Dario Luisi, born in 1965 in Genoa (Italy), lives since 1991 in Graz, Austria. During his modern violin studies at the State Conservatory of Music “N.Paganini” he started developing his main interest in the historically informed way of playing and, as a self thought musician, is an active historical violin player since 1987. Dario Luisi plays “properly” all sorts of historical violin instruments from the renaissance to the classical period. As a player, soloist and leader he worked with well known, specialized ensemble of early music like, among others, Les Arts Florissants (W.Christie, P.Agnew), Les Talens Lyriques (C.Rousset), Capella Savaria (N.McGegan), Ensemble 415 (C.Banchini), Complesso Barocco (A.Curtis) and, during his career, he was inspired by playing together with artists like J.Bowman, E.Gatti, M. Hugget, F.Fernandez, A.Scholl, Robert Kohnen and many others.