Prof. Wei LU
Concertmaster, Deutsches Symphony Orchester Berlin

Wei LU, Concertmaster of Deutsches Symphony Orchester Berlin, the first violinist who joins the Anne-Sophie Mutter Foundation. Professor in China Xinghai Consevatory of Music. 

Wei LU began learning the violin with his father at the age of three, few years later he entered the Primary-middle school attached to the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing and studied with Prof. WANG Zhilong and LIN Yaoji. 

Wei LU has been coached and praised by such world-famous masters as Isaac Stern, Ruggiero Ricci, Itzhak Perlman, Salvatore Accardo, Igor Oistrakh, Ida Handel, Uto Ugi, Henry Meyer, Yuri Bashmet. In 1997, after attending his playing in Beijing, Anne-Sophie Mutter decided immediately to invite Wei LU for further studies sponsored by her foundation. During the time for scholarship, he studied with Prof. Franco Gulli in Indiana Bloominton, the United States, and Prof. Herman Krebbers in Amsterdam, Holland, and Prof. Ingolf Turban in Stuttgart conservatory of Music. 

Wei LU has held concerts and recitals in North and South American, Europe, Australia and Asia, performed as soloist with many world class orchestras as Deutsches Symphonie Orchester Berlin, London Symphony Orchestra, Royal Scotland National Orchestra, Nuernberg Opera House, Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Singapore Symphony Orchestra, China National Symphony Orchestra and China Philharmonic. He is the one of few Violinist in the world who has performed as soloist in all of the main concert hall as Carnegie Hall, Musikverein Wien, Philharmonie Berlin and Sydney Opera House. 

Wei LU is the only Chinese violinist who has been invited as Guest Concertmaster of Berliner Philharmonic. Also, he worked with many world-class orchestra and opera house as London Symphony Orchestra, Gewandhaus Orchester Leipzig, Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal, Munich Opera House, Hamburg Opera House, Nuernberg Opera House, NDR Symphony Orchestra, Bamberg Symphony Orchestra and Asia Philharmonie. Since 2009 Wei LU starts to give master class for solo and Chamber music in the Great Wall International Music Camp in Beijing and other Music Camps. From 2011 he played as chamber music partner and Concertmaster of “Mutter’s Vituosi” with Anne Sophie Mutter touring all around the world including the cities as New York, Wien, Lucern, Munich, Chicago, Washington, D.C., Toronto, Buenos Aires, Bogota, Beijing and Shanghai. 

Special thanks to Mr. Bai Peng as sponsor for the Italian violin “Joseph Rocca” 1843.