Luke Hsu is hailed as “in a class by himself with total command of the instrument” by the Montreal Gazette and a “a very expressive musician who transcends the score…making genius interpretations” by Le Soir, Brussels. As a performer, Luke has soloed with numerous orchestras in Europe and North America under the baton of many eminent conductors such as Leonard Slatkin, Nikolaj Znaider, Pascal Vierrot, Hugh Wolff, Marek Pijarowski, Jean-Jacques Kantarow, and Cristian Macelaru. He has won prizes at the Wieniawski, Queen Elisabeth, Indianapolis, and Paganini Competitions.

He is an avid recitalist and performs regularly in prestigious venues such as Wigmore Hall, St. John Smith Square, Kennedy Center, Herkulessaal, Bozar, etc. As a chamber musician, he has collaborated with luminaries such as Itamar Golan, Cho-Liang Lin, Gil Shaham, Marc-Andre Hamelin, Peter Frankl, Colin Carr, and musicians from the New York Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and the Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal. His festival appearances include Pablo Casals Festival, Verbier, La Jolla SummerFest, Prussia Cove Open Chamber Music, Music@Menlo, YellowBarn, San Miguel de Allende Chamber Music Festival, Aspen Music Festival, and Tongyeong International Music Festival.

Luke’s compositions have been featured many times in Kim Kashkashian’s series and social initiative, Music for Food. Self-taught as a composer, he has written numerous chamber works including a recent duo written specifically for the Weilerstein Duo. Lutosławski and Webern are his biggest influences, and he hopes to write music that carries this tradition forward into the 21st century.