In October 2018 Leonard Fu was awarded the 5th prize at the 10th International Joseph Joachim Violin Competition in Hannover. In the two final rounds he played the Mozart G-minor String Quintet with the Kuss Quartet in the Richard-Jakoby-Saal of the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover and the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in E-minor op. 64 in the Big Studio of the Northern German Broadcasting Station with the NDR Radiophilharmonie under the baton of Andrew Manze.