Her debut album, An Unopened Seashell, released by New Focus Recordings, has been described as “an excellent introduction to Lu’s iconoclastic vision, each track here is creative, unique and memorable” (Take Effect) and “a worthy New Music exploration of exotic instrumental sounds” (Fanfare). Label founder Dan Lippel has described “an understated joy in how she expresses phenomenon in sound, never hitting the listener over the head with the ‘program’ of the music, but instead subtly engaging with it as a catalyst for sophisticated play.”

Lu has received awards and distinctions, including the Carl Kanter Prize for orchestral composition, the William T. Faricy Award for creative music, the Gerts and Hammond and Farewell Award from the Musicians Club of Women, Nief-Norf Festival International Call for Score Winner, Transient Canvas Composition Fellowship, and an honorable mention at the DeGaetano Composition Institute. In addition, she was a finalist in the Talea Ensemble Emerging Composer Commissioning Program, the National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra Competition, and the Rudolph Award. Her work was selected to represent Taiwan at the 66th International Rostrum of Composers in Argentina. 

Her compositions have been supported by the Taiwan National Culture and Arts Foundation, and have been featured in Time:Span Festival (USA), Gaudeamus Festival (NL), Ilsuono Contemporary Music Academy (IT), Musiikin Aiko Time of Music (FI), Musikinstitut Darmstadt (GR), Sound of Wander (IT), Voix Nouvelles Academy in Royaumont (FR), International Double Reed Society (USA), Thailand New Music and Arts Symposium (TL), Nanhua Ethnomusicology International Symposium (TW), Asian Classical Music Initiative Conference (USA), and many others. She is a graduate of the Manhattan School of Music and holds a PhD in composition and music technology from Northwestern University.