Luca Zucchi

Luca Zucchi is a London-based singer and composer currently studying for a master’s in composition at the Royal Academy of Music. Currently studying with tenor Adrian Thompson, Luca has a particularly strong interest in Lieder, regularly performing songs and cycles by Schubert, Schumann, Mahler and Wolf alongside works by living composers. In 2024 he collaborated with director Joshua Herberg and performed in a new stage adaptation of Schubert’s ‘Winterreise’ and Beckett’s play ‘That Time’ at Pentameters theatre in London. In March he is set to perform Schumann’s ‘Liederkreis’ Op.24 alongside Robin Holloway’s partnering ‘Fantasy Pieces’ for chamber orchestra. Before studying at RAM, he read music at Clare College, Cambridge, graduating in 2024 with the Royalton Kisch Prize for the highest academic grade for music in the college and also an honorary scholarship to the university for outstanding performance. He was also awarded the Lester Brough Prize for performance at Clare College for his production of Benjamin Britten’s Noh-inspired opera ‘Curlew River’ and a series of lieder recitals he gave that year.

At RAM, Luca studies composition with Helen Grime and Philip Cashian. Recent pieces of his include ‘Fairer Westminster’ for brass quintet, commissioned by the Lord Mayor of Westminster, and ‘Drop, Drop Slow Tears’, set to be performed by Clare College Choir and conductor Graham Ross in March. He is currently working on a piece for chamber orchestra to be premiered in March by conductor Ryan Wigglesworth and a setting of Marinetti’s Futurist poem ‘Zang Tumb Tuuum’ for the Hermes Experiment. In recent years, Luca has received coaching and teaching from a number of composers including Robin Holloway, Hans Abrahamsen, Nico Muhly, Huw Watkins, Ryan Wigglesworth, and Philip Venables.