About

The violinist Luiza Labouriau was born to a Danish-Brazilian family of scientific humanists, growing up in Denmark and now living in Berlin, Germany. As a five-year old child she chose the violin as her instrument herself after having heard two pieces: Peter and the Wolf by Prokofiev (who wouldn’t want to be like the brave Peter!) and Rimsky-Korsakovs beautiful tone-poem “Sheherezade” (after having asked for a harp, her farther managed to convince her to choose the more practically convenient violin…).

Fanatically searching for every possible way to get in touch with the world of classical music, Luiza got through most of the standard chamber music repertoire for octet, sextet, trio and string-duos in her teens and even managed to win a couple of prizes in the danish national youth-competitions “Berlingske Klassiske Musikkonkurence” and “Jakob Gade Violinkonkurrence”.

As she moved to Copenhagen in 2019 to study at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen Luiza had the chance to discover the worlds of contemporary music, modern art, baroque interpretation, literature, music theory, philosophy, conducting, history and teaching… and everything that connects this with her beloved instrument, the violin. After finishing her Bachelor studies in Denmark, she got accepted as a Master student to the class of Professor Mark Gothoni at the University of Arts in Berlin in 2013 and from 2015 at the Solo Master program.

The early developed passion for chamber music led to many different collaborations through her career so far - among others the founding of the inter-artistic, experimental chamber orchestra „Impulsia“, based in Berlin and the group “Duo Fidelio”, with whom she won the second prize in the International Chamber Music Competition Pinerolo e Torino Cittá Metropolitana in March 2018.

Luiza played professionally in various of the famous Berlin orchestras, among others the radio orchestra “Deutsche Symphonie-Orchester Berlin” where she won the position as an orchestra “academist” for the season 2015/16, in the National German Opera (Deutsche Oper), where she played on contract in the first-violin group from 2016-2017 and as a concertmaster in various chamber orchestras.

Her wish for the future is to discover even more ways to connect the different arts, the younger and older generations, the audience to the musicians, the musicians to each others and human emotions to time.