Wayne Lu started playing the horn at the age of 10. By age 17, he had won his first concerto competition with the Iowa City Youth Orchestra. Wayne’s orchestral experience includes numerous performances throughout the Midwest with the Champaign-Urbana Symphony, Knox-Galesburg Symphony, Decatur Symphony, Danville Symphony, and Prairie Ensemble. Wayne’s past horn teachers include A. Kendall Betts, Kazimierz Machala, Virginia Thompson, John Cerminaro, and Paul Anderson. His composition teachers include Herbert Brun and Alex Lubet. Wayne also studied conducting with Akira Mori.