Justinn Lu

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That feeling when all the high notes work 😅 Special thanks to @airmusicsax @airmusicaustralia for making it easy on the new ligatures 😎 Join us next FREE CONCERT with @finchstconcerts on Monday Oct 6th! #melbournemusic #stjohnsmalverneast #livemusicmelbourne #freeconcertmelbourne #supportlocalmusic

Sometimes as performers we have to UNLEARN a natural physical state in relation to the emotional state of the music (eg. is the music is anxious, not to be tense, or if there are high notes that are meant to sound freeing instead of cautious and tense). It was so relieving being able to play this exposition spontaneously and joyfully. Each phrase just seemed to finally flow after each natural breath, and it felt so nice to play with the front-seated team of Peter de Jager on piano and Aditya on kit. I’m very proud that there was no doubt on my face, no self criticism, no self punishment, no anxiety, just flow and focus in my eyebrows, and such a satisfied and proud face at the end too that I just couldn’t contain. Even now I’m glad I can watch this back and not let the small errors eat me up (wrong note towards the start, squeak towards the end, a little bit late on the anacrusis starts of each phrases because the hall was so unexpectedly big and I probably could have prepared my embouchure faster after some deep breaths), because I have come to terms that I am just human and I can trust myself to improve while forgiving myself as well and being grateful for the opportunity I was given and the work I put in. It was important for me that this exposition was truly joyful, energetic, free, and spontaneous, with no hint of doubt or anxiety which would be an emotional tool for my story’s protagonist to have complications very shortly after. I’m glad I was able to feel very cool playing this, and thank you to everyone who said I was cool too because it’s not something I think about myself often but it’s nice to feel every now and then 🤣 @airmusicaustralia @bpmstudios.au #saxophone #melbourne #australia #musician #airmusicaustralia #filipino

Justinn Lu - Saxophone for Quintet Evergreen After immigrating from the Philippines with his family in 2007, Justinn began his musical training at the Sydney Conservatorium High School in 2012. Receiving saxophone lessons from Andrew Smith and Mark Walton, this intensive musical education included choral performances at the Opera House of Carmina Burana and Bernstein’s Mass, saxophone quartet performances at Government House, conducting lessons with Richard Gill, composition lessons Dr. Ursula Caporali, alongside rigorous musicology, harmony, and aural training in extended classroom hours. In 2018, Justinn performed Dubois’ Saxophone Concerto at his valedictory concert as the winner of the Conservatorium High School Concerto Competition. In the same year, Justinn was selected to perform for ENCORE at the Sydney Opera House which annually features the highest scoring HSC Music students in NSW. In 2019, he received a scholarship to study at the Melbourne Conservatorium under the tutelage of Dr. Joseph Lallo. During this time, Justinn built his reputation as an award-winning saxophonist, notably winning the NSW Young Virtuoso Awards at the age of 18, as well as winning the Melbourne Conservatorium Concerto-Aria Competition in 2023. This set the stage for Justinn’s debut as a soloist at Hamer Hall performing the Cyber Bird Concerto in 2025. In 2024, Justinn launched his start-up called BPM Studios, providing media and marketing services for performers with no out-of-pocket cost. After being invited to be the collaborative media team for the 10th Asia Pacific Saxophone Academy in Bangkok, Thailand, Justinn secured a distribution contract with Air Music (Taiwan), which provides high quality neck straps, ligatures, and weighted screws for saxophones. In 2025, Justinn partnered with upcoming performance-based classical music groups such as Cedar Collective and Ensemble Mania to provide backend support on sustainable business and financial models for concerts and performers. Later that year, he established “Finch St Concerts” with the parish of St. John’s, Malvern East with the vision of growing it into a staple concert venue in Melbourne’s east. 📸 @853problemunc

First performed Bilby (by amazing @tim_jayatilaka ) at the Melbourne Composers League last year, and recently shared again at our March concert. A fun, jazzy piece inspired by one of Australia’s cutest nocturnal creatures — full of character, colour, and storytelling🎷 The full recording of the piece is now available on our YouTube channel!😃 #saxophone #chambermusic #saxophonequartet #melbournesax #concertrecording

