Friday 21 November, 6.30pm
Part of the EFG London Jazz Festival
Luca Ciarla solOrkestra
With video art by Keziat
Italian violin alchemist Luca Ciarla creates his music with a loop pedal, his voice and several toy instruments. He performs solo playing the violin also like a guitar, a cello or a percussion instrument. With visuals by artist Keziat.
A creative and surprising violinist, Luca Ciarla easily transcends the boundaries among genres to trace an innovative musical path, a magical acoustic seduction in perfect balance between written compositions and improvisation, traditional and contemporary sounds. He has successfully performed in jazz, classical and world music festivals and concert series in more than 70 countries around the world; from Montreal to Melbourne Jazz Festivals, from the Hong Kong Performing Arts Centre to the Villa-Lobos Festival in Rio de Janeiro, from Celtic Connections in Scotland to the Dubai Opera and the Auditorium Parco della Musica in Italy. “…one of the most interesting violinists nowadays on the international scene, capable of browsing around different sounds and genres without ever losing his unmistakable style.” la Repubblica (Italy)
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LUCA CIARLA violin, loops, vocals, keyboard, toy instruments
KEZIAT video art
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A native of Termoli, Italy, Luca Ciarla began playing violin and piano at the age of eight. By twelve he was studying at the conservatory and few years later began exploring jazz and improvisation. He received his violin degree in 1993 and then studied at the Fiesole School of Music and the Scuola di Alto perfezionamento of Saluzzo. In 1996 Luca moved to the United States to pursue a master’s at the Indiana University and to study jazz with David Baker. Subsequently he also completed a doctorate in musical arts at the University of Arizona where he taught violin for few years. Winner of several competitions in Italy and abroad, in 1999 he was awarded by the prestigious New York-based Chamber Music America. Over the years Luca Ciarla has worked with artists such as Greg Cohen, Chris Jarrett, Daniele Sepe, Joshua Bell, Edgar Mayer, Daniele Scannapieco, Danilo Rea, Sylvain Gagnon, Anthony Fernandes, Luciano Berio, Andrea Piccioni, Meklit Hadero, Simone Zanchini, Marina Rei, Blaine Whittaker, Mimmo Locasciulli, Luciano Biondini, Fabrizio Bosso, Sergio Cammariere, Rodolfo Maltese, Paola Turci, Luigi Tessarollo, Ferruccio Spinetti, Mark Rush, Peppe Voltarelli, Javier Girotto, Antonio Forcione. After recording with several prestigious labels, Luca Ciarla founds Violipiano, a production company that takes care of his artistic activity at 360 degrees. He regularly collaborates with visual artist Keziat with whom he has envisioned the performance Music for your Eyes, presented also in Johannesburg under the invitation of South African artist William Kentridge. Numerous national and international media have talked about him, including la Repubblica, New York Times, Rai 1, Il Fatto Quotidiano, The Sydney Morning Herald, RadioRai 2, TGcom Mediaset, Il Giornale della Musica, RTHK Hong Kong, Neue Musikzeitung and many others. At the invitation of the Fiesole School of Music, Luca has recently performed in Florence for the Strings City Festival, in the same spaces dedicated to the retrospective on Marina Abramović at Palazzo Strozzi.
Born in San Severo (Apulia) in 1973, Italian artist Kezia Terracciano, alias Keziat, currently lives in Rome. She graduates at the Academy of Fine Arts in Foggia in 1998 and since then has presented her works in Venice, Rome, Paris, Florence, New York, Hong Kong, Amsterdam, Luxembourg, San Francisco, Chicago, Los Angeles, Toronto, Stuttgart, Perth, Kuala Lumpur, Porto, Jakarta, Milan, Helsinki, Ljubljana, Singapore, Bangkok, Miami and Johannesburg and Washington Dc. From 1996 to 2008 Keziat creates mainly paintings on canvas. During these years she draws numerous cartoons and illustrations for major publishing companies such as Enciclopediae Britannica (Chicago), Synergebooks (New York) and 123Publishing House (Hong Kong). In 2006 Keziat begins to collaborate with Violipiano Visual, creating and producing interdisciplinary performances of music, dance, theater and visual arts.
Visionaria, her first cycle of works, starts in 2009 with several black & white ink drawings on big sheet of paper and canvas, followed by several videos, installations and performances. In 2010 her work Memoria di un Folle wins the MAGMART, the international video art festival presented in collaboration with PAN – Palazzo delle Arti di Napoli; the video is then acquired by the public collection of CAM, the Contemporary Art Museum of Casoria (Italy). In 2012 Visionaria becomes an international exhibition project; five solo shows with different themes and curators in five different spaces such as the MAT – Museo dell’Alto Tavoliere of San Severo (Italy), the Elsa Morante Cultural Center in Rome (Italy), Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimo’ in New York, the Sabiana Paoli Art Gallery in Singapore and the Italian Cultural Institute of Amsterdam. In 2014 she creates a video animation logo for Umano Productions, a film company based in Hollywood, California. In 2015 her work Sounds is acquired by the National Art Gallery of Kuala Lumpur, following her extraordinary exhibition at the Art Expo Malaysia, one of the most prestigious contemporary art fairs in Asia. Hybrids, her second international exhibition cycle debuts in 2016 at the MAT – Museo dell’Alto Tavoliere of San Severo, before moving to Miami (Usa) at the Società Dante Alighieri, to the Scuderie Aldobrandini of Frascati (Rome) and at the Chulalongkorn University Museum of Bangkok, on the occasion of the prestigious Italian Festival in Thailand. In 2018 Keziat presents the performance Music For Your Eyes in Johannesburg (South Africa), at the prestigious The Center for the Less Good Idea founded by William Kentridge. This is the first event of the new exhibition project, Introspective, also showing in Washington DC (USA) at Via Umbria Art Gallery (curated by Mary J. Sollway) and then in Cyprus at the Kimonos Art Center. In 2019 her new performance In_Visible premieres at MACRO, the Contemporary Art Museum of Rome. Recently she has conceived and created, for the Loto Theatre, the scenography of the play L’Asino, written by the Norwegian author Jesper Halle.