Luca D’Alberto

Luca D’Alberto (born 6 May 1983) is an Italian composer, musician, producer, arranger and multi-instrumentalist hails from Teramo, Abruzzo.

Early life and background D’Alberto was born and brought up in Teramo, 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 Music academy in Cremona 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 Xabier Iriondo, a former guitarist and founder of Italian rock 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 Jean-Luc Ponty and Nigel Kennedy.

During 2012 and 2015, he continued his artistic career as a soloist giving life to his projects ESTASI. a festival celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch. At the same time, he began a long collaboration with the director Michele Placido and the director Costanza Quatriglio.

In 2014, D’Alberto composed the original soundtrack for "9X10 novanta", "Lampedusani" with Erri De Luca directed by Costanza Quatriglio. In the same year, he composed the original soundtrack for "Prima di andar via" directed by Michele Placido and in 2015, for the original soundtrack for the movie "La scelta" directed by Michele Placido. Chtchoukine, Matisse, La Danse Et La Musique (Louis Vuitton Foundation, Paris), H Is For Horse, H Is For Hope (Festival dei Due Mondi – Spoleto, Italy) Body Parts (Sala Veronica, Murcia, Spain.) 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 Best Classical Album and Best Synch usage categories.

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 Howie B, Populous, Richard Dorfmeister 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 Elbphilharmonie 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) 2012: Re Lear (Director: Michele Placido) 2012: Puccini (with Giorgio Albertazzi, Director: Giovanni De Feudis) 2013: Un bacio sul cuore (with Isabella Ferrari, Director: Michele Placido) 2013: Dante: quali colombe (Director: Michele Placido) 2013: Pina40 2015: Tradimenti (Director: Michele Placido) 2016: I duellanti (Director: Alessio Boni) 2017: L'ora di ricevimento (with Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Director: Michele Placido) 2018: Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore (Director: Michele Placido)

Music for installation Art 2015: Obedience (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 & Peter Greenaway) 2018: Masters of modern art from the Hermitage (Director: Saskia Boddeke & Peter Greenaway)

Music for advertising 2017: Wimbledon "In pursuit of Greatness: A Year in the Making" 2017: Apple "The archives" 2014: 9x10 Novanta (Director: Costanza Quatriglio) 2015: La scelta (Director: Michele Placido) 2016: Down the Volga, a river movie (Director: Saskia Boddeke) 2018: Sembra mio figlio (Director: Costanza Quatriglio) 2019: La misma sangre (with Oscar Martinez, Director: Miguel Cohan) 2018 Libera awards Best album & Best synch 2018 Best Original Soundtrack for Mercurio Original Soundtrack