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 made his concerto debut at the age of eleven and since then has appeared as soloist and recitalist throughout Britain and Europe.  Recent performances have included venues in Birmingham, Cambridge, Canterbury, Cheltenham, Durham, London, Oxford, Warwick and Winchester as well as appearances in France, Germany, Switzerland and 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.  He has also worked with the pianist Vassily Lobanov and the ’cellist Claus Kanngiesser, both professors at the Hochschule für Musik in Cologne, and has recently collaborated with the highly-regarded violinist and composer Simos Papanas, of whose ‘Suite for George Demertzis’ he gave the UK première in London in December 2006.  In October 2008 he will give the world première of a Violin Sonata written specially for him by the composer Stephen Matthews.