Virginia Luca

Virginia graduated in violin and viola from the Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi di Torino and later obtained a Master of Arts in Music Performance from the Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana in Lugano, in the class of Maestro Yuval Gotlibovich. She further refined her studies with Maestro Bruno Giuranna at the Accademia W. Stauffer in Cremona, with Maestros Enrico Carraro and Armando Barilli at the APM in Saluzzo, and with violists Ula Ulijona Žebriūnaitė, Pierre-Henri Xuereb, Danusha Waskiewicz, Paul Cortese, and Lawrence Dutton.

In 2013, together with violinist Mariechristine Lopez and cellist Fabio Fausone, she founded the Trio Quodlibet, with whom she further specialized in chamber music at the Accademia W. Stauffer in Cremona under the guidance of the Quartetto di Cremona, and at the Jeunesses Musicales Deutschland courses in Weikersheim. The trio also worked with the Belcea Quartet, Cuarteto Casals, Vogler Quartet, Heime Müller, Hariolf Schlichtig, Rudens Turku, Bruno Giuranna, and Dirk Mommertz. The Trio Quodlibet is now an established professional ensemble, regularly performing at major concert seasons and international festivals, and collaborating with artists such as Andrea Rebaudengo and Rudens Turku. Since 2016, they have been the first string trio to join the “Le Dimore del Quartetto” network, which continues to support them.

In 2012, she won the “Crescendo in Musica” scholarship awarded by the Orchestra Filarmonica di Torino and the CRT Foundation, thanks to which she performed with the Filarmonica string section and as a soloist. In 2015 she received a scholarship from the Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana in Lugano. In 2017, with the Trio Quodlibet, she received the “Lili Comparini” scholarship awarded by Dr. Comparini in collaboration with Le Dimore del Quartetto. In 2018 she received the “Obiettivo Orchestra” scholarship from the Filarmonica del Teatro Regio di Torino, and with the Trio Quodlibet a scholarship from the Rotary Club of Cremona.

In 2009 she won the audition for the National Orchestra of Italian Conservatories. With the Trio Quodlibet she won First Prize at the European Chamber Music Competition in Moncalieri (2016), Second Prize “Tina Anguissola Scotti” at the Valtidone International Chamber Music Competition, and the Jury Special Prize at the Coop Musica Awards Competition in Cremona; in 2018 they won Second Prize at the Massimiliano Antonelli Chamber Music Competition in Latina. The trio also received the Diploma of Honor at the Accademia Chigiana in Siena for two consecutive years.

Virginia collaborates as an orchestral musician with the Orchestra da Camera di Mantova, the Orchestra e Filarmonica del Teatro Regio di Torino, the Filarmonica di Torino, I Pomeriggi Musicali, the Orchestra Sinfonica di Sanremo, the Orchestra Milano Classica, the Orchestra Cherubini, and the Orchestre des Hautes Alpes Françaises. Since 2017 she has also collaborated with the contemporary music ensemble Sentieri Selvaggi under the direction of Carlo Boccadoro.

Since November 2022 she has been a viola professor at the Conservatorio G. Stanislao in Cosenza.

Virginia will participate in Trame Sonore 2026 as a soloist, as a member of the Trio Quodlibet, and as part of the Orchestra da Camera di Mantova.