An emerging composer of concert and film music, Alex Lu has composed works for the San Francisco Conservatory Chorus, SFCM New Music Ensemble, China’s Dalian University Orchestra, Pasadena Young Musicians Orchestra, South Bay Children’s Choir, among others. In 2006, Alex began working in film music under Academy and Emmy Award winner, Todd Boekelheide. Alex has contributed original music to numerous documentary films broadcast on PBS, notably Blessed is the Match; Butte, America; Hard Problems; MINE, among others. Alex was music assistant to the composer for the 2010 Universal Picture Robin Hood. From 2006 - 2009, he served as Assistant Director and Principal Accompanist of the Golden Gate Men’s Chorus in San Francisco, under former Chanticleer director, Joseph Jennings. Alex received a master of music degree from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, where he studied composition with David Conte and orchestration with Conrad Susa.

His bachelor of music degrees are in piano and composition from Biola University, as a student of pianist Lina Baranov and composers John Curtis Browning and Robert Denham.  Alex is an alumnus of the European American Musical Alliance at the École Normale de Musique de Paris, where his teachers included Michel Merlet of the Paris Conservatory and Philip Lasser of the Juilliard School.  Alex currently teaches composition at Biola University and Fountain Music & Arts Institute.