Lü Jia
Lü Jia, currently Artistic Director of the National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA) in Beijing and Music Director of the China NCPA Orchestra, has served as Music Director of the Arena di Verona, Artistic Director of the Santa Cruz De Tenerife Symphony Orchestra, Music Director and Principal Conductor of the Macau Orchestra and the Trieste Opera.
Lü Jia has conducted over 2,000 symphonic concerts and opera performances across Europe, Asia and the United States. He has collaborated with renowned theaters and symphony orchestras, including Teatro alla Scala, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Munich Philharmonic, Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra Accademia di Santa Cecilia, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Lyon National Orchestra and many others.
Acclaimed opera director, Lü Jia has conducted over fifty productions internationally.
The first Asian conductor appointed music director at an Italian national opera house, he has been praised by critics as “a conductor who has a deeper understanding of Italian operas than the Italians themselves.”
In 1989 he he was awarded the First Prize and Jury Prize at the Antonio Pedrotti International Conducting Competition in Trento.
In 2007, the President of the Italian Republic awarded Lü Jia the “Premio del Presidente” for his outstanding contribution to Italian culture. In the same year, the production of “La gazza ladra” conducted by him at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, the composer’s hometown, was named “Opera Production of the Year” in Europe.
Lü Jia, currently Artistic Director of the National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA) in Beijing and Music Director of the China NCPA Orchestra, has served as Music Director of the Arena di Verona, Artistic Director of the Santa Cruz De Tenerife Symphony Orchestra, Music Director and Principal Conductor of the Macau Orchestra and the Trieste Opera.
Lü Jia has conducted over 2,000 symphonic concerts and opera performances across Europe, Asia and the United States. He has collaborated with renowned theaters and symphony orchestras, including Teatro alla Scala, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Munich Philharmonic, Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra Accademia di Santa Cecilia, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Lyon National Orchestra and many others.
Acclaimed opera director, Lü Jia has conducted over fifty productions internationally.
The first Asian conductor appointed music director at an Italian national opera house, he has been praised by critics as “a conductor who has a deeper understanding of Italian operas than the Italians themselves.”
In 1989 he he was awarded the First Prize and Jury Prize at the Antonio Pedrotti International Conducting Competition in Trento.
In 2007, the President of the Italian Republic awarded Lü Jia the “Premio del Presidente” for his outstanding contribution to Italian culture. In the same year, the production of “La gazza ladra” conducted by him at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, the composer’s hometown, was named “Opera Production of the Year” in Europe.