Becky Lu began piano studies  at the age of 3, and has since been
invited to perform at such venues as  Jordan Hall, the Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, and the Bard Music  Festival to critical acclaim from the New York Times and the Wall Street  Journal. She has twice appeared on the NPR program "From the Top." In 2001,  she was the top prizewinner of the National Foundation for Advancement in  the Arts’ Art Recognition and Talent Search Program. Becky received a B.A.  in 2005 from Yale College, where she graduated magna cum laude, double  majoring in Political Science and Musicology. She was inducted into Phi  Beta Kappa and Pi Sigma Alpha (National Political Science Honor Society) .  As a student of Peter Frankl, she earned a Master of Music degree and an  Artist Diploma from the Yale School of Music, where she was the recipient  of the Luther Noss Award. While at Yale, she was an active performer of new  music as well as chamber music. Her violin-piano duo and piano trio swept  the top prizes at Yale's Friends of Music Competition. Her  festival participation includes Meadowmount, Kneisel Hall, Taos,  and International Musicians Seminar at Prussia Cove. She has recorded  over sixty songs that Ives quoted in his compositions for the Charles  Ives Society. Outside of performing, Becky's interests are varied. She  has worked on a winning U.S. Senate campaign, as a staff member in Congress, and served as guest lecturer on music theory and history at  St. Scholastica's College in Manila, the Philippines. She recently  returned from a semester in China, where she taught chamber music, music  theory, and music appreciation at Peking University and Central  Conservatory as a Teaching Fellow for the Yale-in-Beijing  program.