Bohdan Luts

Bohdan Luts was born in Lviv in 2004. He was a student at the International Menuhin Music Academy in Switzerland where he studied with Professor Oleg Kaskiv, Guillaume Chilemme and Renaud Capuçon, and regularly participated in masterclasses with Gábor Takács-Nagy, Pinchas Zukerman, and Ivan Vukčević, among others. Currently, he is studying at the Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna in the class of Professor Boris Kuschnir.

A major success in his career came in 2023, when, at the age of 18, he won the First Prize at the prestigious Long-Thibaud International Violin Competition, as well as the Audience Prize, Press Jury Prize, and French Republican Guard Orchestra Prize. Previously, in 2022, at the age of 17, he also won the First Prize at the Carl Nielsen International Competition in Denmark.

He has performed at international festivals and concerts across Europe, including in Switzerland, Finland, France, and Italy. As a soloist, he has appeared with the Copenhagen Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra, and the Lviv National Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, among others.

Stage One

H. Wieniawski – La Cadenza, Op. 10 No. 7

H. Wieniawski – Polonaise de Concert in D major, Op. 4

E. Ysaÿe – Sonata for Solo Violin in G minor, Op. 27 No. 1

[Pianist: Olga Sitkovetsky]

Stage Two

S. Prokofiev –Sonata No. 1 in F minor, Op. 80

C. Saint-Saëns – Étude in the form of a Waltz, Op. 52 No. 6 (by E. Ysaÿe)

K. Szymanowski – Romance, Op. 23

Stage Three

A. Panufnik – Violin Concerto

Stage Four

A. Dvořák – Violin Concerto in A minor, Op. 53

Final

H. Wieniawski – Violin Concerto No. 2 in D minor, Op. 22