Luca Di Battista

LUCA DI BATTISTA
Luca Di Battista studied with internationally renowned drummers including Marcello Di Leonardo, Lorenzo Tucci and Greg Hutchinson.He graduated with full marks and honors in jazz drums at the Luisa D 'Annunzio Conservatory of Pescara.

He is the winner of prestigious competitions including the “Festival dei Conservatori Italiani” in 2013, the “Premio Abbado” in 2015 and, in the same year, a Scholarship at Columbia College in Chicago with the well-known trumpeter Dave Douglas. He records with important Italian jazz labels including Dodicilune, UR Records, Nuccia records, Maremosso, Nusica.Org, Da Vinci. Winner in 2019 of MIDJ AIR Project o for an artistic residency in Tirana (Albania) Italian Institute of Culture. He played in numerous national and international festivals in Italy, USA, Turkey including: Umbria Jazz, Umbria Jazz Winter, Adriatico Mediterraneo Festival, Pescara Jazz, Fano Jazz by the sea, Jazz Showcase Chicago, Jazz Session Istanbul. He played and recorded with: Dave Douglas, Rosario Giuliani, Maurizio Rolli, Enrico Zanisi, Luca Mannutza, Max Ionata, Gigi Cifarelli, Carlo Morena, Enrico Pieranunzi, Luca Bulgarelli, Paolo Recchia, Maria Pia De Vito, Angelo Valori, Bepi D’Amato, Bruno Tommaso, Roberto Spadoni, Massimo Morganti, Mauro Ottolini, Stefano Battaglia and many others.