Lunchtime Concert: Luca Luciano, clarinet & Bruno D’Ambra, piano

A former clarinet professor in the UK, internationally recognized for his ground-breaking contributions to contemporary music (as a composer, a performer and a scholar), Luca Luciano debuts at the age of twelve at a prestigious hall of his home town Naples. Introduced as “the new voice of the clarinet” on the front page of De Klarinet Magazine, he graduated in Italy, has been awarded the Fellow Status of the Higher Education Academy (UK) and, according to the Clarinet & Saxophone Society of Great Britain, he has “established himself as the friendly face of contemporary clarinet”. Luciano has defined himself as a solo artist, not solely as an instrumentalist, but a complete musician in line with the tradition set by the great maestri of the past. His repertoire also embraces Brahms, Stravinsky, Poulenc, Berio. He has held many master-classes, has regularly premiered his music at St Martin in the Fields in London and Cambridge University, has performed at the South Bank Centre (recording live for BBC Radio at the Royal Festival Hall), Edinburgh Festival, European Clarinet Festival in Belgium, American Cathedral in Paris. Besides his book on extended techniques, his solo albums receive critical acclaim in three continents. 

London-based pianist Bruno D'Ambra is also an experienced teacher, imrpoviser and a composer. He has been collaborating with Luciano for the past twenty years for several performances including the St David’s Cathedral Festival in Wales, Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Cambridge University, Royal Festival Hall, Victoria & Albert Museum in London among others.