Lu Jia-Hong (盧家宏)

Lu Jia-Hong began studying violin at the age of four and bought his first guitar in junior high school. He graduated in civil engineering from National Taiwan University, then chose a life in music.

For 30 years he has worked as a fingerstyle soloist, session guitarist, arranger, producer and teacher. He has performed and recorded with Jonathan Lee, Lo Ta-yu, Emil Chau, Jay Chou, A-Mei, Rene Liu, Tanya Chua, Aska Yang, Matilda Tao, Fish Leong, Victor Wong, A-Lin, Mayday, S.H.E, Anpu, Hebe Tien, Jam Hsiao, Matthew Lien, SuperBand, Jacky Wu, Chyi Yu, Eve Ai and many more, taking part in more than a thousand large-scale concerts. He played the opening solo at the 24th Golden Melody Awards ceremony (2013), accompanied Jam Hsiao at the 2007 Golden Horse Awards and Matthew Lien at the 2010 Golden Bell Awards, and was the guitarist for Chyi Yu – runner-up – at the grand final of China’s hit TV show Singer 2026.

As a soloist he toured Tsunami through Taipei, Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Chengdu and Taiyuan in 2012, gave more than a hundred ticketed solo concerts across China between 2012 and 2018, and has shared stages with fingerstyle guitarists Laurence Juber (Taiwan, 2003) and Jacques Stotzem (Hong Kong and China, 2005).

Teacher and author

Lu has published guitar books since 1999 – more than 30 titles, plus around 170 fingerstyle arrangements in the magazine Guitar Shop (六弦百貨店). His 2007 method book Fingerstyle Guitar Training Encyclopedia (指彈吉他訓練大全, now in its fifth edition) coined and defined the Chinese term for fingerstyle guitar, 指彈吉他. He is also known for his “reverse-hand” playing technique, a first among Chinese-speaking guitarists.

Artists he has coached include Jay Chou (guitar and banjo), A-Mei (ukulele), Hebe Tien (ukulele), Aska Yang, Rene Liu, Chang Yun-Ching and Rachel Liang. For Jay Chou’s acoustic solo in “免費教學錄影帶”, Lu arranged and recorded the part, then taught it to Jay in person over three days.

Original albums

Tsunami (大海嘯, 2011) – nine original fingerstyle pieces, released as CD+DVD with a companion score book. Pure Heart (初心, 2026) – twenty-plus new originals recorded live in concert.