A virtuoso pianist with infinite creativity, Yi-Chih Lu has recorded 10 solo piano albums over his career, playing works by Brahms, Chopin, Adolph Kurt Böhm, Taiwanese composers Tan Si-Ti and Hung Chi-Lien, as well as his own arrangements of Taiwanese folk songs. Lu’s Böhm albums were highly praised by Franken Post and Bayern 4 Klassik, while his My Chopin; My Brahms album won him a Golden Melody Award in the ‘Best Interpreter of Classical Music’ category.

As a skillful arranger, Lu adapts Taiwanese folk songs, popular tunes and piano concerti into solo piano works, many of which have been brought to publication with great reception. 

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Lu has recieved the “Cziffra Prize” from the Vienna Cziffra Foundation in recognition of his exceptional performance of G. Cziffra’s compositions and won various competitions earlier in his career. With his fame, Lu has performed to a worldwide audience in Austria, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Romania, Slovenia, the USA, Canada, Japan and China, at important venues such as the Musikverein in Vienna, Berliner Philharmonie, and more than 40 cities including Salzburg, Stuttgart, and Munich.

Over the years, Lu has appeared with the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Orchester BerlinClassicPlayers, the Arad State Philharmonic, the Sendai Philharmonic, the Taiwan Philharmonic (NSO), the Taipei Symphony Orchestra, and the Evergreen Symphony Orchestra, and has been equally active in the field of chamber and contemporary music. While touring on the West Coast of the USA, Washington State King County honored Lu by naming July 9, 2016 as “Yi-Chih Lu Day” to recognize his achievement in piano performance.

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Born in Taipei and taking up piano playing as a child, Lu received his Master's degree from the University for Music and Performing Arts Vienna and Konzertexamen from the University of the Arts Berlin. Lu currently holds assistant professorships at the Taipei National University of the Arts.