Internationally acclaimed for her virtuosity (“Fiery virtuoso” — THE STRAD, “Verdadera violinista del diablo” — BAYERISCHE RUNDFUNK, “Superbement joué” — DIAPASON, “Echte Virtuosin” — RONDO), her uncommon musicality (“honest and heartfelt music-making” — GRAMOPHONE, “la violinista del alma” — SANKEI SHINBUN), and her unique blend of creativity (“grande habilité à ornamenter, véritable feu d’artifice” — CLASSICA), energy (“Lina shines” — SAN DIEGO TRIBUNE) and stylistic rigor (“streng historisierenden Spielweise” — RONDO, “palette de couleurs étendue, une rhétorique finement construite” — CLASSICA), Lina Tur Bonet has built a career as a violinist and conductor that is as versatile as it is personal.
Her love for music and inexhaustible curiosity lead her to perform and research a repertoire spanning more than 400 years of music, from Monteverdi to Kurtág, always on period instruments.
Particularly notable are her rediscoveries of previously unpublished music: Boccherini’s Op. 34 string trios, works by Leonardo Leo and Boxberg, solo violin works by Matteis, Wranitzki, Pisendel, Brunetti, Montali, Reynaldi, Felix Mendelssohn, and even two CDs dedicated to works by Antonio Vivaldi himself. She has also premiered several contemporary works dedicated to her by José María Sánchez Verdú, Mauricio Sotelo and Josep Maria Guix.
As a soloist, she performs throughout the world in venues such as Wigmore Hall, Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, the St. Petersburg Philharmonic, the Potsdam Festival, the Weimar Bach Biennale, the Thuringia Festival, the Halle Handel Festival, Trigonale Klagenfurt, the Leipzig Bach Festival, the Seoul Arts Center, Tokyo’s Musashino Hall, as well as in Israel, New York, Montreal Baroque, Vienna’s Musikverein and Konzerthaus, throughout South America and Australia.
Lina regularly appears as a soloist with orchestra, performing concertos and works by Vivaldi, Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Ravel, Chausson, Mendelssohn, Bartók and Piazzolla with both chamber and symphony orchestras.
Her recording of Corelli’s Op. V with her own ornamentation was selected as the “top recommended version” among all existing recordings by BBC Radio 3’s Building a Library. Her recording of Biber’s Rosary Sonatas was described as “benchmark” by Gramophone, France Musique and Scherzo. Her recordings of previously unpublished Vivaldi concertos and sonatas have also been recommended by Bayerische Rundfunk, SWR, Radio Berlin, and Spanish and Austrian radio stations. She received the Crescendo Joker award for La Bellezza and won two GEMA awards for Best Recording in 2015 and 2018. Luister awarded her Ravel CD a 10/10 rating. She has twice received the Diapason d’Or, for her album La Belleza and for the CD Biber Sonatas 1681. Her recording was awarded Best Chamber Music Album of the Year 2022 by Record Geijutsu, often regarded as the Japanese equivalent of the Grammy Awards. She also received the CHOC de Classica award for her CD of Bach violin concertos.
She regularly conducts ensembles and orchestras such as Tafelmusik Toronto, Recreation Styriarte Graz, Barokkanerne Oslo, Orchestre de Chambre Toulouse, the Seville Baroque Orchestra, the Montreal Festival Orchestra, the Jerusalem Baroque Orchestra, Camerata Villa Musica Mainz, Haydn Philharmonie Eisenstadt, the Granada City Orchestra, among many others.
She studied at the Universities of Freiburg and Vienna, and from a very young age collaborated with many of the most renowned ensembles in baroque, romantic and contemporary music (Les Musiciens du Louvre, Les Arts Florissants, Mahler Chamber Orchestra and Orchestra Mozart Bologna under the direction of Abbado, Harding, Gardiner, Clemencic, Minkowski, Christie, Currentzis, Gatti…), performing at the Sydney Opera House, Lincoln Center, Bunkamura Hall, the BBC Proms and the Berlin Philharmonie. She has received awards at several international competitions, including the Bonporti Prize.
She is currently Professor of Baroque Violin and Viola at the Franz Liszt Hochschule für Musik in Weimar and concertmaster of Le Concert des Nations alongside Jordi Savall.
