Víctor Castillo Luna was born in Chile. He is a guitarist and lutenist with experience in a wide range of classical, contemporary, and early music.
He is a lutenist playing a wide repertoire of early music on plucked string-instruments: Baroque guitar, Vihuela, Lutes and Early guitars. He has played with the most outstanding ensembles specialized in early music in his native country, recording albums, concerts for television and playing concerts on prestigious stages, being the most prominent figure in Chile in plucked string instruments of his generation.
He studied guitar at Universidad de Chile with Romilio Orellana where he received his bachelor’s degree with the highest distinction. He learned early instruments with Rodrigo Diaz at the Academy of Early Music of the University of Santiago.
He has attended numerous Master Classes given by notable contemporary lutenists: Hopkinson Smith, Xavier Diaz-Latorre, Nigel North, Miguel Rincón, John Griffiths, etc. And some of the most relevant classical guitarists: Leo Brouwer, Thibault Cauvin, Marco Tamayo, Hubert Käppel, Thomas Müller-Pering, Tilman Hoppstock, Eduardo Fernández, and many others.
Motivated by the development of new repertoires, he composes contemporary music with Chilean roots and arranges early and Latin American music with the complement of researching their origins and links with current phenomenology.
He is currently based in Switzerland. He studied Master in Music Performance – Konzert at the Zurich University of the Arts in the class of Maestro Eduardo Egüez. He also studied jazz guitar with Theo Kapilidis and composition and arranging with Kurt Widorski. He is currently studying his second master’s degree in instrumental pedagogy at the Hochschule Luzern – Musik and also teaches at the Musikschule Pfannenstiel, Meilen – Zürich.
