Gianluca Sciarpelletti

BIOGRAPHY The son of an Italian tenor and an American soprano, Gianluca Sciarpelletti grew up in the presente of some of the world’s greatest musicians - listening to and ‘inhaling’ the performances of family friends such as Luigi Ricci, Licia Albanese, Mario Filippeschi, Anita Cerquetti, and great American tenor Richard Tucker, - inspiring his great passion for classical music. It was, however, the renowned conductor Franco Ferrara who first launched Gianluca’s musical education at the age of 6 by teaching him how to play the violin. He continued his violin studies at the Conservatory of Music ‘Licinio Refice’ Frosinone, but later switched to Voice, studying first under the tutelage of his parents, and then at the National Conservatory of Santa Cecilia in Rome where he graduated with high