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Long Yu is one of the most distinguished Chinese conductors with an established international reputation. As a guest conductor, Mr. Yu regularly appears with orchestras in Germany, France, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Poland, Hungary, Portugal, Slovakia, Australia, Singapore, Thailand, Hong Kong and Macao.

Over the years, he has worked with a variety of groups, including the Hamburg State Opera, Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester Berlin, the Radio Symphony Orchestra of Leipzig, the Academy of Saint Martin in the Fields, the Budapest Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Bremen Philharmonic Orchestra, Hamburger Symphoniker, Le Theatre de Nice, the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, the Tokyo Philharmonic, the Singapore Symphony Orchestra, and has collaborated with many distinguished world-class musicians including Neville Marriner, Mikhail Pletnev, Itzhak Perlman, Cho-Liang Lin, Frank Peter Zimmerman, Matt Haimovitz, Wang Jian, Charles Neidich and Tiziana Fabbricini. Mr. Yu has conducted the operas La Traviata, Turandot, Aida, Carmen, Lucia di Lammemoor, Romeo and Juliet, and Don Pasquale to critical acclaim, and has developed a repertoire covering works spanning many different periods and forms. He has also produced and conducted operas for The Urban Council of Hong Kong for five successive years. His profound musical interpretations and unique style have won him broad acclaim and international stature.

Long Yu was born in Shanghai in 1964 into a family of musicians. He received his early music education from his grandfather the composer Ding Shande, and this prepared him for the rigorous formal music education he subsequently received first at the Shanghai Music Conservatory and then at the Hochschule der Kunst in Berlin. Mr. Yu's current position is attributable to talent and hard work as well as direct guidance from first rate music educators and conductors in both China and Germany. Long Yu's professional experience and achievements in his native China cover both the artistic and the administrative. In 1992, he was appointed principal conductor of the Central Opera Theatre in Beijing. In the same year, he was involved in organizing the inaugural Beijing New Year's Concert, now an annual event, and served as its conductor for