Long Yu

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Long Yu (born in 1964) is currently the Music Director of the China Philharmonic and the Guangzhou Symphony.

Yu was born into a family of musicians in Shanghai and received his early childhood music education from his grandfather the composer Ding Shande. This education prepared him for the rigorous formal music education he was to receive in Shanghai Conservatory and then in Hochschule der Kunst in Berlin.