Supported by the Rotary Club, the Gautier Capuçon Foundation, and the Safran Foundation, Luka Ispir is a laureate of several international competitions: 1st prize at the Rotary Club Soloist Prize, 3rd prize at the Moroccan Philharmonic Orchestra Competition, Grand Prize from the Safran Foundation, 2nd prize and two special prizes at the Vittorio Veneto International Competition…
At the age of 5, he began playing the violin at the Rouen Regional Conservatory. After two years at the Boulogne-Billancourt Regional Conservatory with Christophe Poiget, he was admitted at the age of 16 to the Paris National Conservatory of Music and Dance under Olivier Charlier. He continued his musical studies at the Hanns Eisler School in Berlin in Stephan Picard's class before furthering his training as an Artist in Residence at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel with Augustin Dumay, pursuing a Master's degree at the Lausanne University of Music with Renaud Capuçon, and completing advanced studies at the Perosi Academy with Silvia Marcovici.
In 2025, he joined the Trio Hélios, with whom he has performed at numerous festivals in France and abroad. He also participated in the creation of the Trio Philia between 2017 and 2020. Luka is regularly invited as a soloist and has performed with the Normandy Orchestra, the Appassionato Orchestra, the Bilkent Symphony Orchestra, the New Europe Orchestra, the Moroccan Philharmonic Orchestra, the Nouvelles Portées Ensemble, the Orchestra of the Accademia di La Scala in Milan, the Hagen Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Le Havre Symphony Orchestra. He has also been invited to perform at the Jaroussky Academy, the Kronberg Academy, the Auvers-sur-Oise Festival, the Salle Cortot Chamber Music Center in Paris, the Pablo Casals Festival, the Menuhin Festival, the Ravel Festival, the Evian Musical Encounters, the Opus Amadeus Festival, the Giverny Festival, and the Hague Festival.
Luka Ispir is a laureate of the Gautier Capuçon Foundation, thanks to which he recorded a duo album with his cellist brother, Léo Ispir, on the Warner Classics/Erato label. In January 2025, the Ispir brothers also recorded an album accompanied by the ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra Vienna, conducted by Howard Griffiths on the Berlin Classics label.
Luka Ispir plays a violin by the luthier Pressenda, generously loaned by the Michael Guttman Collection.