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Ludek Wojtkowski

Associate Concertmaster

Ludek Wojtkowski is a violinist, composer, and guitarist from Tucson, Arizona. Before being appointed Associate Concertmaster of the Tucson Symphony, he served as the concertmaster of the Anchorage Symphony Orchestra and was a founding member of the Aurora Borealis String Quartet. He holds degrees in violin performance from the Cleveland Institute of Music and Yale University, where he earned the Broadus Erle Prize in violin.

In 2016, Ludek joined the New World Symphony in Miami Beach directed by Michael Tilson Thomas until joining Lincoln Center Stage, a classical music partnership between Lincoln Center and Holland-America Line in 2018. While aboard, he played in a piano quintet and traveled across the world with itineraries ranging from South America to Greenland. He eventually sailed to Alaska, where he relocated in 2020 and joined the Anchorage Symphony Orchestra.

Ludek has been featured as a soloist and chamber musician locally and abroad, playing on a variety of programs at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., Carnegie Hall in New York City, and others. He toured as a soloist with the Collegium Balticum Sinfonietta in Poland and Germany and his formal training included three summers studying orchestral and chamber music with members of the Boston Symphony at the Tanglewood Music Center. In 2017, Ludek joined the Atlantic Music Festival as a contemporary music artist and facilitated the premiere of over 40 chamber works by young composers.

His own chamber work for piano quintet, soprano and electronics, Utopia, was premiered at the Art Basel Contemporary Design Festival in Miami Beach in 2018 in partnership with the Pratt Institute in New York City. When not playing violin, Ludek likes to ski, hike, fish, and enjoy the great outdoors year-round. Ludek additionally holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Alaska in Anchorage.