Alison Luthmers
Biography Alison Luthmers
Alison Luthmers
Canadian-American Baroque violinist Alison Luthmers enjoys a thriving career as leader, soloist and chamber musician, performing with Concerto Copenhagen, Camerata Øresund, Barokksolistene, Arte dei Suonatori, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Nivalis Barokk, Göteborg Baroque, Eslövs Kammarorkester, Nivalis Barokk and HemiDemiSemi Consort. She has recorded for Rubicon, Da Capo, Channel Classics, Berlin Classics, Ramée, Naxos and ECM. She has been leader of the Ensemble in Residence at Trigonale Festival several times, and has appeared at many other major early music festivals in Europe and the United States. Her first solo recording of the Swedish Baroque composer Johan Helmich Roman’s Assaggi for Solo Violin will be released by Rubicon Classics in April 2025.
Alison Luthmers is a founding member of the Bellevue String Quartet, Scandinavia’s only full-time period instrument quartet, which engages audiences through their unique, conceptual programs and intimate concert environment. A passion for creative programming also led to BookJam, where as artistic director Luthmers has organized a series of informal chamber music concerts at a bookstore in Malmö, Sweden.
As a two-time recipient of a grant from the Canada Council for the Arts, Alison Luthmers studied the connection between folk music, early music and dance in Scandinavia. She studied modern violin with Robert Lipsett at the Colburn School in Los Angeles, and Baroque violin with Peter Spissky and Arek Goliński in Copenhagen.
