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About Dean
Wen-Yea Lu
Wen-Yea Lu, a native of Taipei City in Taiwan, currently serves as a professor at Graduate School of Musicology and dean of the School of Music at the National Taipei University of the Arts. She began learning the piano at a young age. In high school, she studied French horn with Teacher Si-Yuan Zhuang and joined the “Century Symphony Orchestra” in Taipei as a French horn player, participating in numerous concerts with the orchestra. In 1984, she enrolled in the Music Department at National Taiwan Normal University, majoring in French horn. In 1988, she went to study in Germany, pursuing Musicology at both the University of Regensburg and the Maximilian University of Munich. During her studies, she worked under the renowned instrument historian and music professor, Prof. Dr. Jürgen Eppelsheim, completing her Master's thesis on "The Use of French Horn in Beethoven's Works." In 1988, she pursued a Master's degree. In 2007, she obtained her Ph.D. in Musicology from the National Taipei University of the Arts. Her research focused on the composer Mahler, and participated in various academic conferences. She has authored several books, including "Gustave Mahler His Music and His World View." (National Taipei University of the Arts and Yuan-Liou Publishing, 2017), "Music Manifesto of a Clergyman: The Oratorios of Franz Liszt" (National Taipei University of the Arts and Yuan-Liou Publishing, 2017 reissue), "The Stories of 7 Violin Composers" (National Taipei University of the Arts and Wu-Nan Book Co., Ltd., 2018), and "Still I Sing a New Song: A Study of Mendelssohn's Oratorios" (National Taipei University of the Arts and Yuan-Liou Publishing, 2022).