Luca Rasca
Luca Rasca, a pupil of Franco Scala at the Piano Academy of Imola, where he still lives, is the winner of numerous national and international prizes including: London Piano Competition, Busoni of Bolzano, Palma d'Or of Finale Ligure, Schubert of Dortmund, Scriabin of Grosseto, Chopin of Rome, City of Treviso, Casagrande of Terni, Viotti of Vercelli. He performs concerts as a soloist, in chamber music and has played over 20 concertos for piano and orchestra with prestigious ensembles including the Rai Symphony Orchestra, the Virtuosi of New York, the London Philharmonic Orchestra with which he made his debut at the Royal Festival Hall in London with Brahms' first concerto in the presence of King Charles of England. He has numerous recordings to his credit, for Arts of London, Fluente Records, Piano Recital and Universal Music, he is often a member of the jury of national and international competitions and has been active in the educational field for over 30 years. He writes for the magazine Suonare News, is artistic director of the Palma d'Oro International Competition in Finale Ligure (SV), of the YAPCO under 18 and of the Amateur Prize of Finalborgo and is professor and director of the Ateneum Piano School in Finalborgo (SV). He holds the chair of principal piano at the Gioacchino Rossini Conservatory in Pesaro and is a teacher of specialization courses at the Accademia del Ridotto in Stradella (PV). Since December 2015 he has been a Steinway Artist. In 2022 he signed an agreement with the record label Halidon Music.
Great music in Milan
The PIANO IN THE UNIVERSITY Project is the result of an agreement between the Milan branch of Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore and one of the most important manufacturers in the world of musical instruments, Kawai Pianos of Hamamatsu (Japan). Its promoters are the Master Davide Cabassi (professor at the Milan Conservatory) and Prof. Enrico Reggiani (director of the Studium Musicale di Ateneo) as, respectively, artistic creator and scientific director.
The aim of the Project is to contribute to enriching the musical offer of the City of Milan according to innovative criteria and methods from a cultural-musicological point of view and of the highest artistic profile, first of all, by establishing a chamber music season at the Aula Magna of the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan which will make use of established and prestigious names in international piano concertism.