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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 and The Spherical Piano albums are on sale at www.musikeon.net and www.bandcamp.com

Piano melologues

IMAGINARIES

Works by Fanny Mendelssohn and Ludwig van Beethoven

A piano recital of music and words. Beethoven’s Waldstein Sonata with added movements, improvised fermatas and interludes, recomposed cadenzas, and original melodic material from the Landsberg 6 manuscript, together with the wonderful four Lieder for solo piano  by Fanny Mendelssohn.

2025-2026

FANTASIES

Works by Hélène de Montgeroult, Maria Szymanowska, Enric Granados, and Ludwig van Beethoven

Luca’s inVersions of Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata and Granados’ Valses Poéticos, the captivating Szymanowska Fantasy in F Major, and seven of the most striking Etudes by the extraordinary Hélène de Montgeroult—one of the great musicological revelations of the 21st century. All performed in a seamless blend of music and words, creating an emotional continuum that transforms this concert into a true adventure.

2025-2026

PRESENCES

Works by Frédéric Chopin, Clara Wieck, and Modest Mussorgsky

A striking re-reading of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition, Chopin’s Nocturne op. 48 no. 2 and Scherzo op. 39, and Wieck’s remarkable Ballade in D Minor, in a moving recital where music and words seamlessly intertwine.

2025-2026

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.

2018-2020

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.

2020-2022

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.

2018-2020

RESEARCH IN ACTION

Presentation at the piano of the InVERSIONS project

Lecture with excerpts of works by Hélène de Montgeroult, Fryderyk Chopin, Ludwig van Beethoven, and Johannes Brahms, played and commented at the piano.

2019-2021

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.

2021-2023

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

Piano and orchestra

DETHRONING THE EMPEROR

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

A radically different performance of Beethoven “Emperor” Concerto: inVersion by Luca Chiantore with variants and thoroughbass according to the first edition; fermatas, cadenza, interludes, and solos (re)composed from autograph sketches; ornamented timpani and added snare drum parts; and two original melologues, partially derived from the incidental music for Egmont.

Private world premiere: Mexico City, December 2, 2021
Public world premiere: Morelia, Mexico, December 4, 2021.
Tzintzuni Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Juan Vázquez.

Multidimensional adventures

inVERSIONS: the book

This Artistic Research endeavor illustrated in detail

A 300-page book to be published in 2026

COLOURFUL FORMS

Rethinking Brahms through timbre contrasts

Piano recitals, chamber music concerts, and multi-layered recordings. Works by Johannes Brahms.

2024-2025

Experimental recordings

  • inVERSIONS
    My inVersions of Beethoven’s Sonatas Op. 53 and 27#2 and my experimental informed rendering of nine Etudes by Hélène de Montgeroult (recording: November, 2020; release: February, 1st, 2021). 2 CDs; full digital download available on Bandcamp; full album in Spotify from March 2022.
  • The Spherical Piano
    An experimental twofold 360º Binaural and Panoramic Stereo recording of my inVersions of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Unfinished Fantasia K. 397, plus works by Hélène de Montgeroult, Fryderyk Chopin, Maria Szymanowska, César Franck, Johannes Brahms, Camille Saint-Saëns, and Clara Wieck, my Five Binaural Etudes (2020) and other pieces composed specifically for this album. Recorded at Musikeon and El Spot Studios, Valencia, between July, 2020, and June, 2024; produced by Ronald Ayala and Luca Chiantore at El Spot Studios, between November, 2023 and November, 2024. Release: 1st December, 2024.
  • Open Works
    An experimental recording of my inVersions of Musorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition, Granados’ Valses Poéticos, and Szymanowska’s Fantasia (recording: Spring, 2025). Producer Ronald Ayala, El Spot Studios.

  • 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

  • November-December 2020

    Spain

  • February-July 2021

    Spain & Italy

  • December 2 & 4, 2021

    World premiere of Dethroning the Emperor: inVersion of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5. Mexico City & Morelia

  • February-March 2022

    Spain

  • April 2022

    United Kingdom

  • June 2022

    ICMS Barcelona

  • July 2022

    Spain

  • August 2022

    Brasil

  • October 2022

    Spain

  • November 2022

    Brasil

  • January 2023

    Mexico

  • March-April 2023

    Denmark

  • August 2023

    Mexico

  • October 2023

    Chile

  • December 2023

    Spain

  • February 2024

    Chile (Patagonia) FIMP

  • March 2024

    France

  • March 2024

    Slovenia

  • April 2024

    Mexico

  • April-May 2024

    Latvia

  • August 2024

    Bolivia

  • September 2024

    Spain

  • February 2025

    Lithuania

  • June 2025

    Cuba

  • 2025-2026 (hopefully...)

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

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Luca Chiantore

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