Myron Lutzke

cello

Myron Lutzke is well known to audiences as a performer on both period and modern violincello. He studied at Brandeis University and is a graduate of The Juilliard School, where he was a student of Leonard Rose and Harvey Shapiro.

He now serves as principal cellist of numerous orchestras and a chamber player with ensembles touring throughout the world. He is principal cellist of the Orchestra of St. Luke's, the Handel & Haydn Society Orchestra of Boston, the New York Collegium and American Classical Orchestra and is a member of the St. Luke's Chamber Ensemble, Mozartean Players, the Aulos Ensemble, Loma Mar Quartet and the Bach Ensemble. He has performed with Aston Magna and was a faculty member at their academy. For the last twenty summers Mr. Lutzke has been an artist-in-residence at the Caramoor International Music Festival and has appeared as soloist at the Caramoor, Ravinia, Tanglewood, and Mostly Mozart Festivals.

He has recorded for Decca, Sony, Harmonia Mundi, EMI, Nonesuch, Musical Heritage Society, Deutsche Grammophon, Dorian, Denon and Arabesque labels. Mr. Lutzke is currently on the faculties of SUNY-Purchase and Mannes College of Music, where he teaches baroque 'cello and performance practice and has taught at the Brixen-Initiative Academy in Italy.

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