Luca LaMarca
Composer, Arranger, Live Electronic Performer

Luca LaMarca is a composer, improviser, pianist, and arranger from Nevada City, CA. His music combines emotional precision with intricate detail, exploring highly specific topics and experiences through expressive writing and production. With a deep commitment to emotional and musical clarity, Luca crafts chamber and film music that resonates on a physical and personal level.

 

Luca’s chamber works and art songs have been featured in concerts with the nonprofit group InConcert Sierra, and performed by violinist Sara Saviet and the contemporary piano trio Longleash at UC Santa Barbara. He’s also had work featured in the Santa Monica-based Sunset Chamberfest. Luca is a core member of UCSB’s premier comedy improv group Improvability, where he provides live musical improvisation for popular weekly performances. He’s contributed scores to award-winning films featured at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, the SYRCL Wild and Scenic Film Festival, and the REEL Loud Film and Arts Festival. Luca has also arranged film scores and popular songs for performance by the UCSB Pops Orchestra.

 

Luca is a graduate of the InConcert Sierra Young Composers Project and a current undergraduate student in the UCSB College of Creative Studies Music Composition program.