Luca D’Alberto (born May 6, 1983) is an

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, musician, producer, arranger and multi-instrumentalist hails from

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, Abruzzo.

Early life and background

D’Alberto was born and brought up in

, Abruzzo. He completed his graduation in violin and viola summa cum laude with a Ministerial Mention in Italy. He studied with Clara Campi, Rocco De Massis (First Violist of "San Carlo Napoli"), Antonio Anselmi (First Violinist of "Musici Di Roma") Reiner Schmidt. As a winner of international selection, he attended the

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and Milano studying with Bruno Giuranna and Simonide Braconi (First Viola in Scala, Milan). During his classical studies, he became interested by other musical genres such as electronic music, rock, and experimental music.

Career

In 2004, D’Alberto collaborated with

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, a former guitarist and

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band Afterhours, creating with him the experimental music project Choral Funis Dualitas. In the same year, D'Alberto became a Violectra Official Player, testimonial of this particular instrument alongside the likes of

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and

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. In 2007, he founded the project Ex. Wave with the pianist Lorenzo Materazzo and in the same year with this project, he released the album "Apri Gli Occhi" (Do it Yourself/EMI). In 2008, and in 2011, the rock band

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chose Ex. Wave as an open act for the Milan live show (Teatro Smeraldo) and for the Verona live show (

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). During 2012 and 2015, he continued his

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career as a soloist giving life to his projects ESTASI. A project of music and dance that sees as guests some dancers from Tanztheater "Pina Bausch". In 2013, as a composer and performer, he took part in the Pina 40 festival; a festival celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch. At the same time, he began a long collaboration with the director

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and the director Costanza Quatriglio. In 2014, D’Alberto composed the original soundtrack for "9X10 novanta", "Lampedusani" with

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directed by Costanza Quatriglio. In the same year, he composed the original soundtrack for "Prima di andar via" directed by

and in 2015, for the original soundtrack for the movie "La scelta" directed by

. He started working with multimedia artist Saskia Boddeke and director

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and he composed the original soundtrack for many of their artistic installations and movies: “Obedience” ( Judisches Museum Berlin), Chtchoukine, Matisse, La Danse Et La Musique (

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, Paris), H Is For Horse, H Is For Hope (

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–

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) Body Parts (Sala Veronica, Murcia, Spain.) During 2016 and 2017, he composed the original soundtrack for "Down the Volga, a river movie" directed by Saskia Boddeke and for the docufilm "The Greenaway alphabet" directed by Saskia Boddeke; "The Greenaway alphabet" has been screened in the most important film festivals in the world. In 2017, D'Alberto began his collaboration with classical violinist

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. by reworking Bach's Chaconne. Also in 2017, he released 'ENDLESS', his first solo recording for Berlin-based, imprint 7K, it was nominated for a Libera Award in the

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and Best Synch usage categories. ENDLESS has been largely popularized through its inclusion in films, TV series, advertising and film trailers such: Wimbledon 2017 titled, "In Pursuit of Greatness: A Year in the Making" that features Rodger Federer, Apple “The archives”,

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, CBS "Salvation", Viceland "Wediquette", "The happy prince" directed by

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(

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). In the album, "ENDLESS" D’Alberto played all the instruments which were engineered by Martyn Heyne (who's also worked with artists like

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and

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), with additional production by

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. The photographer

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shoots the Official video for "Her dreams" one of the singles of the album. After Luca released 'Endless Reworks', which was a remastered and remixed version of the original album, fusing traditional classical music compositions with the electronic world. The album features were reworked by artists as diverse as Robert Lippok, Fabian Russ, Machinefabriek, Dæmon Tapes, and label mates Hior Chronik and Niklas Paschburg. Many producers, as

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, Populous,

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released remixes of Luca's tracks. In 2018, his next step with ‘Exile’, his second studio album and his second release with 7K!. D’Alberto played all the instruments and in EXILE used electronics as a means to amplify the expressive power of acoustic instruments such as piano, strings, drums of oriental tradition, gongs, and Tibetan quartz bells. This operation was brought about in collaboration with Patrick Christensen aka PC Nackt, a figure of the German music scene, composer and multi-instrumentalist who started the String Theory project and has produced various artists including Apparat. In the same year, D'Alberto composed the original soundtrack for the movie "Sembra mio figlio" directed by Costanza Quatriglio, for the animated film "Mercurio" directed by Michele Bernardi and for this film he won the "Best Original Soundtrack" at Festival Internacional de Cine por la Memoria Democrática (FESCIMED). He played in important festivals such as ESNS Eurosonic Festival and in the prestigious location as

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in Hamburg. In 2019, D'Alberto composed the original soundtrack for the movie "La Misma Sangre" directed by Miguel Cohan.

Discography

* 2017 ENDLESS (label !7K) * 2017 Endless Rework (label !7K) * 2018 EXILE (label !7K)

Music for theater

* 2011: Così è…se vi pare (Director:

) * 2012: Re Lear (Director:

) * 2012: Puccini (with

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, Director: Giovanni De Feudis) * 2013: Un bacio sul cuore (with

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, Director:

) * 2013: Dante: quali colombe (Director:

) * 2013: Pina40 * 2015: Tradimenti (Director:

) * 2016: I duellanti (Director:

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) * 2017: L'ora di ricevimento (with

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, Director:

) * 2018: Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore (Director:

)

Music for installation Art

* 2015: Obedience (Director: Saskia Boddeke & Peter Greenaway) * 2016: Chtchoukine, Matisse: La Danse et La Musique (Director: Saskia Boddeke & Peter Greenaway) * 2017: H is for Horse, H is for Hope (Director Saskia Boddeke. Script, artworks: Peter Greenaway) * 2017: Body Parts (Director: Saskia Boddeke &

) * 2018: Masters of modern art from the Hermitage (Director: Saskia Boddeke &

)

Music for advertising

* 2017: Wimbledon "In pursuit of Greatness: A Year in the Making" * 2017: Apple "The archives"

Music for cinema

* 2009: The hidden evidence (with Marco Blanchi, Director: Iacopo Tumino) * 2014: Prima di andar via (Director:

) * 2014: 9x10 Novanta (Director: Costanza Quatriglio) * 2015: La scelta (Director:

) * 2015: Lontana da me (Director: Claudio Di Biagio) * 2016: Down the Volga, a river movie (Director: Saskia Boddeke) * 2017: The Greenaway alphabet (with

, Director: Saskia Boddeke) * 2018: Sembra mio figlio (Director: Costanza Quatriglio) * 2018: Mercurio (Director: Michele Bernardi) * 2019: La misma sangre (with

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, Director: Miguel Cohan)

Awards and nominations

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Alberto, Luca D' Living people 1983 births People from Teramo Italian composers Italian male composers