Lukas Stepp

Lukas Stepp has been concertmaster of the 2nd violins of the Staatskapelle Dresden since the beginning of 2019.

He received the most important impulses for his violin playing from Stephan Picard and Feng Ning at the Hanns Eisler School of Music Berlin and from Ida Kavafian at the Juilliard School of Music in New York from 2016 to 2018.

Lukas Stepp is a multiple first prize winner and special prize winner of the national competition ‘Jugend musiziert’. He has won further prizes as a soloist at international competitions such as the Johannes Brahms Competition (2010), the ‘Julio Cardona’ competition in Portugal (2011) and the ‘Schoenfeld International String Competition’ (Harbin/China 2014).

Lukas Stepp has performed as a soloist with the Stuttgart Philharmonic Orchestra, the Carinthian Symphony Orchestra, the Young Ensemble Berlin, the Baden-Württemberg State Youth Orchestra, the Hildesheim State Theatre, the Baden Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra and the Hamburg Camerata, among others.

Lukas Stepp was first violinist of the ‘Stepp Quartet’, which performed at festivals such as the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, the Rheingau Music Festival and the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival between 2001 and 2012.