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Luciano Tarantino

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Luciano Tarantino

Luciano Tarantino, Italian cellist, born in 1977, began studying the cello at a very young age, attending masters such as Ormezowski, Geringas, Mork, Monighetti and Rostropovich. At the age of twenty, already first cello in various Italian orchestras, he plays with conductors of the caliber of Mazeel, Sinopoli, Tate, Gergiev, Pretre, Noseda, Petrenko and De Burgos. A role that he will soon abandon to devote himself to chamber and solo music, which leads him to perform in important chamber and cello festivals, in cities and theaters such as Opera Garnier in Paris, Royal Theater in Madrid, Kabukiza in Tokyo, Parco della Musica Rome, Sala Piatti Bergamo, and Moscow, Vilnius, Stockholm, Istanbul, Beijing, Seoul, Strasbourg, Lugano, Johannesburg, Beirut etc. He records numerous albums for Movimento Classic, DaVinci, Brilliant, Farelive, FedoraMusic, KzMusik, Stradivarius, etc. which allowed him to win the nomination for the "Cello Foundation of New York", as the only Italian. He is the artistic director of the Note di Notte Festival in Bari.
He is a cello teacher at the Conservatorio “L. Canepa” of Sassari. He plays the precious Italian cello "Carlo Antonio Testore 1736”.