# Sergiu Luca

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{{Short description|Romanian-born American violinist}}
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'''Sergiu Luca''' (4 April 1943, in [Bucharest](/source/Bucharest) – 6 December 2010, in [Houston](/source/Houston)) was a Romanian-born American violinist, renowned as an [early music](/source/early_music) pioneer; during his career he performed and recorded on both [baroque](/source/baroque_violin) and [modern](/source/violin) violins.

==Biography==
Sergiu Luca was born in [Bucharest](/source/Bucharest), [Romania](/source/Romania), but his family moved to [Israel](/source/Israel) at his age of 7, and as a 9 year old he debuted with the Haifa Symphony Orchestra. Before going to the United States to study at the [Curtis Institute](/source/Curtis_Institute) with [Ivan Galamian](/source/Ivan_Galamian), he studied in London and Switzerland.

His American debut was [Sibelius](/source/Sibelius)'s Violin Concerto with the [Philadelphia Orchestra](/source/Philadelphia_Orchestra) in 1965, on which occasion he was chosen by [Leonard Bernstein](/source/Leonard_Bernstein) to play its first movement with him conducting the [New York Philharmonic](/source/New_York_Philharmonic) later that year. During his career he recorded J. S. Bach's entire oeuvre for solo violin, the [Brandenburg Concertos](/source/Brandenburg_Concertos) (with [Pablo Casals](/source/Pablo_Casals)), and a portion of the [romantic](/source/romantic_music) and [20th-century](/source/20th-century_classical_music) repertoire.

In 1971 he launched the [Chamber Music Northwest](/source/Chamber_Music_Northwest) festival in [Portland, Oregon](/source/Portland%2C_Oregon), in 1983 he took the direction of Houston's Texas Chamber Orchestra which he held until 1986 when he founded the Cascade Head Music Festival on the [Oregon Coast](/source/Oregon_Coast), in 1988 he founded Da Camera Society of Houston.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Boyd |first1=Sydney |title=Creative Combinations: Sarah Rothenberg Looks Back at 25 Years with Da Camera |url=https://www.houstoniamag.com/arts-and-culture/2018/09/da-camera-sarah-rothenberg-richard-goode-wortham-center |website=Houstonia Magazine |access-date=17 November 2024 |date=26 September 2018}}</ref>  He was one of the founders of the Context chamber group. From 1983 until his death he was a professor in the [Shepherd School of Music](/source/Shepherd_School_of_Music) at [Rice University](/source/Rice_University).

He died of [cholangiocarcinoma](/source/cholangiocarcinoma) in [Houston](/source/Houston), Texas, at the age of 67.<ref>{{cite web |title=Sergiu Luca, Violinist Who Founded Music Festivals, Is Dead at 67 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/09/arts/music/09luca.html |publisher=New York Times |access-date=17 November 2024 |date=9 December 2010}}</ref> He survived by his wife, Susan Archibald and their daughter, Lily Luca (born in 2006).

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.oregonlive.com/performance/index.ssf/2010/12/sergiu_luca_founder_of_chamber.html]
* [https://pronetoviolins.blogspot.com/2011/02/luca.html]
* [https://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/09/arts/music/09luca.html Sergiu Luca's obituary] in [The New York Times](/source/The_New_York_Times)
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20110626092318/http://musicincontext.org/musicians_luca.htm]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20110908083511/http://music.rice.edu/facultybios/luca.shtml Biographical notes] at the [Rice University](/source/Rice_University) homepage
* [http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ent/7330589.html]
* [http://houston.culturemap.com/newsdetail/12-07-10-violin-virtuoso-and-houston-music-pioneer-sergiu-luca-dies/]
* [http://www.bruceduffie.com/luca.html Interview with Sergiu Luca], June 28, 1988

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Category:1943 births
Category:2010 deaths
Category:Musicians from Houston
Category:Musicians from Oregon
Category:Romanian emigrants to Israel
Category:Israeli violinists
Category:American male violinists
Category:Israeli emigrants to the United States
Category:Jewish violinists
Category:Rice University faculty
Category:20th-century American violinists
Category:20th-century American male musicians

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