Luca Piovesan
Accordion

Luca Piovesan was born in Treviso in 1982; he graduated with honors as an accordionist from "G. Verdi" Conservatory in Milan in 2004. He studied accordion with Elio Boschello and with Claudio Jacomucci. He attended masterclasses with Radomir Tomic (Serbia), Mika Vayrynen and Matti Rantanen (Finland), Jurji Shishkin, Viatcheslav Semionov and Friedrich Lips (Russia), Geir Draugsvoll (Norvey), Iñaki Alberdi (Basque Country), Jean-Luc Manca (France). He performed in lots of international stages: Tokyo Opera City Hall, Symphony Hall of Osaka, Yokohama Hall and many others in Japan; University of Minnesota (Minneapolis); Fenway Center (Boston); American Academy in Rome; Austria; Slovenia; Canada; Switzerland-Musical Weeks of Lugano; International Festival of Accordion in Castelfidardo; International Accordion Festival of Deventer (Netherlands); Czech Republic's consulat; La Biennale di Venezia; Udine Contemporanea and so on. He's working on the possibilities of accordion in contemporary music: he co-operates with the Ensemble L'arsenale in Treviso and worked with composers Filippo Perocco, Riccardo Vaglini, Stefano Trevisi, Nildo Sanvido, Andrew Byrne, Anthony De Ritis, Michele Zaccagnini, Lorenzo Tomio, performing in premières. In 2007 he received the 42nd International Prize "Grolla d'oro" in Treviso for his artistic activities. In 2008 he won the 2nd prize at the International Music Trophy (TIM).

He's recorded eight CDs including "Musica Ricercata" (solo cd) and "L'arsenale Report 00". He's attending at his second solo cd, with new original music for accordion. He founded "BlowoutStudio", a recording studio focused on accordion. In 2005 he graduated in Italian Literature from University Ca' Foscari in Venice.

He published his first poetry book "Sussurri di sogni" (Whispering dreams) in 2003.