Luca Chiantore

{{Infobox musical artist

| name = Luca Chiantore

| image = Luca Chiantore 2007.jpg

| birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1966}}

| birth_place = Milan

| website = https://chiantore.com

| occupation = Pianist and musicologist

}}

Luca Chiantore (born 1966){{cite web |title=Luca Chiantore on Herder |url=https://herder.com.mx/es/autores-writers/luca-chiantore |website=Editorial Herder México |access-date=20 May 2023}} is an Italian pianist and musicologist, based in Catalonia. He has a PhD in Musicology from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona;{{cite web |title=Luca Chiantore on INET |url=http://www.inetmd.pt/index.php/en/people/doutoradosen/398-luca-chiantore-en |website=Instituo de etnomusicologia |access-date=20 May 2023}} he specializes in the study of piano technique and interpretation and the music of Beethoven.{{cite web |title=Luca chiantore on ORCID |url=https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0730-3704 |website=ORCID |access-date=20 May 2023}}

As a scholar, his most important studies are: Tone Moves: A History of Piano Technique (2019),{{cite book |last1=Chiantore |first1=Luca |title=Tone Moves: A History of Piano Technique |date=June 2019 |publisher=Musikeon Books |location=Catalonia |isbn=9788494511738}} a revised English version of his Historia de la técnica pianística (2001){{cite book |last1=Chiantore |first1=Luca |title=Historia de la técnica pianística: Un estudio en torno a los grandes compositors y el arte de la interpretación en busca de la Ur-Technik. |date=2001 |publisher=Alianza |location=Spain |isbn=9788420678955}} (+250 cites on Google Scholar{{cite web |url=https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=8267429528845483596&as_sdt=2005&sciodt=0,5 |website=scholar.google.com |title=Google Scholar |access-date=21 May 2023}}), where he introduces the new term Ur-Technik (21 cites on Google Scholar{{cite web |title=Ur-Technik cites on Google Scholar |url=https://scholar.google.com/scholar?start=0&q=%22Ur-Technik%22&as_sdt=2005&sciodt=0,5&cites=8267429528845483596&scipsc=1 |website=scholar.google.com |access-date=21 May 2023}}) as corporal correspondent to Ur-Text, and his thesis Beethoven al piano: Improvisación, composición e investigación sonora en sus ejercicios técnicos (2010) {{cite book |last1=Chiantore |first1=Luca |title=Beethoven al piano: Improvisación, composición e investigación sonora en sus ejercicios técnicos |date=2010 |publisher=Nortesur |location=Spain |isbn=9788493735760}} (30 cites on Google Scholar{{cite web |title=Google Scholar |url=https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=1395439264490688147&as_sdt=2005&sciodt=0,5 |website=scholar.google.com}}), where he argued that Beethoven might not have been who composed the Füre Elise.{{cite web |last1=Wiegelmann |first1=Lucas |title=Ist "Für Elise" gar nicht von Beethoven? |url=https://www.welt.de/welt_print/kultur/article4840298/Ist-Fuer-Elise-gar-nicht-von-Beethoven.html |website=Die Welt |access-date=20 May 2023}}{{cite web |title=Who Wrote “Für Elise”? |url=https://www.newyorker.com/culture/alex-ross/who-wrote-fr-elise |website=Newyorker.com |access-date=20 May 2023}}

He is very often invited to give lectures at many universities around the world as in the University of California Los Angeles,{{cite web |title=Music Performance Studies Today: “21st-Century Pianism: Retrospection, New Directions, and Interpretative Communities” |url=https://schoolofmusic.ucla.edu/event/music-performance-studies-today-21st-century-pianism-retrospection-new-directions-and-interpretative-communities/ |website=schoolofmusic.ucla.edu |access-date=21 May 2023}} Universidad de la Rioja, Spain{{cite web |title=International Conference Performing Eighteenth-Century Iberian Music |url=https://www.unirioja.es/mecri/CongresoInterpretacion_eng.shtml |website=unirioja.es |access-date=21 May 2023}} or the Universidade de São Paulo.{{cite web |title=University Of São Paulo: Italian Pianist Exhibits Beethoven's “Moonlight Sonata” At USP |url=https://indiaeducationdiary.in/university-of-sao-paulo-italian-pianist-exhibits-beethovens-moonlight-sonata-at-usp/ |website=indiaeducationdiary.in |access-date=21 May 2023}}

Luca Chiantore teaches in the Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya (Barcelona),{{cite web |title=Luca Chiantore |url=https://www.esmuc.cat/professorat/luca-chiantore/ |website=esmuc.cat |access-date=21 May 2023}} Universidade de Aveiro (Portugal), Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain){{cite web |title=Doctorado en Musicología |url=https://www.ucm.es/musicologia/textos/134048 |website=ucm.e |access-date=21 May 2023}} and the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofia (Spain).{{cite web |title=Área académica |url=https://www.escuelasuperiordemusicareinasofia.es/area-academica-p |website=escuelasuperiordemusicareinasofia.es |access-date=21 May 2023}}

As a pianist, Luca Chiantore has performed, either as soloist or with David Ortolá in the Tropos Ensemble, in many countries as at the Oratorio San Felipe Neri in Cuba,{{cite web |title=Concierto del pianista italiano Luca Chiantore, en el Oratorio San Felipe Neri |url=http://habanacultural.ohc.cu/?p=28438 |website=habanacultural.ohc.cu |access-date=21 May 2023}} Palacio Rioja in Xile,{{cite web |title=Pianista italiano Luca Chiantore presentará concierto en Palacio Rioja |url=https://www.pucv.cl/uuaa/extension-cultural/noticias/pianista-italiano-luca-chiantore-presentara-concierto-en-palacio-rioja |website=pucv.cl |access-date=21 May 2023}} Auditorio de la Usina del Arte in Buenos Aires, Argentina{{cite web |title=Diálogo de partituras |url=https://www.clarin.com/rn/escenarios/Dialogo-partituras_0_r1_gr_KqPme.html |website=clarin.com |access-date=21 May 2023}} or the Carnegie Hall in New York, USA{{cite web |title=Tropos Ensemble |url=https://donyc.com/events/2015/12/3/tropos-ensemble |website=donyc.com |access-date=21 May 2023}}{{cite web |title=Classical Music Listings for Nov. 27-Dec. 3 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/27/arts/music/classical-music-listings-for-nov-27-dec-3.html |website=nytimes.com |access-date=21 May 2023}}

He has been awarded with the Second Prize of the Valencia International Piano Competition Prize Iturbi in 1990.