魔弓传奇III“永恒的梁祝”——吕思清小提琴独奏音乐会

吕思清，国际知名小提琴家，青岛耶胡迪·梅纽因学校校长。作为第一位夺得国际小提琴艺术最高奖之一——意大利帕格尼尼国际小提琴大赛金奖的东方人，吕思清无疑是当今乐坛最活跃的杰出中国小提琴家。他那美妙绝伦、激动人心的琴声早已遍布维也纳金色大厅、美国纽约林肯艺术中心、洛杉矶好来坞碗型剧场、加拿大多伦多福特中心、渥太华国家艺术中心、蒙特利尔艺术广场、英国伦敦皇家歌剧院、威格莫尔音乐厅、法国巴黎香榭丽舍大剧院、凡尔赛宫路易十四歌剧院、瑞士日内瓦维多利亚音乐厅、俄罗斯莫斯科音乐大会堂、克林姆林宫、澳大利亚墨尔本艺术中心、日本东京三得利音乐厅、韩国首尔艺术中心、新加坡滨海艺术中心、中国国家大剧院、香港文化中心、台北音乐厅等世界著名的演出场所。吕思清以他激情洋溢的演奏以及无可比拟的音乐魅力赢得了全球超过四十多个国家及地区的观众，被国际媒体盛赞为“一位杰出的天才小提琴家”。

吕思清曾与众多世界及中国优秀指挥家合作过，如洛林•马泽尔、瓦列里•捷吉耶夫、艾度•迪华特、弗拉基米尔•阿什肯纳齐、劳伦斯•福斯特、梵志登、奥斯莫•万斯卡、余隆、谭盾等。他也曾与诸多国际知名乐团多次合作，其中包括英国皇家爱乐乐团、英国爱乐乐团、哈雷管弦乐团、西班牙毕尔巴鄂交响乐团、瑞士伯尔尼交响乐团、挪威斯塔凡格交响乐团、巴黎室内交响乐团、萨尔茨堡室内乐团、纽伦堡交响乐团、阿斯彭节日乐团、辛辛那提室内乐团、好来坞碗型剧场乐团、华盛顿交响乐团、多伦多室内乐团、温哥华交响乐团、马林斯基剧院交响乐团、俄罗斯国家交响乐团、俄罗斯爱乐乐团、悉尼交响乐团、墨尔本交响乐团、日本读卖新闻交响乐团、九州交响乐团、香港管弦乐团、中国国家大剧院管弦乐团、中国爱乐乐团、中国交响乐团，上海交响乐团等。

吕思清在频繁参加世界各地音乐节演出活动的同时，还连续多年担任中国国家大剧院“五月音乐节”的艺术总监，这一音乐节现已成为国际知名的室内乐音乐节。吕思清也曾受邀担任耶胡迪·梅纽因国际青少年小提琴比赛、上海斯特恩国际小提琴比赛等国际音乐大赛的评委。吕思清还创办了“吕思清·深圳福田国际弦乐艺术周”，每届艺术周都邀请数位国际知名弦乐演奏家和教育家参与，共同打造高规格的音乐节品牌。

吕思清与包括飞利浦Philips、拿索斯Naxos、马可波罗Marco Polo、瑞典BIS、及澳大利亚广播公司ABC在内的世界知名唱片公司合作出版过多张个人专辑。他使用六把斯特拉迪瓦里、瓜奈里、阿玛蒂意大利名琴演奏并与多伦多室内乐团合作录制的“维瓦尔第《四季》名琴版”，被权威乐评家赞誉为“演绎与录音均属A+天碟级，是可遇不可求的无敌制作”。他还曾录制过五版《梁祝》小提琴协奏曲，其发行量数以百万，并被喻为当今最佳版本。吕氏的专辑“梦幻曲－吕思清浪漫小提琴曲集”1997年在香港发行后，即被台湾《音乐时代》《中国时报》评为每月最佳唱片、“音响论坛”年度最佳100张唱片。吕思清的演奏经常在包括美国纽约WQXR音乐台、芝加哥WFMT音乐台、波士顿WBGH电台、加拿大CBC电台、德国WDR音乐台、瑞士伯尔尼电台、日本NTV电视台、中国中央电视台、香港凤凰卫视、亚洲电视、第四电台等全球众多电视台和电台中播出。

