Leonard Fu

Leonard Fu has established a diverse and distinguished career as a soloist, chamber musician, concertmaster, pedagogue, and composer. He has performed across Europe, North America, and Asia, appearing in renowned venues such as the Elbphilharmonie, Béla Bartók National Concert Hall, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Het Concertgebouw, Alice Tully Hall, and Jordan Hall.

As a soloist, he has been featured with leading orchestras including the NDR Radiophilharmonie, Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Frankfurt Radio Symphony, and Allentown Symphony, under conductors such as Andrew Manze, Alexander Shelley, Elias Grandy, and Diane Wittry. He has also served as guest concertmaster with the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe.

A dedicated chamber musician, Fu has collaborated with artists including Mitsuko Uchida, Kim Kashkashian, Janine Jansen, Jörg Widmann, Laurence Lesser, Jens Peter Maintz, Hsin-Yun Huang, Natasha Brofsky, and the Kuss Quartet. His artistic interests span historical performance, contemporary premieres, and cross-genre collaborations.

An accomplished composer, Fu frequently performs his own works and has been commissioned for solo and chamber pieces. He is a laureate of numerous international competitions, including the Postacchini, Lipizer, Joseph Joachim, TONALi, Ton & Erklärung, and Schadt competitions, and has been praised for his “superior awareness for sound and structure” by German music critic Harald Eggebrecht.

Fu’s early years in Germany were guided by studies with Lara Lev and Tanja Becker-Bender. He completed his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees at New England Conservatory under the tutelage of Donald Weilerstein, followed by his Artist Diploma (‘23) at the Juilliard School, studying with Catherine Cho and Donald Weilerstein. He has pursued further Professional Studies with Antje Weithaas at the Kronberg Academy, supported by the Gingko Foundation.

He has served as teaching assistant to Weilerstein at NEC and Cho at Juilliard, where he assisted with both Pre-College and College students. He will join the Juilliard String Quartet as second violin and the Juilliard faculty in fall 2025.

Fu performs on a “Lorenzo Storioni, Cremona, 1781”, generously loaned from the instruments fund of the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben.