Luka Ispir

At the age of 5, he began playing the violin at the CRR in Rouen. After two years at the CRR in Boulogne Billancourt with Christophe Poiget, he was admitted at the age of 16 to the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris with Olivier Charlier. He continued his musical studies at the Hanns Eisler School in Berlin in Stephan Picard’s class, before perfecting his training as Artist in Residence at the Chapelle Musicale Reine Elisabeth with Augustin Dumay, in a Master’s programme at the Haute École de Lausanne with Renaud Capuçon, and in advanced studies at the Perosi Academy with Silvia Marcovici.

A sought-after chamber musician, he took part in the formation of the Philia Trio, with whom he performed at numerous festivals in France and abroad. Luka is regularly invited as a soloist, and has performed with the Orchestre de Normandie, the Appassionato Orchestra, the Bilkent Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestra of New Europe, the Moroccan Philharmonic Orchestra, the Nouvelles Portées Ensemble and the Orchestra of the La Scala Academy in Milan. He has also been invited to perform at the Jaroussky Academy, the Kronberg Academy, the Auvers sur Oise Festival, the Salle Cortot Chamber Music Centre in Paris, the Pablo Casals Festival, the Menuhin Festival, the Ravel Festival, the Rencontres Musicales d’Evian, the Opus Amadeus Festival, the Giverny Festival and the Festival de la Hague.

Luka Ispir is a laureate of the Fondation Gautier Capuçon, thanks to which he will record a duo album with his cellist brother Léo Ispir on the Warner Classics/Erato label in 2024. In January 2025, the Ispir brothers will record an album accompanied by the ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien conducted by Howard Griffiths. Luka Ispir plays on a Pressenda violin generously loaned by the Michael Guttman collection