Bruno Lunkes joined City Music Cleveland in 2022.

A native of Brazil, he holds a Bachelor of Music degree from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, where he studied with Hella Frank and Fredi Gerling, and both a Master of Music and a Doctor of Musical Arts degrees from Texas Tech University, where he was a teaching assistant to Annie Chalex Boyle.

While still an undergraduate student, Bruno won a full time position with the Caxias do Sul Symphony in Brazil, while also performing regularly with the Theatro São Pedro Chamber Orchestra and the Unisinos Anchieta Orchestra. In the US, he has performed with the symphonies of Akron, Firelands, Mansfield, Lubbock, Amarillo, West Texas, Big Spring, the ballets of Lubbock, Midland, and San Angelo, the Lubbock Chamber Orchestra, and with Chamber Music Amarillo.

As a soloist, he has performed the works of Mozart, Bach, and others in Texas, Colorado, Ohio, and Brazil. Festival appearances include the Oregon Bach Festival as student of the Berwick Academy, Sewanee Summer Music Festival as a teaching fellow, and Hot Springs Music Festival as concertmaster of the festival orchestra.

An avid chamber musician, Dr. Lunkes has performed works ranging from the Renaissance to the present day in Georgia, Tennessee, Arkansas, Texas, New Mexico, Ohio, Oregon, and has been coached by members of the Vermeer, Axelrod, Arianna, and Marian Anderson string quartets.

In 2022, Bruno joins the prestigious Historical Performance Practice program at Case Western

Reserve University in Cleveland, where he will be studying baroque violin with Dr. Julie Andrijeski and harpsichord with Dr. Peter Bennett.

Bruno’s recordings have been released by the Sony Classical, OSESP Digital, and UCS labels.