Lukas Stepp, violin

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Born 1989 in Stuttgart, Germany, Lukas Stepp has appeared as violinist with chamber music groups at festivals throughout Germany and has won prizes in competitions including the Klassikpreis Munster, Concertino Praga, Charles Hennen Concours, the youth prize of the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, Brahms Competition, Portugal’s Competition Julio Cardona, and at the Schoenfeld String Competition in Harbin in China. As a soloist he performed with the Kaerntener Symphoniker, Macau Youth Orchestra, Youth Orchestra of Baden-Wurttemberg, Stuttgarter Philharmoniker, and Staatsorchester Hildesheim. He was a 2016 graduate of the Hanns Eisler University of Music Berlin where he studied with Feng Ning and Stephan Picard. Later on he studied violin in the master’s program at The Juilliard School with Ida Kavafian. Since 2019 Lukas Stepp serves as principal second violinist at the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden. Furthermore he is cofounder of the new concert series Klassik Novum.