Emil Luxemburg

Emil Luxemburg is an American conductor, violinist, violist, and music educator.
Education
Emil Luxemburg is a graduate of the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance (M.M. in Orchestral conducting) and of the Academy of Music, Theatre, and Fine Arts in Moldova, in the former USSR, with a double major in orchestral conducting and music pedagogy.
Emil is the son of famous composer Arkady Luxemburg.
He was born in Chisinau, Moldova, where he began to play violin when he was six years old.
He attended a special school for music where he studied violin as his primary instrument and piano as his secondary instrument as well as music theory and music history.
He continued his musical studies at the Music College, where he studied violin with Victoria Neaga, viola with F. Balan, and chamber music with O. Shraiberman.
Upon receiving his BA in Violin and Viola performance, he emigrated to West where he continued his career as a musician and music educator.
He worked at the Tikvateinu Orchestra, Lambs Players Theatre. He toured with Lux Ensemble music group in the Middle East, Romania, Israel, and the US.
Luxemburg has conducted the Rachmaninov Lyceum orchestra as well as the Greenbaum Orchestra, additionally appearing in several solo and chamber music recitals in the United States and Europe.
He is also one of the founding members of the Lux Ensemble music group.
Selected Repertory List
Symphonies
J. Haydn - Symphony No. 94, G-Major: “Surprise”; J. Haydn - Symphony No. 85, B-Major: "La Reine"; W.A. Mozart - Symphony No. 36, C-Major, KV 425: "Linz"; W.A. Mozart - Symphony No. 39, D-Major, KV 543; W.A. Mozart - Symphony No. 40, G-Minor, op. 550; L. van Beethoven - Symphony No. 1, C-Major, op. 21; L. van Beethoven - Symphony No. 2, D-Major, op. 36; L. van Beethoven - Symphony No. 7 in A-Major, op. 92; L. van Beethoven - Symphony No. 8 in F-Major, op. 93; F. Schubert - Symphony No. 5 in B flat-Major; F. Schubert - Symphony No. 8 in B-Minor, “Unfinished”; P.I. Tchaikovsky - Symphony No. 1, G-minor; S. S. Prokofiev Symphony No. 1 in D-Major op. 25; S. S. Prokofiev Symphony No. 7 in C-sharp-Minor op. 131.
Overtures
W.A. Mozart - Overture from the opera “Barbiere di Siviglia"; W.A. Mozart - Overture from the opera “Le nozze di Figaro”; G. Rossini - Overture from the opera “La Gazza Ladra”; G. Verdi - Overture from the opera “La Traviata”; F. Mendelssohn - Overture “Die Hebriden”, R. Wagner Overture from the opera "Tannhauser"; P. I. Tchaikovsky - Fantasy-Overture "Romeo and Juliet".
Suites and other pieces
P. I. Tchaikovsky - Serenade for string Orchestra; T. Albinoni “Adagio” for strings in G-minor; A. Schnitke - Suite “In the Old style”; G. Holst - St. Paul’s Suite No. 2 Op. 29; A. Luxemburg Suite for String orchestra No. 1 in D-Major; A. Luxemburg Suite for String orchestra No. 2 in A-Minor; A. Luxemburg Concerto for Piano and orchestra No. 2 in C-major; A. Luxemburg Fantasy
for Piano and String orchestra No. 1 in A-minor; A. Vivaldi Sinfonia No.1 in C-major; A. Vivaldi Sinfonia No.2 in G-major. Various chamber works by Mozart, Haydn, Vivaldi etc.
Operas and Ballets
Fragments from the Operas: G. Verdi -“Aida”; G. Verdi -“Traviata” W.A. Mozart - “Le nozze di Figaro”; P.I. Tchaikovsky - Ballet “Nutcracker”

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