Ispir
Luka Ispir, violin, and Léo Ispir, cello
Bach, Fazıl Say, Ravel, Mozart, Halvorsen, including the world premiere recording of Fazıl Say’s Street of Memories.
Erato / Warner Classics, 2025
Léo Ispir
Cellist
Biography
Nominated in the Instrumental Soloist Revelation category at the 2026 Victoires de la Musique Classique and named ADAMI Classical Revelation in 2023 at 21, Léo Ispir has won prizes at several prestigious competitions, including the Bach Competition in Leipzig, the Tremplin Competition and the Gustav Mahler International Cello Competition. He is a laureate of the Fondation Banque Populaire.
Trained at the Rouen Conservatoire, the CRR de Paris, the CNSMDP, the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel and the Munich Hochschule, he has appeared as a soloist with orchestras such as the ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien, the Orchestre Appassionato, the Orchestre National de Bretagne, the Orchestre National de Mulhouse and the Orchestre de Picardie, and has shared the stage with Gautier Capuçon, Augustin Dumay, the Quatuor Modigliani, Frank Braley and Claire Désert.
In 2024 he recorded a duo album with his brother Luka Ispir for Warner Classics, followed in 2025 by a recording with the ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien. He plays a cello by Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume, generously loaned by Michael Guttman.
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Discography
Cover to come
La Muse et le Poète
Camille Saint-Saëns. Léo and Luka Ispir with the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Howard Griffiths
Berlin Classics, release planned for 2027
Press
“One to Watch”
“a rich and highly singular sound, as if haloed in poetry”
“a subtle awareness of bow placement”
