Biography

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Minzuo LU is born in Shanghai (China).  She started playing the piano and writing the Chinese Calligraphy at the age of four. During the study in high school, she began composition creation unter prof.Huang Lv and prof.Wei Zhang. After finishing her Bachelor composition degree in 2014 at  Shanghai conservatory of music (under the guidance of Professor Huang Lv), she went to Germany and completed her master's degree in instrumental composition under the guidance of prof.Xiaoyong Chen at the  Hochschule für Musik und theater Hamburg in 2017. From 2019, she furthered her studies (Konzertexem Komposition) at the Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe with prof. Wolfgang Rihm. 

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• In 2012, The Five Elements for string quartet was awarded the 2ed price of the 5th Canada Montreal Molinari String Quartet composition competition.

• In 2014, Piano trio Light though the window of the Prison was awarded the 4th Prize of the Barlow Endowment Music Composition at Brigham Young University.

• In 2014 , She was invited to first concert as a communicated-student Composer of San Francisco-Shanghai Chamber Music Festival, her work Recluse, Verve of Chinese Calligraphy for string trio was equally well received on the internet of San Francisco Conservatory of Music.

• In 2015 ,her work The day is declining was awarded the 1st Audience Price of 31st ALEA III Composition Competition in Boston,USA.

• In 2016, Her Orchestra work Nuance - Bunt was performed by Hamburg Hamburger symphony.

• In 2017, work Gegenseitig for Ensemble  was awarded 1st price of 13th SUN RIVER PRIZE Students’ New Music Composition Competition Chengdu, P.R. China.// on The Floating Flower (Die Blüte treibt auf dem Wasser) being chosen as a honorable mention in the 2017 FNMC Composition Competition.//As an artist member attended Non-piano,piano Weekend.

• In 2018, She has been chosen as a participant in the RED NOTE New Music Festival Composition Workshop. And she has been selected to participate in the Valencia International Performance Academy, taking place July 10 – 20 in Valencia, Spain. Her viola solo <Bahn> was awarded the 2nd Price of Classic Pure Vienna International Composition Competition

• In 2019, She took part in Big Multi Project Symphonie for 144 players in May in Elbtunnel St.Pauli.with her composition "LóngLóng".//The Five Elements for string quartet is selected the Honorary Mention of  Kazimierz Serocki 16th International Composers’ Competition 2019.// the 9th edition ofthe International Composition Competition “... a Camillo Togni”