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Unconventional musicology-based approaches to classical-music performance

Concerts, talks, and concert-lectures
A personal project by Luca Chiantore

INformed

INsightful

INtriguing

INnovative

Musicological research can prove an unparalleled stimulus for bringing ideas to performance. But I have long been aware that performance can just as easily feed back to musicological thinking. And this is not all. Very often these synergies reveal no clear unidirectional trajectory. I experience this fertile collision with growing interest, in particular because of its potential to reshape our historiographic, stylistic, and professional categories. With this in mind, in November, 2018, I launched this new personal project: concerts, talks, recordings, and other initiatives, some addressed to an academic environment, others to general audiences, the common thread being my yearning to offer alternative ways to perform the classical-music repertoire from a starting point of unconventional musicology-based approaches.

Luca Chiantore

inVersions’ first (double) album! On sale from February 1, 2021.

Piano recitals

OPEN WORKS

InVersions by Luca Chiantore of works by Mozart, Granados, Beethoven, and Mussorgsky

…or four different ways of not playing “what is written in the score”. Piano recital with spoken commentaries.

2018-2019 & 2019-2020

THE REVOLUTION OF THE SENSES

InVersions by Luca Chiantore of works by Montgeroult and Beethoven

Beethoven’s Waldstein Sonata with added movements, improvised fermatas and interludes, recomposed cadenzas, and original melodic material from the Landsberg 6 manuscript, together with 9 startling etudes by Hélène de Nervo de Montgeroult, the extraordinary woman who embodied better than anyone that turbulent age of revolutions. Piano recital with spoken commentaries.

2020 & 2021

Lectures at the piano

DESCLASSIFIED CLASSICS

Artistic Research and historiographic activism

Lecture at the piano. Works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Johannes Brahms, and Ludwig van Beethoven.

2018-2019 & 2019-2020

RESEARCH IN ACTION

Intersecting pathways between musicology and performance

Presentation at the piano of the InVERSIONS project. Works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Ludwig van Beethoven.

2019-2020 & 2020-2021

HÉLÈNE DE NERVO DE MONTGEROULT

Rebel woman, offbeat artist

The thrilling life and unbelievable music of a unique figure in music history. Works by Hélène de Montgeroult.

2020-2021 & 2021-2022

Piano and orchestra

RETHINKING THE EMPIRE

Experimental inVersion of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5. World premiere: August 2021

A radically different performance of Beethoven’s “Emperor” Concerto: inVersion by Luca Chiantore with original variants; fermatas, cadenza, interludes, and solos (re)composed from autograph sketches; ornamented timpani part; and extemporaneous rendering of the thoroughbass.

World premiere: Morelia, Mexico, August 21, 2021. Tzintzuni Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Juan Vázquez.

Concert-lectures

RADICAL READINGS

Chopin’s subversive notation

Concert-lecture. Works by Fryderyk Chopin.

2021-2022

COLOURFUL FORMS

Rethinking Brahms through timbre contrasts

Concert-lecture. Works by Johannes Brahms.

2021-2022

REVOLUTIONARY FEVER

A performative duel against the so-called Classical Style

Concert-lecture. Works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Muzio Clementi, and Ludwig van Beethoven.

2019-2020

Experimental recordings

  • inVERSIONS
    My inVERSIONS of Beethoven’s Sonatas Op. 53 and 27#2 and an experimental informed performance of nine Etudes by Hélène de Montgeroult (recording: November, 2020; release: February, 2021)
  • The Spherical Piano
    An experimental 360º recording of my inVERSIONS of works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Fryderyk Chopin, and Johannes Brahms, plus my Five Binaural Etudes (2020), composed specifically for this album. Recorded at Musikeon, Valencia, between July, 2020, and March, 2021; produced by Ronald Ayala at The Spot Studio. Release: July 2021.
  • Open Works
    An experimental recording of my inVERSIONS of Musorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition and Granados’ Valses Poéticos (recording scheduled for: September, 2021). Producer Ronald Ayala, The Spot Studio.
  • November 2018

    Chile

  • December 2018

    Mexico

  • January 2019

    Cuba

  • April-June 2019

    Spain

  • July 2019

    Greece

  • August 2019

    Colombia

  • September 2019

    Colombia & Mexico

  • October 2019

    Mexico & Portugal

  • November 2019

    Spain

  • January 2020

    Mexico & Italy

  • February 2020

    Indonesia (Java & Bali) & Qatar

  • March 2020 (postponed)

    Spain & Costa Rica

  • April 2020 (postponed)

    Turkey, UK & Spain

  • May 2020 (postponed)

    France, Mexico, U.S.A., Italy & Spain

  • June 2020 (postponed)

    U.S.A & Spain

  • August 2020 (postponed)

    Mexico

  • September 2020 (postponed)

    Colombian tour

  • October 2020 (postponed)

    Bolivia, Mexico, Portugal & Iceland

  • November 2020 (postponed)

    U.S.A., Canada, Mexico & China

  • September-December 2020

    Spain

  • 2021 (hopefully...)

    U.S.A., Canada, Bolivia, Colombia, Mexico, Argentina, China, Singapur, Indonesia, Portugal, Italy, Germany, France, Turkey, Iceland, & more...

  • August 21, 2021

    World premiere of Rethinking the Empire: inVersion of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5. Morelia, Mich., México

About me

Luca Chiantore

Musician, musicologist, educator
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