Holding his Bachelor and Master degrees from National Taipei University of Education and National Taiwan University of Arts, flutist Cheng-Yu Lu has earned his doctoral degree in flute performance at Michigan State University with full scholarship. His teachers include Chung-Ren Yeh, I-Mei Chang, Anders Norell, Yi-Hui Lin, Jennie Tzu-Ying Lin, and Richard Sherman.

 

As a prize-winning musician of many competitions, such as 1st prize at SEMFA Ervin Monroe Young Artist Competition, Mr. Lu has attended many music festivals and camps and played for András Adorján, Robert Aitken, Petri Alanko, Yossi Arheim, János Bálint, William Bennett, James Galway, Karl Kraber, Emmanuel Pahud, Amy Porter, Carol Wincenc, and Trevor Wye. 

 

Mr. Lu often gives recitals and gets involved in chamber music and orchestral concerts and has performed in Asia, Europe and the Americas as a flute, piccolo, baroque flute, and recorder player. He has performed a variety of major concertos as a soloist with orchestras, such as Piccolo Concerto in C major, RV 443 and Concerto "La Notte," RV 439 by Vivaldi, Concerto in D major, Op. 283 by Reinecke, Concerto for flute and harp, K. 299 by Mozart, Concerto for flute and orchestra by Ibert, and Divertimento for flute and winds by Alfred Reed.