L
ü
Jia is the Music Director and Chief Conductor of the China NCPA Orchestra as well as Music Director and
Chief Conductor of the Macao Orchestra. In the past, he has served as Music Director
of Verona Opera in Italy, and Artistic Director of the Santa Cruz De Tenerife
Symphony Orchestra in Spain.
L
ü
Jia has conducted nearly 2000 orchestral concerts and opera performances in
Europe and the United States. He has worked with such renowned opera houses and
symphony orchestras as: La Scala, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Royal Concertgebouw
Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra Munich
Philharmonic, Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra dell' Accademia di Santa
Cecilia, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic,
Lyon National Orchestra, and many others.
A highly acclaimed opera conductor, L
ü has led over fifty productions so far
internationally.
As the first Asian conductor appointed as Music Director in an
important opera house in Italy, he has been praised by critics as "a conductor who has
a deeper understanding of Italian operas than the Italians themselves do." In 1989,
he
was awarded both the First Prize and Jury's Prize at the Antonio Pedeotti International
Conducting Competition in Trento, Italy.
In 2007, the Italian President bestowed the
"President's Prize" on L
ü f
or his exceptional contribution to Italian culture. That same
year, the production of La gazza ladra that he conducted at the Rossini Opera Festival,
held in Pesaro, the composer's hometown, was voted "Opera Production of the Year"
in Europe.
