatas and several short pieces.