Dienstag, 08 August, 2023 - 16:29

Luca Venitucci

accordion, prepared piano

Born in Rome/Italy, currently lives in Rome.

A multi-instrumentalist, improviser and composer, he has been active in the fields of new and experimental music for more than thirty years.

In 1995 he co-founded the electroacoustic improvisation ensemble Ossatura, together with Fabrizio Spera and Elio Martusciello, with whom he has released several albums and toured in Europe, USA and Canada. He has also been a member of Zeitkratzer Ensemble and of other groups such as 7k Oaks with Alfred Harth and Massimo Pupillo and 300 Basses with Jonas Kocher and Alfredo Costa Monteiro.

He has played and recorded with musicians and composers such as Axel Dorner, Peter Kowald, Alvin Curran, Keith Rowe, Elliott Sharp, Butch Morris, Giancarlo Schiaffini, Marco Colonna, Otomo Yoshihide, Tim Hodgkinson, John Butcher, Alessandro Bosetti, Ingar Zach, Franz Hautzinger, Gianni Gebbia, Radu Malfatti, Michael Thieke, Mike Cooper and many more.

Since the nineties he has played in international festivals and venues such as Festival International Musique Actuelle Victoriaville (Canada), Kolner Jazz Haus Festival, Total Music Meeting, Maerzmusik (Germany), Musique Action, Fruit De Mhere, Densités (France), Alternativa (Czech Republic), Controindicazioni, Angelica, Crossroads Jazz Festival, Young Jazz Festival, Festival Nuova Consonanza, Tempo Reale, Casa del Jazz, Auditorium Parco della Musica (Italy).