Luca Chiantore | |
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Born | 1966 (age 57–58) Milan |
Occupation(s) | Pianist and musicologist |
Website | https://chiantore.com |
Luca Chiantore (Milan, 1966)..[1] is an Italian pianist and musicologist, based in Catalonia. PhD in Musicology from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona,[2] he specializes in the study of piano technique and interpretation and the music of Beethoven.[3]
As a scholar, his most important studies are: Tone Moves: A History of Piano Technique (2019),[4] a revised English version of his Historia de la técnica pianística (2001)[5] (+250 cites on Google Scholar[6]), where he introduces the new term Ur-Technik (21 cites on Google Scholar[7]) as corporal correspondent to Ur-Text, and his thesis Beethoven al piano: Improvisación, composición e investigación sonora en sus ejercicios técnicos (2010) [8] (30 cites on Google Scholar[9]), where he argued that Beethoven might not have been who composed the Füre Elise.[10][11]
He is very often invited to give lectures at many universities around the world as in the University of California Los Angeles,[12] Universidad de la Rioja, Spain[13] or the Universidade de São Paulo.[14]
Luca Chiantore teaches in the Escola Superior de Música de Barcelona (Catalonia),[15] Universidade de Aveiro (Portugal), Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain)[16] and the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofia (Spain).[17]
As a pianist, Luca Chiantore has performed, either as soloist or with David Ortolá in the Tropos Ensemble, in many countries as at the Oratorio San Felipe Neri in Cuba,[18] Palacio Rioja in Xile,[19] Auditorio de la Usina del Arte in Buenos Aires, Argentina[20] or the Carnegie Hall in New York, USA[21][22]
He has been awarded with the Second Prize of the Valencia International Piano Competition Prize Iturbi in 1990.