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"Skou-Larsen directed the nuances in Bruckner with such import and tenderness that you could feel a drama unfold with each measure" Washington Post Lavard Skou-Larsen was born in Porto Alegre, Brazil as the son of the violinist Perly and the conductor Gunnar Skou-Larsen. He first received violin lessons at the age of four from his father Gunnar, and had extra tuition from Professor Ernst Moravec in Vienna. He was admitted to the Academy of Music and Performing Arts Mozarteum in Salzburg aged fourteen to study with Professor Dr. Helmut Zehetmair, and gained a performance diploma with distinction. He later completed a postgraduate diploma under Sandor Végh. Lavard Skou-Larsen has won prizes both as soloist and as chamber musician, including the "Concertino Prague and the "Sergio Lorenzi" in Triest. He was a member of the Camerata Academica under Sandor Végh from 1983 to 1986. He has been teaching violin at the Mozarteum/Salzburg since 1991, the same year he founded the Salzburg Chamber Soloists. From 1996 to 2002 he was appointed artistic director of the European Union Chamber Orchestra. As a soloist he appeared in such important concert halls as the Konzerthaus, Vienna; Grosser Saal des Mozarteums, Salzburg; Champs Élysée, Paris; Beethovenhalle, Bonn; Philharmonie, Köln; Alte Oper, Frankfurt; Tonhalle, Zurich; Victoria Hall, Geneva; Elizabethzaal, Anvers; Concertgebouw, Amsterdam; Teatro Colon, Buenos Aires; Concert Hall, Birmingham; Opera, Kairo; Katchaturian Hall, Yerewan; and others. In 1997, he and pianist Alexander Müllenbach released the first ever recordings of the Brazilian composer Camargo M. Guarnieri's complete violin sonatas for Marco Polo. Introduced by his father Gunnar and inspired by Sergio Celibidache, Lavard Skou-Larsen started his conducting activities. In 1978 he won the first prize at Austria's music competition Jugend Musiziert, conducting a local orchestra. Since then Lavard Skou-Larsen has been invited to conduct leading symphony and chamber orchestras in Europe, and South and North America, including the European Union Chamber Orchestra, Sinfonietta Amsterdam, Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, Deutsche Kammerakademie Neuss, Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra, North West Philharmony Herford, Folkwang Kammerorchester Essen, Orchestra Internazionale d'Italia, Orchestre de Chambre de Geneve, Orchestre des Pays de Savoie, Erasmus Chamber Orchestra, Orchestra Sinfonica de Porto Alegre, Orquestra Sinfonica Cuidad de Almeria, River Oaks Chamber Orchestra Houston, and many others. Since 2004 he has been acclaimed chief conductor of the Deutsche Kammerakademie Neuss am Rhein. 2008 - please destroy all previous versions

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