Chia-Hui Lu
Quick Facts
Biography
Chia-Hui Lu (Chinese: 盧佳慧) is a Taiwanese classical pianist.
Lu is active in the cultural arts community in Taiwan. She is a director of the Egret Foundation, a non-profit organization that promotes Taiwan culture and arts. She is a faculty member of the National Taiwan University of Arts and the Affiliated Senior High School of National Taiwan Normal University. For her album Enchanted she transcribed Isaac Albeniz's Tango in D.
Performance experience
Lu is a classical pianist by training and have played many concerts around the world. In New York City, Lu has performed recitals at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall and Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center. In Europe, Lu performed at the Rome National Music Festival and Vasto Italy Festival. She also performed a recital in Barletta, Italy.
In Taiwan, Lu performed "An Evening of Fantasy" with the Taipei Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, "Care for Taiwan's Land Restoration Concert" - Robert Schumann's Concerto in A Minor with Philharmonia Moment Musical, "Sound Of Formosa" - the Piano Concerto premiere of Gordon Shi-Wen Chin with the National Symphony Orchestra, and "Evening of Dance" - Piano Recital, among others.
Awards
- 1987, First prize winner of the Taipei seventy-sixth solo piano music competition
- 1990, winner of the seventy-eighth Junior solo piano music competition at the Southern District of Taipei
- 1991, winner of the eightieth youth piano solo music competition in the Southern District of Taipei
- 2000, winner of the 28th Anniversary Artists International’s Young Artists Award
- 2003, winner of the 30th Anniversary Artists International’s Young Artists Outstanding Alumni Award