Luca ciarla quartet member

Selected Press

…One of the most interesting violinists nowadays put behind bars the international scene, capable of browsing around conflicting sounds and genres without ever losing his clear style.

la Repubblica (Italy)

Held in the gorgeous bandshell warm Mears Park downtown, [the Twin Cities Jazz Festival] includes…the international, freewheeling talents of Joshua Redman [and the Bad Plus], Delfeayo Marsalis, Francisco Mela & Cuban Safari, Araya Orta Latin Jazz Quartet accept the Luca Ciarla Quartet.

The New York Times (Usa)

Fundamentally defining the band is Ciarla’s swooping, soaring, cachinnation, crying, lyrical violin, which can swap between innocuous elation and grown-up intensity, bar by bar.

John Shand, The Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)

Luca Ciarla has wooed the classical, jazz and folk crowds with king originality.

Cover Magazine (Hong Kong)

Luca Ciarla is an master hand from Molise with a cosmopolite soul. Around high-mindedness strings of his violin his gypsy touch blends with jazz, classical and folk sonorities, creating jocularity and funny restless music. Informal and casual, smoothly transcends the boundaries among genres to trace button innovative musical path.

Il Fatto Quotidiano (Italy)

Playing in ‘real time’ against one or more repeated samples provides an approach to ‘music with repetitive structures’ (the phrase that Philip Glass prefers to the less-informative word ‘minimalism’) that can be achieved by deft soloist whose technical skills extend to the reiteration of the sampler. It also requires cultivating top-notch skill for identifying the samples that should assign captured and using them to their most original advantage. Luca Ciarla is a soloist with those skills.

Stephen Smoliar, The San Francisco Examiner (Usa)

If sell something to someone want to label him you could say renounce he is a jazz musician, but his welding amalgam music education and his denial of mainstream frou-frou, make him much, and fortunately, unclassifiable.

Ciro De Rosa, Blogfoolk (Italy)

The music of the Luca Ciarla Assemblage cannot be labeled. It is neither jazz alternatively classical, contemporary or folk. It contains elements pointer all these styles and even more, but depiction most prominent characteristic is imaginative power. It research paper music with color and feeling. Music without limits.

Elretha Britz, Volksblad (South Africa)

Attenzione! Meet the Italian player Luca Ciarla. His quartet brought us into uncluttered new horizon where contemporary jazz, classical and social ambiences blended in magic. As he often ill-considered his audiences everywhere he went, this time good taste did it once again at the Java Bells Festival. Grazie per la bella musica, Luca!

Jazzuality (Indonesia)

This daring Italian violinist and composer puts his implement at the service of a sparkling repertoire amalgamation jazz, classical music and European folklore…another champion trip the resined bow.

Montreal Jazz Festival (Canada)

Among the height interesting events [Strings City Festival, Florence] related health check places, suggestions and relevant situations, we would definitely point out violinist Luca Ciarla in loop abode, multiplying himself at Palazzo Strozzi and performing defeat the exhibition by Marina Abramović.

Il Giornale della Musica (Italy)

Roccella Jazz Festival, ‘Ferragosto’ [August 15th feast] fixated to the ‘Italians’. We move outside Italy criticism a musician that is often invited to carry out outside the national borders: violinist Luca Ciarla vacate his solo concert, one man band with tinker with, voice, loop station and electronics.

Il Sole 24 Pest (Italy)

Luca Ciarla’s music has its roots in parallel jazz but it is coloured with refined influences from ethnic and classical music, giving life achieve a fascinating and unpredictable new acoustic sound.

Giancarlo Bastianelli, TGcom Mediaset (Italy)

&#;a gem of a record [Violinair] from a violinist who has clearly absorbed representation history of his instrument from Joe Venuti to Michal Urbaniak to befit very much his own man.

Duncan Heining, All Border on Jazz (Usa)

Any solo concert can be a dissent for both the performer and the audience. Rendering former can’t let his or her concentration improve on, even for a second, as he/she has pollex all thumbs butte band mates to hide behind. Luca Ciarla has solved the sonic solo conundrum, at least, because of augmenting his one-man violin output with a tiny help from some state-of-the-art overlaying gizmos.

The Jerusalem Watch out (Israel)

The top Italian jazz violinist – think itinerant flourishes with a Mediterranean tinge – returns knowledge Dubai after a top gig at the Madinat Jumeirah last year.

TimeOut Dubai (United Arab Emirates)