Siqing Lu

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Siqing Lü (born 1969 in Qingdao, China) is a Chinese violinist. He began studying the violin at the age of four, and at age eight, he was accepted at the Central Conservatory of Music and became the youngest person to study there. When he was 11, Lü was selected by Yehudi Menuhin to study at the Yehudi Menuhin School in Surrey, England. After returning to China in 1985, he appeared as a member of several major Chinese orchestras, and made guest appearances on Chinese television programmes, including the Chinese New Year Show watched by over one billion people. In 1994, he performed at the Beijing Concert Hall in front of the President of the Republic of China. He currently holds the post of Director of the Violin Department at Naxos International, the CD company which records and distributes his music. Lü has received recognition as a professional violinist. In 1987, he won the first prize of the Paganini Competition; and in 1999, he was the winner of the Web Concert Hall International Competition.^[1] He was presented with a Stradivarius violin after a performance of Antonio Vivaldi's Four Seasons which was watched by hundreds of millions of people. ^[2] Lu currently lives in Edgewater, New Jersey.