Igor Karsko

Violinist Igor Karsko is active as a soloist, chamber player, and orchestral musician. In 1993, Karsko became concertmaster of the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra. He also joined the Serenade String Trio, which won a pair of international chamber music competitions in 1991, and in 2000 recorded an album of trios by Françaix, Penderecki, and Martinu. He co-founded the Baroque orchestra La Gioconda, which has accompanied operatic productions and is a co-director of the chamber music festival Convergence (Konvergencie). After serving as the concertmaster of the venerable Camerata Zürich, Karsko became the group's artistic director in 2019. In 2021, he released his first recording as leader of that group, Leoš Janáček: On an Overgrown Path.