Max Lu Yinuo
Yinuo Lu is currently studying for a Bachelor of Music with a full scholarship at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, under the tutorship of Professor Gabriel Kwok and Professor Yury Shadrin. In 2017, he was admitted to the Central Conservatory of Music Middle School. In 2019, he was admitted to the Pre-College programme at the Tianjin Juilliard School, where he studied with Professor Xiaohan Wang.
At the age of 14, he held a successful recital of Bach’s Goldberg Variations in Beijing and has given outstanding performances at the Forbidden City Concert Hall in Beijing, the Tianjin Juilliard Concert Hall, the Tianjin Concert Hall, the Hong Kong City Hall, the Jiangsu Grand Theatre and the Victoria Concert Hall in Singapore. He has also performed Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin and Tchaikovsky’s piano concertos with the Tianjin Symphony Orchestra, the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts Orchestra and the Cross-Strait Art Youth United Symphony Orchestra.
In 2026, he performed Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1 with Maestro Yip Wing-sie, winning the HKAPA Academy Concerto Competition in his first year of the Bachelor of Music programme.
He has also participated in the Tianjin Juilliard Piano Festival in 2025, 2024 and 2023 with a full scholarship.
During his studies, he attended masterclasses led by Professors Arie Vardi, Yoheved Kaplinsky, Andrzej Jasinski, Michel Béroff, Katarzyna Popowa-ZydroÅ„, Boris Slutsky, Bernd Goetzke, Minsoo Sohn, Ewa Pablocka, Wojciech Åšwitala, Antonio Pompa-Baldi, Matti Raekallio, Chiu Fun Poon, Sa Chen, Sofya Gulyak, Ronan O’Hora, Jan Jiracek von Arnim, Claudio MartÃnez-Mehner, Ewa Kupiec and Antti Siirala. He received unanimous praise from all of these teachers.
Yinuo Lu has developed in many ways. As an actor, his first film, You Are the Best, was released on 18 July 2025. It was directed by Jiang Wen, one of the most influential film directors, screenwriters and actors in China. Lu played the role of the Chinese pianist Lang Lang in the film.