Born in Rovigo in 1995, Luca Guidarini started to play classical guitar at the age of 7. He continues his studies in classical and jazz guitar at the Conservatorio “A. Buzzolla” in Adria, then contemporary electric guitar at the Civica Scuola di Musica “C. Abbado” in Milan. As a guitar player, he performed in the improvised music field, playing in various festivals along with Andrea Centazzo, Massimo Manzi, Pasquale Mirra, among others. As a musicologist, he is graduated from the Università di Pavia, with a thesis on Fausto Romitelli’s compositional techniques. Luca Guidarini’s musicological research focuses on music theory, compositional and improvisational techniques of composers and performers of the late XXth and XIXst Century. His researches were presented at many institutions and conservatories, as McGill University (Montreal), and IRCAM (Paris).
As a composer, Luca studies with Giovanni Verrando and electroacoustic composition at the Conservatorio “G. Nicolini” in Piacenza, with Daniele Ghisi. He is a member of the ensemble Collettivo_21 as a performer of the electronics, composer, and artistic director of Incó_ntemporanea Festival. Luca’s music deals with the relationships between the technological means, the musicians, and the performance itself, and it has been performed in festivals such as Biennale Musica di Venezia, Cerimoniali Ritmici (Rome), Crossroads Festival (Salzburg), and Incó_ntemporanea Festival (Piacenza), collaborating with renowned soloists as Ljuba Bergamelli, Carlo Siega, Antonio Magnatta, and ensembles such as Collettivo_21, Blow-up Percussions, Duo Dubuois.