Carmine Lauri was born in 1971 and started playing the violin at the age of four later studying with Mario Bisazza. In 1988 he was awarded the Associated Board scholarship to further his studies in London at the Royal Academy of Music with Jean Harvey, Maurice Hasson and other distinguished artists including Anne Sophie Mutter, Ida Haendel, Zakhar Bron and Gerald Poulet. Furthermore he achieved international recognition by winning various overseas prizes.
Carmine Lauri - Violin
Lauri has performed extensively and on a number of occasions he was selected to perform as a soloist in the presence of HM Queen Elizabeth II and other Heads of State. His two premiere performances of the Walton violin concerto with the Czech State Philharmonic Orchestra of Brno further enhanced his growing international reputation. As a representative of the London Symphony Orchestra, of which he is the Co-Leader, Carmine leads and performs regularly with the World Orchestra for Peace under Valery Gergiev.
Carmine Lauri has two solo compact disc recordings to his credit, Bravura (1994) and Violin Extravaganza (2004). He has also recorded the entire 2005-2007 violin syllabus of the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music. Lauri has led various orchestras including the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, the Orchestra of the Birmingham Royal Ballet, the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the London Symphony Orchestra, the Orquesta Municipal of Venezuela and the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra under such distinguished conductors as Lorin Maazel, Bernard Haitink, Sir Colin Davis, Antonio Pappano, Yan Pascal Tortellier, Edo de Waart, Riccardo Chailly, Pierre Boulez & Valery Gergiev. Carmine has also recorded with the LSO music scores of several movies, including Star Wars, Harry Potter, The Queen, Copying Beethoven & Sleuth (just to name a few) and is often the featured violin soloist in many films such as ‘As you like it’ and ‘Joyeux Nöel’
In December 2004 Lauri made his debut as soloist with the London Concert Orchestra in Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto in Symphony Hall Birmingham where he stepped in to replace another soloist at less than a day’s notice. In May 2005 he made his debut as soloist with the London Symphony Orchestra in a world premiere performance of the London Concerto by Huw Watkins and in December 2005 he made his debut with the London Philharmonic Orchestra playing the Bruch Violin Concerto, both at the Barbican in London. Other recent performances included the Beethoven Triple Concerto and Brahms Double Concerto with the National Orchestra of Malta and Orchestra of Pesaro, Italy. He has also given concerts with artists including cellists Lynn Harrell, Enrico Dindo, Mats Rondin & pianists Roberto Cominati & Igor Ardasev.
In July 2006, Carmine made his debut with the Municipal Orchestra of Venezuela in July 2006 where he was the soloist in Wieniawski’s Violin Concerto No.2. In July 2007 he performed the Brahms Double concerto with
Last October Carmine premiered the Violin Concerto ‘Rosalind’ by Harry Potter composer Patrick Doyle in a performance at the Royal Albert Hall in London with the LSO.
Carmine has also been invited on numerous occasions by the Musicians Benevolent Fund to join a panel of judges to adjudicate the final round of the Manoug Parikian Award and Royal Philharmonic Society Prize for young violinists held in London and this year was invited by the Royal Overseas League competition to be on the panel of judges. He has also been invited by the Royal Academy of Music in London to work with violinists in orchestral music workshops.
In 2004 Carmine was elected as Associate of the Royal Academy of Music (