Tianyi Lu is the Assistant Conductor of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Music Director of the Bristol Metropolitan Orchestra, Principal Conductor of the St. Woolos Players, and regularly guest conducts orchestras around the United Kingdom and New Zealand. She is the Junior Fellow in Conducting at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama where she is a member of the conducting faculty. Guest engagements have included concerts with the Cardiff Philharmonic Orchestra, the Abergavenny Symphony Orchestra, Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra Summer School and Opera Otago.

In masterclass or assistant roles, Tianyi Lu has worked with conductors and ensembles including Bernard Haitink and the Lucerne Festival Strings, Sir Mark Elder and the Hallé, Thomas Søndergård and Xian Zhang with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Carlo Rizzi and David Jones with the RWCMD Orchestra, Carlo Montanaro and Nicole Paiement with the Dallas Opera Orchestra, Alice Farnham and Welsh National Youth Opera, Alexander Polynichko with the St. Petersburg Philharmonic, Pietari Inkinen with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Sian Edwards with the Dartington Festival Orchestra, Kenneth Kiesler with the Berlin Sinfonietta and Christopher Seaman as part of the Symphony Services International Conducting Training Programme.

Tianyi Lu began conducting studies at the University of Auckland with Uwe Grodd and Karen Grylls where she completed her Bachelor of Music with First Class Honours, before studying with John Hopkins at the University of Melbourne. She was awarded Distinction for her MMus in Orchestral Conducting at the RWCMD studying with David Jones in 2015.

As a flautist and composer, Tianyi Lu has received awards including first prize in the New Zealand Woodwind Competition and top awards in the Douglas Lilburn and Llewellyn Jones composition competitions at the University of Auckland. Her broad musical interests have also led her to study the baroque flute, viola da gamba, harpsichord and electronic music composition in her undergraduate studies. As a singer, she has performed in venues such as St. Paul’s Cathedral, London and the Esplanade, Singapore with the University of Auckland Chamber Choir. She has also been involved in the Sistema Aotearoa program in New Zealand, and loves to teach.