Luca Pasquini is an NYC-based composer and interdisciplinary artist exploring the complexity of human emotions through themes of the natural, supernatural, and digital worlds, often meditating on memory and connection. His work spans various mediums, from the concert music stage to music for dance and film.

His work has received recognition from the ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Awards, Tribeca New Music Young Composer Competition, Voices of Change Maria Schleuning Composer Competition, the YoungArts Foundation, the National Young Composers Challenge, the Marvin Hamlisch International Music Awards, and more. Recently, he was commissioned by LA-based all-star chamber group Salastina for his work “Haven”, NYC-based dance company Eryc Taylor Dance for their new project “The Knowing”, and was a recipient of an ArtzEnter Institute Emerging Composer Completion Grant for a new chamber orchestra work, “Memories of Storm and Light”, for the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players. Luca has also collaborated with esteemed ensembles including the Rhythm Method Quartet, Hub New Music, UnheardOf Ensemble, Playground Ensemble, Dither, Chamber Project St. Louis, and the New York University orchestra. He has taken part in programs such as the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival New Music Workshop, Connecticut Summerfest, Salastina Sounds Promising, Yellow Barn Young Artists Program, and Boston University Tanglewood Institute. Luca recently earned his Bachelor of Music Theory and Composition from the New York University Steinhardt School. His mentors have included Michael Gordon, Robert Honstein, Justin Dello Joio, and Leanna Kirchoff.