Bogdan Luts was born in 2004 in Lviv. He studied at the Mykola Lysenko Kyiv State Music Lyceum (in Olga Korinets’s class) and at the Solomiya Krushelnytska Lviv State Music Lyceum (in Maria Futorska’s class).
Bogdan is a graduate of the International Menuhin Music Academy in Switzerland (studying under Professors Oleg Kaskiv, Guillaume Schillem, and Renaud Capuçon).
He is currently studying at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (Austria) in the class of Professor Boris Kushnir.
He is a laureate of numerous international competitions. In 2023, at the age of 18, he won First Prize at the 2023 Long-Thibaud International Violin Competition, one of the most challenging international music competitions.
His achievements include First Prize at the Carl Nielsen International Competition (Denmark, 2022); Second Prize at the Il piccolo violino magico International Competition (Italy, 2018); Third Prize at the Lipizer International Violin Competition (Italy, 2020); First Prizes and four special awards at the III/V International Contests for Young Violinists “I’ll Be a Virtuoso” (Poland, 2015, 2017); Third Prize at the X International A. Grumio Violin Competition (Belgium, 2017); Grand Prix and First Prize at the “Lviv Virtuoso” International Competition (Ukraine, 2017); Grand Prix and First Prize, as well as Second Prize at two editions of the Bohdan Warchal International Competition “Talents for Europe” (Slovakia, 2014, 2016); Second Prize at the XLVII International Kocian Violin Competition (Czech Republic, 2015).
He has participated in master classes led by renowned musicians and teachers—Pinchas Zukerman (Israel/U.S.), Serhiy Ostrovsky (Switzerland), Renaud Capuçon (France), Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider (Poland), Gabor Takacz-Nagy (Hungary), Liviu Prunaru (Denmark), Igor Ostrovsky, Pablo de Naverán (Spain), Ivan Vukcevic (Serbia), Baiba Skride (Latvia), and Jean-Jacques Kantorow (France).
The musician has performed in Switzerland, Finland, France, Italy, Slovakia, and Ukraine. He has performed with the Copenhagen Symphony Orchestra, the Odense Symphony Orchestra, the Košice Symphony Orchestra (Slovakia), the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra, the Lviv National Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, the chamber orchestras “Lviv Virtuosi” and “Trembita,” the INSO-Lviv Symphony Orchestra, and the National Ensemble of Soloists “Kyiv Camerata.”
The violinist performed at a concert marking the 70th anniversary of the founding of the United Nations.
Since 2019, he has received grant support from the VERE MUSIC FUND.