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.

References

External links

• Luca Chiantore official site