Luciano Chessa, composer, conductor, pianist, has been active in Europe, the U.S., Australia, and South America. Luciano Chessa holds a D.M.A. in Piano performance and a M.A. in Composition from the G.B. Martini Conservatory of Music in Bologna, Italy, a M.A. in History of Medieval Music from the University of Bologna, and a Ph.D. in Musicology and Music Criticism from the University of California at Davis. Recent compositions include Set and Setting, a San Francisco Contemporary Music Players commission premiered by Steven Schick and the SFCMP in 2014, LIGHTEST, a SFMOMA commission presented in 2013, and Squeeze! Squeeze! Squeeze!, a large-scale work written for the quartertone vibe/quartertone electric guitar duo The Living Earth Show in 2013. Chessa is the author of Luigi Russolo Futurist. Noise, Visual Arts, and the Occult, the first monograph ever to be dedicated to the Futurist Russolo and his Art of Noise, out on University of California Press in 2012. Chessa’s Futurist expertise has resulted in an invitation by the New York-based Biennial of the Arts PERFORMA to direct the first reconstruction project of Russolo’s earliest intonarumori orchestra. A double LP dedicated to his Orchestra of Futurist Noise Intoners (featuring Mike Patton, Tony Conrad, Blixa Bargeld, Joan La Barbara, Jennifer Walshe, Ellen Fullman, Elliott Sharp, Pauline Oliveros, Ulrich Krieger, Carla Kihlstedt, John Butcher) has been released on the Belgian label Sub Rosa. In 2011 Chessa conducted the project with the New World Symphony in their new Frank Gehry designed Concert Hall as part of a Performa-produced event to celebrate 10 years of Art Basel | Miami Beach. Luciano Chessa teaches at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, serves in the Advisory Board of TACET, the international research publication dedicated to Experimental Music from the Université Paris 1/Panthéon-Sorbonne, is a member of the Steering Committee of the SF Electronic Music Festival, and collaborates with SF’s Italian Cultural Institute. His music is published by Edizioni Carrara and by RAI TRADE, the Italian National Broadcast Channels’ music publishing company.