Carmine Lauri

Co-Leader

Member since 1997, Visiting Professor at the Royal Academy of Music, Playing a Stradivari violin kindly loaned by Anna Goldman FV, Chair endowed in loving memory of the conductor Yuri Ahronovitch by his wife, Tami

My uncle, who played the violin as an amateur and lived next door to us, used to come and play the violin in my house and at the age of two I used to imitate him playing with just a pair of wooden spoons. That’s how it started. I played my first concert with the LSO in September 1993 after finishing my studies at RAM and became a member in 1997. I became the Co-Leader in 2001.

Maltese violinist Carmine Lauri started playing the violin at the age of four and at 17 was awarded the ABRSM scholarship to study at the Royal Academy of Music with Maurice Hasson. Carmine has performed worldwide as a soloist and leads various orchestras, including the LSO. He is also the Concertmaster of the Oxford Philharmonic and the Guest Leader of the Malta Philharmonic. He features in numerous movie scores, including Star Wars and Harry Potter and is often the featured violin soloist in various films.

Carmine has performed concertos with orchestras including the LSO, London Philharmonic, both the Czech Philharmonic and Czech State Philharmonic Brno, Oxford Philharmonic and Armenian State Symphony Orchestra conducted by numerous renowned conductors. He was bestowed an ARAM and FRAM (Royal Academy of Music). He is a member of the National Order of Merit and is the recipient of the Gold Medal for Arts 2015. He performs on a violin made by Nicholas Lupot, ca 1768.