因其杰出的艺术成就和广泛的社会影响，吕思清还获得过众多的社会荣誉，包括美国国会众议院荣誉证书、美国新泽西州“杰出亚裔艺术成就奖”、美国加州参议院荣誉证书、四次获得美国加州众议院执委会荣誉证书、万宝龙卓越艺术大奖、《中国青年》杂志“影响21世纪中国的100个青年人物”之一、《北京青年报》形象大使等。美国加州Millbrae市将2006年9月16日定为“吕思清日”。

吕思清1969年出生于中国山东省青岛市。他4岁开始学习小提琴，8岁被中央音乐学院附小破格录取，成为这所著名学府有史以来最为年轻的学生，师从王振山教授。吕思清11岁被世界著名小提琴家耶胡迪·梅纽因选到英国他创办的天才音乐学校学习，19岁赴纽约朱丽亚音乐学院深造，师从世界著名小提琴教育家德罗希·迪蕾女士及姜孝先生。吕思清除获得帕格尼尼金奖外，还曾赢得过北京、英国及美国等多个重要国际比赛大奖。

吕思清现使用由墨尔本交响乐团主席、艺术赞助人李大伟先生（Mr David Li AM)  慷慨提供的意大利制琴大师G .B 瓜达尼尼于1777年都灵制作的小提琴。

Lu Siqing Biography

Siqing Lu is one of the foremost and influential Chinese violinists today. As the first Asian violinist to win the esteemed International Paganini Violin Competition, Mr. Lu performs regularly worldwide with major orchestras and leading conductors, and regularly gives recitals and appears with the China Trio which he founded in 2011 on the world’s great concert stages and at the most prestigious festivals.

Highlights of recent years including being honored as Artistic Ambassador of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, as well as being appointed the first Chinese soloist-in-residence of MSO for the 2019-2020 season. Performances as guest soloist with the NCPA Orchestra at the Abu Dhabi Music Festival, the Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra at the Bangkok International Dance and Music Festival, the China National Symphony Orchestra at the Sydney Opera House, as well as the Qingdao Symphony Orchestra on their first ever South American tour. In addition, Mr. Lu’s acclaimed recital series, The Legend of Magic Bow: Siqing Lu Violin Recital, has taken him to over a hundred cities throughout China and around the world.

Mr. Lu is the Artistic Director of the National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA) May Festival in Beijing, and the founder/Artistic Director of the Siqing Lu Shenzhen Futian International String Festival. Mr. Lu also serves regularly on the jury of international competitions such as the Yehudi Menuhin International Violin Competition and the Shanghai Isaac Stern International Violin Competition.

Mr. Lu has more than a dozen concerto and solo CDs to his name, for labels such as Philips, Naxos, Marco Polo, BIS and NCPA Classics. His five recordings of “The Butterfly Lovers” Violin Concerto, has sold millions of copies worldwide. His 2018 recording of “Beauty of the Violin”, consists of the Mendelssohn, Bruch and Tan Dun's Violin Concertos with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra was released globally by Australia’s ABC Classics to critical acclaim, and soon became the Number One CD album on the Australia’s top 20 classical music album chart.

Appearances regularly with orchestra such as the Philharmonia Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Salzburg Chamber Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, Vancouver Symphony, Yomiuri Nippon Symphony, Hong Kong Philharmonic, the NCPA Orchestra and China Philharmonic Orchestra. Mr. Lu has received numerous honors for his outstanding artistic achievements and social contributions, including New Jersey’s Outstanding Achievement in Arts Award for Asian, California Senate Honorary Certificate, the Montblanc Outstanding Artist Award. The City of Millbrae, California passed a legislation to have September 16th of 2006 proclaimed “Siqing Lu Day” in honor of him.

Mr. Lu was born in 1969 in Qingdao, China. He began studying the violin at the age of four. Mr. Lu became the youngest student ever to be admitted by the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing at the age of eight as a special student and studied with Professor Zhenshan Wang. At the age of eleven, Lord Yehudi Menuhin hand-picked him to study at his school (The Yehudi Menuhin School) in London. In 1984, he returned to China for advanced studies at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing. Five years later, he became a scholarship student at the Juilliard School and studied with Ms. Dorothy DeLay and Mr. Hyo Kang. In 2021, Mr. Lu became the President of the Yehudi Menuhin School Qingdao, a sister school to the Yehudi Menuhin School in the UK.  

Mr. Lu performs on the Italian luthier G.B. Guadagnini, Turin, 1777 violin, generously provided by arts patron Mr. David Li AM, Chairman of Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.