Prof. Wei LU
Concertmaster, Deutsches Symphony Orchester Berlin

Wei LU, Concertmaster of the Deutsches Symphony Orchester Berlin, is the first violinist to join the Anne-Sophie Mutter Foundation.

Wei LU began learning the violin with his father at the age of three. A 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 world-famous masters such as Isaac Stern, Ruggiero Ricci, Itzhak Perlman, Salvatore Accardo, Igor Oistrakh, Ida Handel, UtoUgi, Henry Meyer, and Yuri Bashmet.

In 1997, after attending his playing in Beijing, Anne-Sophie Mutter immediately decided to invite Wei LU for further studies sponsored by her foundation. During his time for scholarship, he studied with Prof. Franco Gulli in Indiana Bloomington, the United States, Prof. Herman Krebbers in Amsterdam, Holland, and Prof. Ingolf Turban at the Stuttgart Conservatory of Music.

Wei LU has held concerts and recitals in North and South America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. He performed as a soloist with many world-class orchestras, such 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 one of the few violinists in the world who has performed as a soloist at all of the main concert halls, such as Carnegie Hall, Musikverein Wien, Philharmonie Berlin, and Sydney Opera House.

Wei LU is the only Chinese violinist to be invited as Guest Concertmaster of the Berliner Philharmonic. Also, he worked with many world-class orchestras and opera houses, such as the 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 has started to give masterclasses for solo and chamber music at music camps such as the Great Wall International Music Camp in Beijing. From 2011, he played as chamber music partner and Concertmaster of "Mutter's Virtuosi" with Anne Sophie Mutter touring all around the world, including New York, Wien, Lucern, Munich, Chicago, Washington DC, Toronto, Buenos Aires, Bogota, Beijing, and Shanghai.

Special thanks to Mr. Bai Peng for sponsoring the Italian violin "Joseph Rocca" 1843.