| Biography | Luca Luciano (born 12 August 1975 in Naples, Italy) is a clarinettist, a composer and an educator currently based in London (UK). He has held the position of clarinet professor at the Leeds College of Music in the UK, he is a specialist of both classical and improvised music and his research focuses on extended techniques, unconventional sound production, sound effects and new compositions for solo clarinet.
Introduced as the new voice of the clarinet on the front page of De Klarinet magazine, a keen promoter of new music, he has been described by "Musician Magazine" as a noted Italian clarinettist and composer who now makes his home in London, having developed an enviable reputation as an instrumental virtuoso around the UK and overseas via recordings and concert hall appearances. Praised by the International Clarinet Association, Luciano received a master's degree from the Conservatory of Music of Salerno (Italy) in 1999, has been awarded the Fellow status at the Higher Education Academy in the UK in 2010 and is now one of Europe's leading exponents of jazz clarinet according to the BBC Radio.
He began his career at the age of twelve performing at the Sala Curci of Naples and has since established himself as the friendly face of contemporary clarinet according to the Clarinet & Saxophone Magazine. He has held several recitals, master-classes, lecture-recitals and workshops in the UK, Europe and South America including the South Bank Centre in London, the Barber Institute of Fine Arts, the Edinburgh Festival in Scotland, SESC Instrumental Paulista and Centro Cultural São Paulo (Brazil), European Clarinet Festival in Belgium. In recent years he has been focusing primarily on his own music with premieres regularly held at St Martin in the Fields in London for their "New Music Series", Cambridge University and overseas. His compositions have been cited on books about the clarinet repertoire with credits that include some of the most established academic institutions of the UK, Brazil and Belgium. |