Biography
With ‘a million-dollar sound’ (Pinchas Zukerman), twenty-one-year-old Luka Faulisi is one of the most promising violinists of his generation. Having started to play the violin at the age of three, Luka was a student of Boris Belkin at the Conservatorium Maastricht in the Netherlands. Over the years, through personal mentoring, several distinguished artists have influenced Luka’s musical formation. Pavel Berman describes him as an ‘an incredibly gifted virtuoso violinist’. Flautist Emmanuel Pahud praises Luka as ‘an extremely talented young man with great instrumental abilities and a strong musical expression’ and according to Jean-Jacques Kantorow Luka possesses ‘incredible facilities.’
Recent European concerti highlights include Luka’s Polish debut with the Szczecin Philharmonic; French debut with the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse; Italian debut with the Orchestra Filharmonica di Torino; Serbian debut with the Radio Television Serbia Symphony Orchestra at the Kolarac Hall in Belgrade and a North Macedonian debut with FAME’S European Orchestral Performing Institute. Luka’s Asian presence is also growing having collaborated recently with the Macao Orchestra and the Hong Kong Sinfonietta. Shortly upcoming is Luka’s British debut with the Liverpool Philharmonic at the Royal Albert Hall; Finnish debut with the Oulu Symphony and Parisian orchestral debut with the Orchestre National d’Île-de-France.
Recent recital highlights include debuts in Paris at the Salle Colonne and debut at the 30th anniversary of the “Festival du Salon de Provence” in summer 2023.
Luka’s debut recital album “Aria”, recorded with the pianist Itamar Golan, was released by Sony Classical International in Spring 2023.
Reviews
“a first disc under the sign of virtuosity and opera.”
“a young artist certainly to be followed.”
“Luka Faulisi does not sing on stage, but makes his violin sing.”
“Luka Faulisi’s interpretation of Saint-Saen’s Third Violin Concerto, Op. 61 was an original one. This is a great achievement in the case of such popular work. It proves the intellectual potential of a young musician. Faulisi rids the piece of histrionic pretentiousness. He offers a focused, nuanced reading. Bravo for imagination!”
” …’a million dollar sound’ – this is how Pinchas Zukerman characterizes the timbre of the violin of Luka Faulisi, whose early twenties in no way diminishes the expression of an already strong and singular personality.”
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