Yu Long
Director
RFCE / Beijing Pop Festival
Long Yu is the founder and Artistic Director of the Beijing Music Festival (Asia’s largest classical music festival). He is also one of the most distinguished Chinese conductors with an established international reputation.
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 2000, he co-founded the China Philharmonic Orchestra and was appointed its first Artistic Director and Principal Conductor. In May 2003, he was appointed the Music Director of the Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra.
Long Yu has made many recordings on Naxos and Deutsche Grammophon.
In 2002, Long Yu received the Montblanc Arts Patronage Award from the Montblanc Cultural Foundation, and in 2003 came ’Le grade de chevalier dans l’ordre des Arts et des Lettres’ (The Honor of Chevalier of French Art and Culture) from the Government of France.