Luca Luciano

Part of Luciano's academic research on extended techniques for the contemporary repertoire and new music for solo clarinet, the performance includes original compositions from the brand-new album 'Partenope'.

The Sequenza has been inspired by the famous line of Gustav Mahler's 'A symphony must be like the world, it must embrace everything' and includes sections of notated and improvised music where a 'sequence' of propositions are developed by the musician during the piece. Luciano tries in this remarkable journey to embrace all styles of music he loves in an imaginative tour around the world from Western European music to Afro-American or folkloristic music of Southern of Italy, from contemporary classical music with chromatic and angular-shaped melodies to heartfelt melodies.

The programme also includes two miniature pieces recently premiered at St Martin in the Fields part of their 'New Music Series' and a short prelude, arranged by Luciano, based on a famous theme from Puccini's 'Tosca'.