At the age of 17, he won fourth prize in the International Fryderyk Chopin Competition in Warsaw (2015), becoming one of the youngest laureates in the history of the competition, and three years later he triumphed in the Leeds Competition. The following year, he signed an exclusive contract with Warner Classics and also received an Avery Fisher Career Grant.

This past season, he has made his debut with the Chicago Symphony (cond. Riccardo Muti), London Symphony (cond. Marin Alsop) and Boston Symphony (cond. Earl Lee), and has also given recitals at the Cologne Philharmonie, Queen Elizabeth Hall and Wigmore Hall in London, Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg and Seoul Arts Centre. As part of the BBC New Generation Artists programme, he has performed with Johan Dalen and Benjamin Apple. In recent years, he has performed at such venues as the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, BOZAR in Brussels, 92nd St Y in New York, philharmonic halls of St Petersburg and Luxembourg, Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris, Warsaw Philharmonic and Sala São Paulo.

He has performed with many ensembles, including the Los Angeles Philharmonic (a performance at the Hollywood Bowl), Shanghai Symphony (at the BBC Proms), Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Seattle Symphony, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of Stockholm, Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, Singapore Symphony Orchestra and Orchestre National de Lille, under the baton of such conductors as Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, Ryan Bancroft, Vasily Petrenko, Edward Gardner, Sir Mark Elder, Thomas Dausgaard, Ruth Reinhardt, Martin Fröst and Long Yu. He has appeared at ‘Chopin and his Europe’ several times.

2015 brought the release of his debut album: a double CD of his recitals in the Chopin Competition in Warsaw, released by the Fryderyk Chopin Institute. In 2020 Warner Classics released Lu’s solo album featuring Chopin’s preludes and Schumann’s Geistervariationen, which was BBC Music magazine’s Instrumental Record of the Month. Two years earlier, Warner released recordings of his performances during the Leeds Competition (with the Hallé and Edward Gardner). Last year brought his latest album with Schubert’s Sonatas D. 959 and D. 784. Born in Massachusetts, in 1997, he is a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, where he studied with Robert McDonald and Jonathan Biss.

He was also a pupil of Dang Thai Son, and his principal mentors have included Mitsuko Uchida and Imogen Cooper.

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