Julian Yu
Julian Jing-Jun Yu is a Chinese-Australian composer.
Biography
Julian Yu was born in Beijing and studied at the Central Conservatory of Music, where he later worked. In the early 1980s, he studied at the Tokyo College of Music with Jōji Yuasa. In 1984 he married an Australian and the following year he moved to Australia where he taught at the Queensland Conservatorium. He then moved to Melbourne and studied at La Trobe University for a Master's degree with Keith Humble. With the support of an Australia Council Fellowship, he studied with Hans Werner Henze and Oliver Knussen at Tanglewood [Music Center|Tanglewood] in 1988 and received the [Serge Koussevitzky#Legacy|Koussevitzky Tanglewood Prize]. He has won over twenty-five prizes, including winning the Paul Lowin Orchestra Prize twice.Prizes
- Koussevitzky Tanglewood Prize
- Irino Prize
- Paul Lowin Orchestral Prizes
- Vienna Modern Masters Recording Award, for ''Wu-Yu''