Lü Jia (conductor)

Lü Jia (Chinese: 吕嘉; pinyin: Lǚ Jiā; born 1964 in Shanghai) is a Chinese-born Italian conductor. In 1991, when he was only 26, he was appointed as the Music Director of the Teatro Lirico Giuseppe Verdi[1] and from 1991 to 1995 he was also principal conductor.[1] In 1999, he became the principal conductor and director of the Norrköping Symphony Orchestra (until 2005).[2] In 2007 he conducted "La gazza ladra" by Gioachino Rossini at Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro and it was released as a DVD from Dynamic.[3] In 2008, he became music director of the Macao Orchestra.[4][5] He is currently the chief conductor of the China National Center for the Performing Arts Orchestra.[6]

References

  1. Cummings, D.M. (2000). International Who's who in Music and Musicians' Directory: (in the Classical and Light Classical Fields). International Who's Who in Classical Music. International Biographical Centre. p. 398. ISBN 978-0-948875-53-3. Retrieved 12 April 2022.
  2. "Jia Lü- Bio, Albums, Pictures – Naxos Classical Music". Classical Music – Streaming Classical Music. 1 October 2020. Retrieved 12 April 2022.
  3. La gazza ladra (in Italian), Dynamic, 2013, OCLC 856427685
  4. "Macao Orchestra's Principal Conductor, Lu Jia, conducts My Fatherland in the concert "Great Symphonic Poems" – Cultural Affairs Bureau". Welcome. 29 January 2018. Retrieved 12 April 2022.
  5. "Music Director Macao Orchestra". icm.gov.mo. 16 February 2016. Archived from the original on 16 February 2016. Retrieved 12 April 2022.
  6. "吕嘉". www.chncpa.org. Retrieved 12 December 2021.


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