Informations
Facts
Born in São Paulo, Brazil
Member since 01.09.2012
Biography
Luiz Felipe Coelho began playing the violin at the age of four. He received his first lessons in his home town of São Paulo from Elisa Fukuda. He later continued his education in Europe: in 2001, he became a student of Ulf Wallin at the Academy of Music Hanns Eisler Berlin, and from 2004 to 2005, he studied at the School of Music in Piteå, Sweden. He then returned to Berlin to attend the University of the Arts to finish his studies with Guy Braustein and Axel Gerhardt. In 2008, he passed his concert exam there with distinction.
In 2007 and 2008, Luiz Felipe Coelho was a member of the Orchestra Academy of the Berliner Philharmoniker. From 2009, he had short-term contracts playing in the first and second violin sections before becoming a regular member of the Berliner Philharmoniker in 2012. Luiz Felipe Coelho has won the German Musical Instruments Fund competition of the German Foundation for Musical Life several times, and since February 2007 has played a Lornezo Storioni Cremona violin from 1774, owned by the Federal Republic of Germany.
Awards
Multiple wins of the German Musical Instruments Fund competition (2007–2012)
First Prize of the Gerhard-Taschner violin competition (2004)
Third Prize of the Concours International de Violon Tibor Varga (2003)
Ensembles of the Berliner Philharmoniker
Philharmonic String Quintet
Ensemble Berlin
Philharmonic Camerata
Berlin Philharmonic Virtuosi
