LUCA FERRINI studied piano, harpsichord, organ and organ composition and graduated with full marks from the music conservatories in Trieste and Udine. Equally acclaimed on all three instruments as a soloist, in chamber ensembles and as a soloist with orchestra, often under the baton of renowned conductors (among the others Arkadij Steinlucht – Russia, Rene Gulikers – NL, Carl Davis and Simon Robinson – GB, David de Villiers, Lior Shambadal and Juergen Bruns – Germany, Anton Nanut, Marko Letonja, Marko Munih and Uros Lajovic – Slovenia, Tonu Kalliuste – Estonia, En Shao – China, Steven Loy – USA), over the last thirtyfive years he has been playing in thousand of concerts in Europe, Asia, Australia, Central and South America (St. Petersburg Philharmonic Hall, Beijing Concert Hall, Venice’s La Fenice theatre, Ljubljana’s Cankar Hall and Philharmonic Hall, Vienna’s Musikverein, Dublin’s National Concert Hall, National Theatre of Malta, Seoul National University, Philharmonic Halls of Odessa, Kaunas and Ulan Bator, Brussel’s St. Michel theatre, Prague, Budapest, Bucharest, Zagreb, Belgrade, Tirana, Copenhagen, Madrid, Porto, Seoul, Brisbane, Melbourne, Hobart, Buenos Aires, in Chile, etc.). He is member of ancient music (Nova Academia, Ensemble Claviere, I Musici della Serenissima) as well as contemporary music Ensembles. As member and co-founder of the Ensemble for contemporary music MD7 and other chamber groups, he has premiered more than hundredsixty new works. He has recorded for numerous European radio and television stations (Italian broadcasting corporation RAI, Russian State radio, Hungarian radio, Croatian HRT radio, RTV Slovenia and Macedonian MRT, the Romunian State radio and various private Radio and Television broadcasts) and more than forty CDs (as a pianist, harpsichordist and organist), among which it is worth mentioning the latest piano works by Franz Liszt, also published for the Italian National magazines “Il Giornale della Musica” and “Classic Voice”, and the Sonatas for violin and basso continuo by Giuseppe Tartini and his pupils, in duo with Črtomir Šiškovič (about forty sonatas, of which he wrote the part for the harpsichord), published by the label Dynamic, which obtained excellent reviews in English, French, German and American magazines.He lectures in many piano and harpsichord seminars and is the official piano accompanist at international summer academies and instrumental competitions in Denmark (Carl Nielsen International Competition), Mexico (Henryk Szeryng Violin Competition), China (Beijing International Music Competition), Belgium (Kortrjik/ today the Ghent Clarinet Competition), Italy, Slovenia, Austria, and Poland.
Particularly, appreciated as a collaborator of clarinettists, as well as the pianist of the I.C.A and E.C.A. ClarinetFests, he had the occasion to perform together with clarinettists of practically all the generations from all over the world. He has
taught at the Conservatories in Brescia, Salerno, Ljubljana (Slovenia) and Klagenfurt (Austria). His current post is professor of piano, harpsichord, chamber music and piano accompanist at the Koper-Capodistria Secondary Schools for the Arts, Slovenia, and piano accompanist at the Ljubljana Academy of Music.
