Lu Zhongkun

Zhongkun Lu, graduated from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music,where he was awarded the Professional Studies Diploma (PSD) and the Bachelor of Music (BM) degree in 2020. In his first year of undergraduate, he won the San Francisco Conservatory of Music Concerto Competition and performed “Der Schwanendreher” as a soloist with the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and the Berkeley Symphony Orchestra.

Since 2016, he has been the Principal Violist of San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra (SFSYO). In addition, he was invited to participate in the Pacific Music Festival (PMF) in 2017 and 2018 as an Academy member. In 2019, he won the Tutti Violist position of the Macao Orchestra which is under the Macao Cultural Bureau at his age of 22. Concurrently, he also won the Tutti Viola position of Suzhou Symphony Orchestra. Additionally, he was invited to perform with the Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra and the BerkeleySymphony Orchestra as a guest musician.

Zhongkun was born in Guangzhou, and he played viola in the Guangzhou Youth Symphony Orchestra before he got in college.