Luca Cori

Luca Cori studied composition at the Conservatory of Milano obtaining the summa cum laude diploma in 1992; during the same period he studied with Franco Donatoni, Brian Ferneyhough and Gérard Grisey in Milan, Rome and Siena.

From the very beginning of his activity, his works have received several prizes and have been played all around the world. His compositions are published by Suvini Zerboni, BMG Ricordi, Universal Editions, Ut Orpheus and PromoMusica International.

Since 1992 he regularly works as lecturer, analysts and essayist with a specific focus on contemporary music and on the analysis of selected forms and languages from the classical tradition.

He has been assistant to Franco Donatoni in México, where in 2003 he has also given masterclasses in composition, analytical conferencies (“Contemporary music in Italy after 1950”) and the lectio magistralis “The youngest generation of Mexican composers” at Centro Nacional de las Artes in México City. Furthermore, he gave readings about his own music for the radio (Radio opus 94 and Radio UNAM) and the television (DGTVE).

Luca Cori has been visiting professor at the ESMUC of Barcelona, Spain; guest composer at at the Biennale of Koper, Slovenia, Eastman School of Music, University of Kentucky, University of Eau Claire, Wisconsin, and Universidad de Guanajuato, México. Since 2015 he gives conferences and masterclasses in composition at the festival soundSCAPE.

He has written an analytical monography on the structures of the Art of Fugue, which has been published between 2001 and 2004 by Hortus Musicus. He writes also for the Mexican quarterly Pauta. Luca Cori teaches Composition at the Conservatory of Cesena, Italy.

Works on PromoMusica International