Louna Dekker Vargas is a Franco-American flutist. Daughter of Claudia Vargas, a Colombian painter, and Reinier Dekker, a Dutch craftsman, Louna was immersed in an artistic and multicultural universe from an early age.
She regularly performs in Paris and the United States, performing with Ensemble Regards, the New Jersey Festival Orchestra, Orchestra National d’Auvergne Rhones-Alpes. In summer of 2025 she will perform Vincent Trollet’s new concerto for flute and orchestra, with the Orchestra de Cuzco and Orchestra de Arequipa.
Her voice on the flute, with the guidance of world-famous flutists in France and the United States (Vincent Lucas, Marina Piccinini, Claire Chase), has been described as highly colorful, flexible, and sensitive. Her musical syntax, informed by deep forays into experimental, contemporary and improvisatory practice, often grooves, leaps, unsettles and surprises.
Louna is at home in several musical fields, from experimental jazz in New York (acclaimed releases with Out of Your Head Records ), the theatrical world of Broadway (Wicked 2017- 2020), and, above all, chamber music with her various international ensembles (Peabody Conservatory YADS Prize winners, guest artists at numerous festivals, including the Sitka Centennial Hall Chamber Music Festival, El Paso Pro Musica festival, Fox Fine Arts Hall, quarter-finalist at the Fischoff International Competition… )
Louna has worked directly with many living composers, some of whom include Georg Friedrich Haas, George E. Lewis, Tyshawn Sorey, Vijay Iyer, Ledah Finck, Valerie Coleman, Daniel Sabzghabaei Juan Arroyo, and Vincent Trollet.
She currently performs in a duo with Vincent Lucas, 1st solo flute with the Orchestre de Paris, Trio Soleil with Constance Luzzati and Elodie Gaudet, and playing with the Parisian contemporary ensemble – Ensemble Regards, regularly since May 2024.