Violinist

At only age 26, violinist Wei Lu has already secured himself a successful career as an artist which is envious by many others. After three rounds of audition, Mr. Lu was appointed the concertmaster of the Deutsches Symphony-Orchester Berlin, (former Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra) in 2004, a position which the orchestra took 17 auditions to fill. It is also a position which makes him one of the youngest concertmasters around the world. Mr. Lu is also a frequent guest concertmaster and artist of world class orchestras such as the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, the Nurnberg Opera House, and the Asia Philharmonic, among others.

A native of Beijing, China, Mr. Lu began violin lessons with his father at the age of three. At age nine, he was accepted by the renowned violin pedagogue Professor Yao-Ji Lin to attend the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing. In 1997, after a performance heard by violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter, she personally invited Mr. Lu to become the first violinist who joins the Anne-Sophie Mutter Circle of Friends Foundation. With the support of the foundation, Mr. Lu had the opportunities to study with Professor Franco Gulli in Indiana (USA), Professor Herman Krebbers in Amsterdam (Holland), and Professor Ingolf Turban in Stuttgart (Germany). He has also been highly praised by artist such as Isaac Stern, Ruggiero Ricci, Itzhak Perlman, Salvatore Accardo, Igor Oistrakh, Ida Handel, Uto Ugi, Henry Meyer, and Yuri Bashmet, whom Mr. Lu has taken lessons with. Some of the awards Mr. Lu has won while studying include the third place at the Second Tchaikovsky International Competition for Young Musicians (1995), the first prize at the Fifth China National Violin Competition (1993), and three times at the Beijing Violin Competition.
Wei Lu has held concerts and recitals in USA, Germany, Italy, Austria, Poland, Switzerland, Spain, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Macao and China. He has soloed with the Phoenix Symphony Orchestra, the Savanna Symphony Orchestra, the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonie der Nationen (Achtung! Klassik by ZDF), the European Youth Orchestra, the SSO Symphony Orchestra (Sydney Opera House), the Sendai Symphony Orchestra, the Macao Chamber Orchestra the China National Symphony Orchestra, and the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra. As a special guest, Mr. Lu was invited to share the stage with Ruggiero Ricci for his 85th birthday, and he has also performed with Anne-Sophie Mutter during many of her tours.

Through a generous loan from a private collection in Singapore, Mr. Wei Lu plays on an Antonio Stradivarius violin dated 1680. He is an artist of the Asia Pacific Arts Management Ltd.