Lorenz Nasturica-Herschcowici

Born in Bucharest in 1962. Studied violin with Stefan Georgiu at the Ciprian Porumbescu Conservatory in Bucharest (graduating with honours in 1985).

From 1986 to 1992, he was the first concertmaster of the Finnish National Opera Orchestra. From 1992 to 2022, he was the first concertmaster of the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra. In 2000, he became the first violinist of the Berlin Philharmonic Octet. He has performed as a violinist, soloist and concertmaster with the Berlin Philharmonic Virtuosi, the Berlin Philharmonic Soloists Sextet and the Deutsche Sinfonietta Berlin. In 2013, he became the head of the Mariinsky Theatre’s Stradivari Ensemble, founded on the initiative of Valery Gergiev in 2009. From 2004 to 2022, he headed the Munich Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra, with which he gave numerous concerts in various countries around the world. Since 2022, he has been conducting the Münchner Virtuosen chamber orchestra, which he founded.

From 2014 to 2017, he was a professor of violin at the Higher School of Music of the Basque Country (San Sebastian). From 2011 to 2019, he taught at the Sanzoku Gakuen Music College in Tokyo. He is a visiting professor at the San Sebastian Conservatory.

He has performed with such outstanding conductors as Valery Gergiev, Sergiu Celibidache, Christian Thielemann, Lorin Maazel and Zubin Mehta, and such renowned soloists as Hélène Grimaud, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Nikolai Sheps-Znaider, David Fray, Martin Stadtfeld, Vadim Repin, Nikolai Lugansky, Daniil Trifonov, Alexander Kantorov and others.