“Der Dirigent Shao-Chia Lü ist ein Meister der Zwischentöne.” （The conductor Shao-Chia Lü is a master of nuances） ─ Süddeutsche Zeitung

“…Um so lauter der Jubel über die grandiose musikalische Einstudierung der‚ Jenufa’ unter Shao-Chia Lü” （… the outstanding interpretation of the ‘Jenufa’ under Shao-Chia Lü received thunderous applause from the audience）  ─  Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

“In his mere 7 years at the helm, music director Shao-Chia Lü has brought the NSO to world-class status. The sound alone is a marvel—beauteous, richly rounded, perfectly balanced, at times of staggering power yet never forced or brash, the latter a quality found only to the world’s very greatest orchestras.”  ─  der neue Merker

Taiwan-born conductor Shao-Chia Lü studied music in Taipei, later at the Indiana University in Bloomington, USA, and also at the College of Music Vienna. His training was topped off with three important first prizes at renowned international conductor competitions: Besancon (France), Pedrotti (Italy) and Kondrashin (the Netherlands).

Shao-Chia Lü took the position of General Music Director of the Koblenz Theatre (1998-2001), the Staatsorchester Rheinische Philharmonie Koblenz (1998-2004), and the Staatsoper Hannover between (2001- 2006).

Shao-Chia Lü appears regularly as guest-conductor at several world renowned opera houses, including the Opera Australian in Sydney and Melbourne, the English National Opera, the Theatre de la Monnaie in Brussels, Den Norske Opera in Oslo, the Gothenburg Opera, the Oper Frankfurt, Staatsoper Hamburg and Stuttgart, the Deutsche Oper and Komische Oper Berlin.

Alongside his opera activities, Lü is equally at home on concert podiums. Lü has worked repeatedly with many leading European orchestras, such as the Oslo Philharmonic, the Orchestra Sinfonica di Santa Cecilia Rome, the Norwegian and Swedish Radio Orchestra, the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, the Orchestre National de France, the SWR Stuttgart, the Rundfunksinfonieorchster Berlin, the Goteborg Sinfoniker, the Staatskapelle Weimar, the Frankfurter Museumsorchester and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam. In Asia, Lu has worked with Hong Kong, NHK, New Japan Philharmonic, Seoul Philharmonic, KBS Symphony and leading orchestras in China.

Shao-Chia Lü was Music Director of the Taiwan Philharmonic (the National Symphony Orchestra of Taiwan) from 2010 till 2020 and the Principal Conductor of the South Denmark Philharmonic from 2014-2017. Currently, Meastro Lü is the honourary conductor of Taiwan Philharmonic.