FRANCE
October 31, 1998
Supported by the Rotary Club, the Gautier Capuçon Foundation and the Safran Foundation, Luka Ispir embodies the new generation of French violinists.
At the age of 14, he left his hometown for Paris, where he won a prize at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris with Olivier Charlier. He continued his musical studies at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin in the class of Stephan Picard, before completing his training as artist in residence at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel with Augustin Dumay, in a Master’s programme at the Haute École de Musique de Lausanne with Renaud Capuçon and in advanced studies at the Accademia Perosi di Biella with Silvia Marcovici.
Winner of the Rotary Club’s 1st prize for soloist in 2023, Luka Ispir is regularly invited as a soloist and has performed with the Orchestre Régional de Normandie, the Orchestre Appassionato, the Bilkent Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestra dell’Accademia Teatro alla Scala in Milan and at the International Competition Città di Vittorio Veneto, where he won 2nd prize and two special prizes.
