余隆是活跃于当今国际乐坛的最杰出的中国指挥家之一。现任中国爱乐乐团艺术总监和首席指挥、广州交响乐团音乐总监、北京国际音乐节艺术委员会主席和上海东方艺术中心艺术委员会主席。

余隆在作为中国爱乐乐团艺术总监和首席指挥以及广州交响乐团音乐总监所担负的指挥活动之外，与世界各地主要乐团和歌剧院有着广泛合作，包括芝加哥交响乐团、费城管弦乐团、华盛顿美国国家交响乐团、汉堡国家歌剧院、柏林广播交响乐团、莱比锡广播乐团、匈牙利布达佩斯广播交响乐团、法国尼斯大剧院、爱尔兰国家爱乐乐团、悉尼交响乐团、东京爱乐乐团、新加坡交响乐团、威尼斯凤凰歌剧院和香港管弦乐团等。

余隆1964年出生于上海一个音乐世家，自幼随其外祖父、著名作曲家和教育家丁善德教授学习。后相继进入上海音乐学院和德国柏林高等艺术大学。1992年任北京中央歌剧院常任指挥，同年创办首届北京新年音乐会，并连续三年担任指挥，开启国内演出新年音乐会之先河。1998年创办北京国际音乐节并担任艺术总监，经过十年发展，余隆领导下的北京国际音乐节已成为全球最知名的音乐盛会之一。除邀请世界级团体和艺术家演出，北京国际音乐节向包括克里斯托夫-潘德列茨基、菲利普-格拉斯、郭文景和陈其钢在内的许多作曲家委约创作了大量音乐新作。2000年余隆参与创建中国爱乐乐团并担任艺术总监和首席指挥。2003年任广州交响乐团音乐总监。数年来他多次率中国爱乐乐团和广州交响乐团在世界各国巡演。2005年2月至4月，余隆率领中国爱乐乐团进行了规模空前的环球世界巡演，历时四十多天，跨越北美和欧洲，不仅在中国乐团出访史上前所未有，在全亚洲交响乐团中亦属罕见。

余隆指挥的录音包括德意志唱片公司录制发行、中国爱乐乐团演奏的勃拉姆斯G小调钢琴四重奏（阿诺德-勋伯格配器）和瓦格纳的《唐豪瑟》序曲、中国管弦乐作品集以及由郎朗担任钢琴独奏的钢琴协奏曲《黄河》。此外拿索斯公司曾发行余隆指挥的科恩格尔德小提琴协奏曲和丁善德《长征交响曲》。

鉴于余隆在推动当今世界古典音乐事业发展和促进国际间文化交流方面所做的突出贡献，2002年，德国万宝龙文化基金会向他颁发了年度万宝龙卓越艺术成就奖；2003年，法国政府特别授予余隆“法兰西文学艺术骑士勋章”；同年意大利政府向他颁发了骑士勋章。

LONG YU

As one of the most distinguished Chinese conductors with an established international reputation, Maestro Long Yu is currently Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of the China Philharmonic Orchestra, Music Director of the Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra, President of the Beijing Music Festival Artistic Committee and President of the Artistic Committee of the Shanghai Oriental Center.

Besides his concerts throughout the year with the China Philharmonic and the Guangzhou Symphony, Long Yu has appeared with the world’s major orchestras and opera companies, including the Chicago Symphony, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington DC, the Hamburg State Opera, the Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester Berlin, the Radio Symphony Orchestra of Leipzig, the Budapest Radio Symphony Orchestra, Le Theatre de Nice, the Ireland  National Philharmonic Orchestra, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, the Tokyo Philharmonic, the Singapore Symphony Orchestra and the Teatro La Fenice in Venice.

Long Yu was born in Shanghai in 1964 into a family of musicians.  He received his early music education from his grandfather Ding Shande, a celebrated composer and an educator of high prestige. 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. 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 three successive years.  In 1998, he founded the Beijing Music Festival held the position of Artistic Director and has been President of the Beijing Music Festival Arts Foundation from 2005. Under his leadership the Beijing Music Festival has become one of the internationally acclaimed festivals. Along with numerous performances by world-renowned ensembles and artists, the festival has been commissioning new music from composers such as Krzysztof Penderecki, Philip Glass and Guo Wenjing. In 2000, Long Yu co-founded the China Philharmonic Orchestra and was appointed Artistic Director and Principal Conductor. Now entering his 7th season with the CPO, he has maintained the high standard of orchestral performance and artistic administration. In 2003, Long Yu was appointed the Music Director of the Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra. He has toured extensively with the China Philharmonic and the Guangzhou Symphony. From February to April 2005, the China Philharmonic Orchestra took an international tour under the baton of Maestro Long Yu. Within 40 days they appeared in 22 cities throughout North America and Europe. This is the first time a symphony orchestra gave performances in the two continents in China’s history, even in Asia.

Mr. Long Yu’s recordings include, on Deutsche Grammophon with the China Philharmonic, Brahms’s Piano Quartet in G Minor (orch. Arnold Schoenberg) and Wagner’s Tannhäuser Overture, highlights of Chinese symphonic music and Yellow River Concerto with Lang Lang. Recordings on Naxos include Korngold’s Violin Concerto and Ding Shande’s Long March Symphony.

Long Yu received the 2002 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. In 2005, Italian President honored Maestro Long Yu L’onorificenza di commendatore.