Luca Chiantore, an Italian musician and musicologist, was born in Milan in 1966. He studied piano and composition, studying with Emilia Crippa Stradella, Alexander Lonquich, Edoardo Strabbioli, Franco Scala, and Emilia Fadini, among others. He holds a doctorate in Musicology from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and has offered concerts, courses, and conferences in more than twenty countries in Europe, Africa, America, and Asia. Since 2012, he and David Ortolà have formed the core of the Tropos Ensemble, a multi-pianistic ensemble dedicated to redesigning the boundary between contemporary composition and the interpretation of the classical repertoire.
His research activity focuses on the theory and history of musical interpretation, with special attention to 19th-century music. Among the results of this activity is the writing of his History of Piano Technique: A study on the great composers and the art of interpretation in search of the Ur-Technik, published in Spain by Alianza Editorial. In 2010, he completed his Beethoven at the Piano: Improvisation, composition and sound research in his technical exercises (ed. Nortesur, also to be published in English and Italian versions), the first monograph dedicated to the little-known technical exercises of Ludwig van Beethoven, whose content has attracted the attention of the media in many countries by questioning the authorship of the famous bagatelle known as Für Elise.
The center of his pedagogical activity is the Annual Courses of Analysis and Piano Interpretation of Valencia, which he has directed since 1991. Luca Chiantore is also a professor in the Department of Musicology of the Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya and in the Centro Superior Katarina Gurska of Madrid, in addition to collaborating regularly with the Doctorate in Music of the Universidade de Aveiro (Portugal). He has directed Musikeon since 2003.