Luiz Filipe Coelho

Luiz Filipe Coelho (born November 14, 1984) is a Brazilian violinist.

Biography

He began his violin education at age 4 in Escola Fukuda de São Paulo, having as a teacher the violinist Elisa Fukuda. At age 12 won awards in several national competitions in the cities of Juíz de Fora-MG, Piracicaba-SP and Rio de Janeiro-RJ. At age 16 during the 32nd Winter Festival of Campos do Jordão Luiz Filipe was granted with a scholarship by the State of São Paulo and later received a 4 year scholarship granted by Vitae Foundation to continue his education in Berlin, Germany where he still lives.

In Berlin was a student of violinist Ulf Wallin in Hochschule für Musik “Hanns Eisler ” Berlin and later in the Royal College of Stockholm in Sweden. In 2004 was a student of the violinist Zakhar Bron in the College of Music Pitea, Sweden.

In 2007 studied with the spalla of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, the Israeli violinist Guy Braunstein, at Universität der Künste Berlin, where graduated in the 2008 class of violinist Axiel Gerhardt.

Between the year of 2007 and 2008 had a Karajan-Akademie fellowship in the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra where had the opportunity to play in concerts with some of the most accomplished conductors like Simon Rattle, Daniel Barenboim, Seiji Ozawa, Pierre Boulez.

At the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben competition of Hamburg received as a temporary loan a rare violin made by the luthier Lorenzo Storioni, Cremona, 1774, which he still plays.

Recorded in 2008 a CD with the some of Bach’s work with the Berlin Academic Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of the conductor Reinhard Goebel in this recording Filipe was the soloist of Bach’s Double Violin Concerto.

Also in 2008 he made the first DVD recording of the Three Concertos for Violin and Orchestra by the Brazilian composer Camargo Guarnieri with the Symphonic Orchestra of the city of São Paulo conducted by Lutero Rodrigues.

Awards

  • Henry Marteau Competition, Germany, 2002 – Best execution of Mozart’s work 1
  • 37th Tibor Varga Competition, Swisstherland, 2003 – 3rd place - 2
  • Gerhard-Taschner Competition, Berlin, 2004 – 1st place – 3
  • Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben, 2007-2008 - 4

Discography

CD

  • Brazilian Contemporary Music: Edmundo Villani-Côrtes, Luiz Filipe (violin) and Paul Rivinius (piano), Selo Discoteca Oneyda Alvarenga, 2006 DOAMCB03
  • Johann Sebastian Bach: Konzert d-Moll für zwei violinen-Brandenburgische Ionzert Nr. 2,3,6. Orchester-Akademie der Berliner Philharmoniker – Leitung: Reinhard Goebel. Live-Mitschnitt eines Konzertes am 10.02.2008 im Kammermusiksaal der Berliner Philhamonie.

DVD

  • Camargo Guarnieri 3 Concertos para Violino e Orquestra – DOAMCB06

OSM Orquestra Sinfônica Municipal de São Paulo

Lutero Rodrigues, conductor

Luiz Filipe, soloist

Selo CCSP, 2008

Lua Music 324

  • Festverantalgung zum 150.Geburtstag von Max Planck – Gravado ao vivo na Konzerthaus Berlin Gendarmenmarkt (26.04.2008). Stipendiaten der Orchester-Akademie der Berliner Philharmoniker e V. Luiz Filipe e Simon Roturier (violinos), Robin Hong (viola) Ruslan Vielnsky (violoncelo).

Franz Schubert – Sterichquartet Nr. 13 a-Moll “Rosamunde” (D 804)