Luca Luciano @ Edinburgh Festival

Luca is a noted Italian clarinettist and composer who now makes his home in London, having developed an enviable reputation as an instrumental virtuoso around the UK and overseas via recordings and concert hall appearances. - 'Masterful Clarinet!', Musician Magazine.

Part of Luciano's academic research on extended techniques for the contemporary clarinet and new music for solo clarinet, the performance includes original compositions from the CD Clarinet. The Sequenza has been inspired by the famous line of Gustav Mahler’s A symphony must be like the world, it must embrace everything. Luciano tries in this remarkable journey to embrace all styles of music he loves in an imaginative tour around the world from classical European music to Afro-American or folkloristic music of the South of Italy, from contemporary classical music with chromatic and angular-shaped melodies to lyric and almost operatic atmospheres, from polyphony to blues and swing. The programme also includes an ironic homage to Benny Goodman and the clarinettists of the Swing Era with a jazzy piece introduced by a preludio arranged by Luciano based on a famous theme from Puccini’s Tosca.

In other words a concert that promises to be superb!