Great Scot! He’s conducted the Concertgebouw
mainThis is Rory Macdonald, deputising for Mariss Jansons in Beijing.
A Chinese conductor, Lv Jia, replaced Jansons for Ein Heldenleben.
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It’s Lü Jia. Family name is Lü. He is music director of the Orquestra de Macau:
http://www.icm.gov.mo/om/en/content/?id=director
Lv is a commonly accepted alternative spelling for Lü. See the fourth bullet point in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinyin#Orthography as a reference.
A recurrent misnaming: the orchestra is named the (Royal) Concertgebouw Orchestra. Their home in Amsterdam is the Concertgebouw, which means concert building.