Italian composer, performer, conductor and musicologist Luciano Chessa visits Melbourne for three performances this month, presented by Liquid Architecture in collaboration with various partners.

At the Italian Cultural Institute, Luciano will play the grand piano (and megaphone) in a special program of works incorporating his own compositions as well as pieces that reimagine or interpret works by visionary artists of Italian Futurism Fedele Azari and Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

program

1. Luciano Chessa: ‘TomBoy’ Suite (2009/10) for piano
2. Divagazioni Medianiche, from a cycle of poems by Carlo Carrà (2015)
3. Inkless Imagination III, for Fedele Azari (2007) for piano
4. Cupric Donna I & II (2016) for piano
5. Bombardamento di Adrianopoli, from a poem by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (2014) for voice
6. Luciano Chessa: Le miniere (2003) from “Quadri da una città fantasma” for piano
7. Luciano Chessa: Gin e Ginepri, from a poem by Giosuè Carducci (1997) for voice, piano, and electronics