The Bellevue String Quartet Release November 20, 2026
Alison Luthmers
Violin
Praised for “her light bowing, impeccable intonation and carefully inflected shaping of the line” (Robin Stowell, The Strad), Canadian-American Baroque violinist Alison Luthmers enjoys a thriving career as leader, soloist and chamber musician.
She performs regularly with Concerto Copenhagen and Camerata Øresund, and has appeared as guest concertmaster of Höör Barock, Barokkanerne, Eslövs Kammarorkester, Nivalis Barokk, HemiDemiSemi Consort and Jönköpings Sinfonietta. As a member of these ensembles she has recorded for Da Capo, Channel Classics, Berlin Classics, Naxos, ECM, Ramée and Rubicon. Her first solo album, of the Swedish Baroque composer Johan Helmich Roman’s Assaggi for Solo Violin was released by Rubicon Classics in April 2025. She was selected as "Artist of the Season" for Fall 2025 on Swedish Radio P2's Sunday Morning program. She began her Baroque violin studies with Alice Blankenship and went on to study modern violin with Robert Lipsett at the Colburn School in Los Angeles, and Baroque violin with Peter Spissky and Arek Goliński in Copenhagen.