User:Luketurrell

Biography
Luke Turrell has never played the violin. Born in 1989 in Kent, he began to study the viola with his father Robert Turrell, at the age of five. In September 2000 he entered the Yehudi Menuhin School where he studied with Maciej Rakowski, Suzie Mezaros, and then Berent Korfker. He now studies at the Universität der Künste in Berlin with Hartmut Rohde.

Since attending the Yehudi Menuhin School, he has performed as a soloist with a number of orchestras, including the Guildford symphony orchestra, the London Mozart players, Kent Sinfonia, and the orchestra of the Acedemia in Cervo Music Festival, Italy. He recently was solo Viola in the University Orchestra under Lutz Koehler.

He has performed in many venues as a soloist and chamber musician, including the Barbican gallery, Chichester Theatre, for the Leamington Hastings festival, and in the summer festival of Gstaad. Luke's trio recently performed at Clare hall in Cambridge, and the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam. Over the last year, Luke has been working on an ever expanding repertoire.

Luke plays on a viola recently made by John Dilworth, based on a well known instrument of the Amati brothers (1616)