Lü Jia

Lü Jia (Chinese: 吕嘉; pinyin: Lǚ Jiā; born 1964 in Shanghai) is an Italian conductor. In 1991, when he was only 26, he was appointed as the Music Director of the Trieste Opera. From 1991 to 1995 he was principal Conductor at the Teatro Verdi in Trieste. In 1999 he became the principal Conductor of the Norrköping Symphonic". He was director of the Norrköping Symphony Orchestra 1999-2005, and now the Macao Orchestra since 2008.

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. In 2008, he became music director of the Macao Orchestra. [1] He is currently the chief conductor of the China National Center for the Performing Arts Orchestra.