Gianluca Lusi, saxophonist, clarinetist, composer and arranger born in 1975. He graduates in saxophone and jazz music disciplines with full marks at the Conservatory, attends the advanced course in jazz music, improvisation and ensemble music at the Berklee Summer School. In 2008 he made his first international tour in the United States, which ended at the prestigious “The University of Southern” in Hattiesburg in Mississippi. Currently a Miur teacher, he has been a saxophone teacher in free jazz courses and beyond at the Casa del Jazz in Rome, in collaboration with the Santa Cecilia Conservatory of Rome and a jazz saxophone teacher at the Praeneste Music Academy in Rome. His activity as a concert player was very intense, he had the opportunity to play in the great Italian and foreign circuits (U.S.A., Japan, France, Slovenia, Croatia, Hungary) with internationally renowned Italian and foreign artists: Danilo Rea, Maurizio Giammarco, Paolo Damiani, Fabrizio Bosso, Roberto Gatto, Giovanni Amato, Luigi Masciari, Joel Holmes, Reuben Rogers, Gregory Hutchinson, Jeremy Monteiro, Ameen Saleem, Darryl Hall, Larry Panella, Bill Carrothers, Andy Gravish, Olivier Hutman. He has released several albums including Gotha 17 (Splasc (h) Records), Rune (Blue Serge), Loose (Tosky Records), What’s New (Caligola Records), Never Fault Behind The Scenes (Tosky Records).