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, Südwestdeutsches Kammerorchester Pforzheim 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 recently joined the renowned Juilliard String Quartet as their second violinist and has already performed extensively across the US and Asia with tours in Europe and Canada following throughout the season. He has further 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. In December 2025, the Juilliard String Quartet played the world premiere of his “Popular Dances” for string quartet at their NYC debut in the quartet’s new configuration at Alice Tully Hall.
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 at the Juilliard School, studying with Catherine Cho and Donald Weilerstein. He has pursued further Professional Studies with Antje Weithaas at the Kronberg Academy.
After serving as teaching assistant to Donald Weilerstein and Catherine Cho for several years, Fu accepted his faculty position at the Juilliard School in Fall 2025, where he teaches violin and chamber music for both the College and Pre-College Divisions.
He currently performs on a “Lorenzo Storioni, Cremona, 1781”, generously loaned from the instruments fund of the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben
Photo by Miles Mazel Serkin
