An Italian violinist is headed back to Haines for a second concert, and – he hopes – to find bears again.
The Haines Arts Council is hosting Luca Ciarla who is touring the U.S., Panama and Cuba before heading to Southeast Alaska.
His show, titled “Luca Ciarla’s solOrkestra,” includes a looping pedal and multiple layered instruments. In this program, A Classy Call, he’s playing his arrangements of classical masterpieces from Bach’s Goldberg Variations to Ravel’s Bolero.
“There are works that are part of our DNA by now and I guess loving music means also trying to reinterpret and reinvent the past,” Ciarla said in an email.
When asked about any one in particular he enjoys subverting with a looping pedal, he said that from Take Five to Bolero – he loves them all. He said he wants his audience to “close their eyes and try to fly” with him when they come to the show.
Ciarla is often described as a genre-bending artist. According to his biography, he moved to the U.S. in 1996, studying first in Indiana and then in Arizona where he also taught violin for a few years.
Since then, he has traveled the world, collaborated with artists like Joshua Bell and founded the production company Voiolipiano.
In Haines, he’s set to arrive on Feb. 10 and will offer a workshop on Feb. 11. Ciarla said people should be prepared to learn how music could be a space to be creative.
Luca Ciarla is playing at the Chilkat Center for the Arts at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 11. Tickets are $20 at the door, students get in free.