Bruno Lukk was an Estonian and Soviet musician, pianist, and music teacher. He was born on June 17, 1909, in Chusovoy, Perm Governorate. He became one of the prominent figures of musical life in Estonia, later serving as director of the Tallinn Conservatory from 1948 to 1951. He was awarded the title People's Artist of the Estonian SSR in 1977 and received the State Prize of the Estonian SSR in 1947.
Lukk began studying music together with his sister and then entered a music school in Tartu, where he studied piano. In 1928 he graduated from the Latvian Conservatory in Riga, where he studied with M. Betge. He continued his education from 1928 to 1933 at the Higher School of Music in Berlin under Leonid Kreutzer in piano and Paul Hindemith in music theory, harmony, and counterpoint.
His solo career began in 1931 in the concert hall of the Riga Conservatory. He performed both as a soloist and as a member of various ensembles. During the Second World War, in 1941, he was evacuated to the east of the USSR. He worked in the State Ensembles of Estonia, the united collective of creative artists of the Estonian SSR who were in evacuation in the Russian city of Yaroslavl during the war years.
From 1942 he performed in a duo with Anna Klas, and their artistic collaboration lasted until 1974. The duo gave dozens of concerts every year. Lukk also appeared in concerts on the radio and made recordings at the Riga gramophone record factory.
Lukk was closely connected with the Tallinn Conservatory for most of his life. He taught there in 1940–1941 and again from 1944 onward, became professor in 1945, headed the piano department in 1940–1941 and 1944–1967, served as director in 1948–1951, and was deputy director in 1951–1956. From 1940 until his death in 1991 he remained a professor at the conservatory in Tallinn. Among his students were Arbo Valdma, Roland Kriit, Leelo Kylär, and Kalle Randalu.
Among his recordings were Schumann's Fantasy, pieces by Heino Eller, Hindemith's Second Sonata, Debussy's Six Ancient Epigraphs, Ravel's Mother Goose Tales in a piano duet with Anna Klas, and music by Estonian composers Rudolf Tobias, Mart Saar, and Arvo Pärt, as well as Karelian Dance and other works.
Bruno Lukk died on May 31, 1991, in Tallinn, USSR, and was buried at Forest Cemetery.
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