Acclaimed
by audiences and critics alike for the verve, commitment and intelligence
of his performances, Rupert Luck studied the violin with James Coles
before reading Music at Cambridge University, where he was also an
Instrumental Exhibitioner. After receiving his first degree,
he was awarded a postgraduate scholarship to continue his violin studies
with the eminent teacher Simon Fischer and thereafter won a Distinction
for his degree of Master of Music. He now enjoys a career as
a soloist and recitalist, appearing throughout Britain and Europe:
recent performances have included venues in Birmingham (at the Barber
Institute of Fine Arts), Cambridge (including a recital as part of
the 2008 Vaughan Williams Festival), Canterbury, Cheltenham, Durham,
Edinburgh, Glasgow, London, Oxford, Warwick and Winchester as well
as appearances in France, Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland and
the USA. In September 2007 he gave the Holst Birthday
Celebration Recital, an annual event hosted by the Trustees of the
composers Birthplace Museum, when he included in his programme works
for viola played on Holsts own instrument. During Autumn
2007 he gave in London the first complete cycle of the newly-published Sonatas for Violin and Piano by C. Hubert H. Parry; his recording
of these works, the first to be issued in twenty-five years, was released
last July on the label Radegund Records (RR CD018-01) and was praised
on Amazon.co.uk for its finely-crafted and subtly-nuanced performances and
for the warm generosity of Lucks violin tone. The CD has
recently also become available in the USA.
As a chamber musician,
his performances include radio recordings for the BBC and the Swiss
Broadcasting Corporation as well as concert appearances alongside
the soprano Jessye Norman and the jazz saxophonist Barbara Thomson.
Appearances with his piano trio, the Theophilus, including their London
debut in June 2002 at St Martin-in-the-Fields and a concert tour of
Cuba, under the auspices of the British Arts Council, the following
November, attracted much commendation. More recently, he has
performed alongside the pianist Vassily Lobanov and the cellist
Claus Kangiesser, both professors at the Hochschule fόr Musik in Cologne,
and has also collaborated with the highly-regarded violinist and composer
Simos Papanas, of whose Suite for George Demertzis he gave the UK
premiθre in London in December 2006. In October 2008 he
gave the world premiθre of a Violin Sonata written specially for him
by Stephen Matthews, which he is scheduled to record early in 2010;
and a commission from the composer Bennett Zon is currently in progress.
He has recently completed a highly-acclaimed recital tour of the Netherlands,
where his programmes featured Violin Sonatas by the Dutch composer
Julius Rφntgen. Future engagements include a concert for the
Fitzwilliam Chamber Music Series in Cambridge; an appearance at the
2010 English Music Festival; and a return visit to the Netherlands,
also in 2010.
As well as his busy schedule as a soloist and chamber
musician, Rupert is establishing a reputation as a writer and speaker
on the performing aspects of music. In May last year he gave
a lecture-recital at University College London on the parallels between
J. S. Bachs Partita in D minor and the Suite for George Demertzis
by Simos Papanas; an article on Blisss Theme and Cadenza
for violin was published in Autumn 2007 by The Arthur Bliss Society; and
a paper on Parrys Violin Sonatas appeared in the British Music
Society Newsletter in June 2008. With the kind permission of
the Royal College of Music and of Dr Anthony Wilson, he is currently
preparing a performing edition of the unpublished Violin Sonatas by
Walford Davies, the manuscripts of which are housed in the RCM Library
Archive. He was recently invited to contribute an article on
York Bowens Violin Sonata to Spirit of England, the newsletter
of the English Music Festival, in anticipation of his performance
of that work in 2010; and he will be writing a similar piece
on the A major Sonata of Walford Davies for the March issue. In
April he will conduct masterclasses for the Music Faculty of Cambridge
University and will also present a seminar on Practical Approaches
to Performance.
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Ruperts CD, C. Hubert H. Parry: The Sonatas for Violin and
Piano, is now available on the label Radegund Records (RR CD018-01).
The recording can be purchased through its dedicated website, www.parrysonatas.com;
it is also available through Amazon.co.uk or as a download from iTunes.
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