Lü Jia (Chinese: 吕嘉; pinyin: Lǚ Jiā; born 1964 in Shanghai) is a Chinese-born Italian conductor.
In 1991, when he was only 26, he was appointed as the Music Director of the Teatro Lirico Giuseppe Verdi[1] and from 1991 to 1995 he was also principal conductor.
[1] In 1999, he became the principal conductor and director of the Norrköping Symphony Orchestra (until 2005).
[2] In 2007 he conducted "La gazza ladra" by Gioachino Rossini at Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro and it was released as a DVD from Dynamic.
[4][5] He is currently the chief conductor of the China National Center for the Performing Arts Orchestra.