Music Department Faculty

Richard Luby
Professor

Office: 105 Person Hall
Email: rluby@unc.edu
Phone: 919-962-3763

Richard Luby (Professor) holds a D.M.A. from the Yale School of Music, an M.M. from the Juilliard School of Music, and a B.M. from the Curtis Institute of Music. His career extends from Baroque and Classical music on historical instruments through the newest repertoire for modern violin. Formerly on the faculty of the Eastman School of Music and a 1991 Visiting Professor at the New England Conservatory of Music, at UNC he teaches violin, is co-founder and co-director of the original instrument Ensemble Courant, and performs with the resident contemporary music ensemble 27514.

Mr. Luby has appeared as soloist with the Orquesta Sinfónica de Xalapa of Mexico, National Radio Orchestra of Poland, the Rochester Philharmonic, the North Carolina Symphony, the National Symphony, the Philadelphia Orchestra, and the Detroit Symphony. He has given recitals of the complete works for violin and piano of Ives, Prokofiev, Brahms, and Stravinsky, as well as the Sonatas for violin and harpsichord of J.S. Bach. Mr. Luby has been a featured artist with numerous period instrument ensembles, including Concert Royal, the Folger Consort, and the Mozartean Chamber Players. His recording credits include two sets of Haydn Trios on the Arabesque label, Bach Concerti on Society Records, and Bach Sonatas and Partitas for Unaccompanied Baroque Violin, recorded for BBC broadcast by Meridian Records. Mr. Luby has performed throughout the world as a member of the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century of Amsterdam, and as conductor/soloist with orchestras in Spain, Mexico, Cuba, and the United States. He has been a guest clinician at universities and conservatories throughout the United States and Mexico, Spain and Cuba. In spring semester 2000, Luby was a Chapman Fellow and Guest Professor at Universidad Veracruzana in Xalapa, Mexico.

Since 1985 Mr. Luby has performed the Sonatas and Partitas of J.S.Bach on Baroque violin to widespread critical acclaim at the Wigmore Hall in London, Merkin Hall in New York, and throughout the United States, Europe, and Latin America. In January 2000 Mr. Luby presented a solo Bach recital at the Chopin Academy, Warsaw, Poland.

Mr. Luby plays several historically important violins: a Brothers Amati violin made in Cremonia, Italy in 1623 and restored to Baroque configuration, and a Michelangelo Bergonzi made in Cremona in 1757

email address: rluby@unc.edu