Luca Pianca (born 1958) is a
Swiss musician-
lutenist
A lute ( or ) is any plucked string instrument with a neck and a deep round back enclosing a hollow cavity, usually with a sound hole or opening in the body. It may be either fretted or unfretted.
More specifically, the term "lute" can re ...
whose specialty is
archlute
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. In 1985 he co - founded ''
Il Giardino Armonico
Il Giardino Armonico ("The Garden of Harmony") is an Italian ensemble well noted for its practice of Historically Informed Performance and founded in Milan in 1985 by Luca Pianca and Giovanni Antonini, primarily to play 17th- and 18th-century mus ...
''., a pioneering Italian early-music ensemble based in
Milan
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. He has premiered works by the contemporary lutenist-composer
Roman Turovsky-Savchuk
Roman Turovsky-Savchuk (Ukrainian: Роман Туровський-Савчук) is an American artist-painter, photographer and videoinstallation artist, as well as a lutenist-composer, at international festivals, and received numerous international awards for his recordings.
Early life and education
Luca Pianca was born in
Lugano
Lugano (, , ; lmo, label=Ticinese dialect, Ticinese, Lugan ) is a city and municipality in Switzerland, part of the Lugano District in the canton of Ticino. It is the largest city of both Ticino and the Italian-speaking southern Switzerland. Luga ...
,
Switzerland of
ethnic
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Italian
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* Anything of, from, or related to the people of Italy over the centuries
** Italians, an ethnic group or simply a citizen of the Italian Republic or Italian Kingdom
** Italian language, a Romance language
*** Regional Ita ...
ancestry. He studied with
Nikolaus Harnoncourt at the
Mozarteum University of Salzburg
Mozarteum University Salzburg (German: ''Universität Mozarteum Salzburg'') is one of three affiliated but separate (it is actually a state university) entities under the “Mozarteum” moniker in Salzburg municipality; the International Mo ...
,
Austria
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.
Career
Since 1982 Pianca has collaborated with ''
Concentus Musicus Wien''. He also served as a lutenist at
Zurich Opera House. In 1985 he was co-founder of Il Giardino Armonico (The Harmonic Garden), an Italian early-music ensemble that pioneered performances of many
Baroque and contemporary works.
Luca Pianca has recorded more than 20 CDs, both with and without ''
Il Giardino Armonico
Il Giardino Armonico ("The Garden of Harmony") is an Italian ensemble well noted for its practice of Historically Informed Performance and founded in Milan in 1985 by Luca Pianca and Giovanni Antonini, primarily to play 17th- and 18th-century mus ...
'', including complete recordings of lute repertoire by
J.S.Bach and
Antonio Vivaldi.
He has partnered with internationally known
opera
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singers and soloists such as Italian
Cecilia Bartoli
Cecilia Bartoli, Cavaliere OMRI (; born 4 June 1966) is an Italian coloratura mezzo-soprano opera singer and recitalist. She is best known for her interpretations of the music of Bellini, Handel, Mozart, Rossini and Vivaldi, as well as for her ...
,
Eva Mei, and American
Sylvia McNair.
Since 1999, Pianca has teamed with
viola da gamba
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player
Vittorio Ghielmi
Vittorio Ghielmi is an Italian musician (viola da gamba), conductor, compose
Compared by critics to Jasha Heifetz ("Diapason") for his virtuosity, and described as "An Alchemist of sound" ("Diario de Sevilla") for the intensity and versatility o ...
to record numerous CDs. Since 2001 he has also collaborated with the contemporary lutenist-composer
Roman Turovsky-Savchuk
Roman Turovsky-Savchuk (Ukrainian: Роман Туровський-Савчук) is an American artist-painter, photographer and videoinstallation artist, as well as a lutenist-composer, , whose works he premiered
[ ] at several international festivals:
Urbino
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,
Salamanca
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,
Paris
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, and
Vilnius
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, ''inter alia''.
Honors and awards
* Five ''
Diapason d'Or
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'', ''Diapason'' (Tuning Fork) magazine
* Four ''Choc'' awards, ''
Le Monde de la musique
''Le Monde de la musique'' was a French monthly musical magazine published from 1978 to 2009 with a circulation of 20,000 copies in 2008.
It was founded in 1978 by ''Le Monde'' and ''Télérama
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'' magazine
*
Gramophone Award
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, 1996 (''
The Gramophone
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'' magazine,
United Kingdom
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)
* ''
Deutscher Schallplattenpreis
The Deutscher Schallplattenpreis was a prize that the awarded from 1963 through 1992. Its successor is the Echo Music Prize.
References
German music awards
Awards established in 1963
Awards disestablished in 1992
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'' (German Record Award), 1998
Discography
*''
Bagpipe
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s from Hell — Music for
Viola da gamba
The viol (), viola da gamba (), or informally gamba, is any one of a family of bowed, fretted, and stringed instruments with hollow wooden bodies and pegboxes where the tension on the strings can be increased or decreased to adjust the pitch ...
,
Lyra-viol,
Lute and
Ceterone
The Ceterone (Italian), was an enlarged cetera (''Eng''. cittern), believed to be similar to the chitarrone as a development of the chitarra and lute to enhance the bass capabilities of these instruments.
Michael Praetorius includes such an ...
. 17th and 18th century'',
Vittorio Ghielmi
Vittorio Ghielmi is an Italian musician (viola da gamba), conductor, compose
Compared by critics to Jasha Heifetz ("Diapason") for his virtuosity, and described as "An Alchemist of sound" ("Diario de Sevilla") for the intensity and versatility o ...
, Luca Pianca, 1999
*''Pièces de caractère — Works by:
Marais
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People
* Marais (given name)
* Marais (surname)
Other uses
* Le Marais, historic district of Paris
* Théâtre du Marais, the name of several theatres and theatrical troupes in Paris, France
* Marais (c ...
,
Forqueray,
Mouton, Dollé, Caix d'Hervelois, De Visée'', Vittorio Ghielmi, Luca Pianca, 2002
*''Duo - German Music for Lute & Viol'', Vittorio Ghielmi, Luca Pianca, 2005
*''Devil's Dream'', Ghielmi, Pianca, Gibelli, 2006
References
Luca Pianca's official website-currently unavailable
*
Living people
1958 births
Mozarteum University Salzburg alumni
Swiss lutenists
People from Lugano
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