Quintet Evergreen are an emerging Melbourne-based reed quintet comprising of @josh.webby (oboe), @kaechrn (clarinet), @junstinn2202 (saxophone), @_bailey_hume (bass clarinet), and @bae_ssoon (bassoon). Formed in 2024, Quintet Evergreen brings together members from all over Australia and New Zealand with the united goal of bringing attention to the beautiful and modern soundscape of the reed quintet, as well as commissioning new Australian works to further bury its roots in Australian soil. Involved in the 40th anniversary of the founding Dutch ensemble, Calefax Reed Quintet, Evergreen was one of forty reed quintets across the world to record movements of a new commission, LINK by Michel van der Aa. Evergreen’s performance has since been published and promoted via their official media outlets. In 2026, Quintet Evergreen gave the Australian premiere of CANE by Jenni Brandon, a new concerto written for solo bassoon with reed quintet accompaniment. This year, Evergreen is excited to keep celebrating all things reeds, and looks forward to continually expanding their repertoire and performance outreach. #reedquintet #chambermusic #australianmusicians #melbourneartists

We were delighted to perform @anusha_composer ‘s Summer Mischief at our March concert! 🎷✨ It’s a fun and playful piece with three movements: 1. Yay! Summer Holidays! 2. It’s Too Hot! 3. AHHH… SPIDER! 🕷️ The full recording of the piece is now available on our YouTube channel!😃

Very fun afternoon playtesting @airmusicaustralia gear with expert guidance from @junstinn2202 ! I walked out with a very speccy sax ligature, ergonomic neck strap, some delicious afternoon tea by @nik_fooood and some great conversation! @clasax.vic

Join us for our upcoming concert at @finchstconcerts : 5 Finch St / St John’s, Malvern East ! This is going to be our last concert before our baritone saxophonist @sax.jiji leaves for his studies in JAPAN, so we’d love to see you there to celebrate our many years of music-making and friendship 🥰 Tickets in our bio 🎷 #chambermusic #livemusic #malverneast #saxquartet #melbournemusician

My second year as @airmusicaustralia sponsoring the @nzsaxsociety Summer School. One of my favourite saxophone communities in the whole world (that I’ve been to), and I’m so glad it is my once-a-year excuse to travel to NZ! 1. We were able to support a few students find gear that works for them. A student who visited our stall with a ligature that was too big for their mouthpiece went home with our F1 Baritone Ligature. A student who didn’t like their sound on a rubber ligature loved the resonance of our super affordable honeycomb ligature. Most notably, we awarded a Superior Neck Strap to a student who came in with a neck strap that was simply too big for them to play alto sax—a neck strap that was simply in the case of the sax they rented from their school. 2. I got to meet very kind store owners of Auckland. Notably, my stall was positioned between ABI, where Natasha was able to fix a small leak in my saxophone on the spot, and Dr Toot who was a free comedy show while people tested our ligatures and neck straps. It was great to also meet Jenny from Vanguard Orchestral at the sponsor/staff dinner who I learnt is also a passionate climbing and caving instructor, which made me very excited for my next trip 😉 3. What I was personally most excited for, which was just to simply play in the large ensembles with people who were just excited to get together and play some sax. It filled my heart to perform orchestral, pop song, and film arrangements with students of all ages and backgrounds. If I met you this year, please stay in touch! I’m so blessed that I can use Air Music as my personal platform to meet so many musicians all around Australia, New Zealand, and the rest of the world ☺️

As controversial as this can sound, you cannot deny that different body types produces different sounds. You can’t expect to produce the same sound as someone 2x your size, so don’t try to mimic their setup. . . . . . #sax #saxophone #saxsolo

From not practicing for 9 months and being constantly injured to projecting out into a 2,000 seater concert hall. . . . . . #saxophone #unimelb #sax #saxsolo #saxquarter #saxconcert #concert #music #classical #unimelbmusic