Luther Warren

About Luther

Violinist and violist Luther Warren enjoys a varied career as a chamber musician and educator. Luther is a founding member and violist of ensemble132, a chamber-music collective whose work centers on presenting original arrangements of familiar works together with standard repertoire. Luther also performs regularly with LA-based chamber orchestra Delirium Musicum. As an educator, Luther has served as violin and viola instructor for New England Conservatory’s Preparatory School and Expanded Education divisions, Merrimack College, Thayer Academy, and the Performing Arts Center of MetroWest. He also acts as junior chamber music faculty at the Heifetz International Music Institute. Luther has presented masterclasses and teaching residencies at East Carolina University, University of Houston, Queens College, and Texas Christian University.

Luther has appeared at such festivals as Caramoor, Ravinia, Yellow Barn, Four Seasons, Olympic Music Festival, the Perlman Music Program Chamber Music Workshop, Prussia Cove Open Chamber Music, Menuhin Festival Gstaad, Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, Music from Angel Fire, and Taos School of Music. He has performed with esteemed artists including Itzhak Perlman, Kim Kashkashian, Donald Weilerstein, Miriam Fried, Marcy Rosen, David Shifrin, Colin Carr, Ani Kavafian, Ida Kavafian, Daniel Phillips, Steven Tenenbom, and Hsin-Yun Huang. He has also frequently appeared as substitute violist for the Borromeo String Quartet. Luther has a keen interest in new music, and has collaborated with living composers Steven Mackey, Billy Childs, Gabriella Smith, Joan Tower, Aaron Jay Kernis, James MacMillan, Lior Navok, Kati Agocs, and Ethan Chaves.

Luther holds graduate degrees from the New England Conservatory where he has worked with Kim Kashkashian, Donald Weilerstein, and Miriam Fried. Additional principal mentors have included Erin Keefe and Mimi Zweig.