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Infobox musical artist| name = Luca Turilli|image =| birth_name = Luca Turilli| alias =| background = non_vocal_instrumentalist| birth_date = birth date and age|1972|3|5|birth_place = Trieste , Italy | death_date =| origin =| instrument = Guitar , Keyboard instrument|keyboards , drums , vocals | occupation = Musician , songwriter | genre = Power metal , neo-classical metal , symphonic metal | years_active = 1993–present| Partner = Nadia Bellir (1999-present)| label =| associated_acts = Rhapsody of Fire Luca Turilli's Dreamquest | website = Luca Turilli (born 5 March 1972cite web |url= http://www.metal-archives.com/band.php? id=388 |title=Luca Turilli |publisher= Encyclopaedia Metallum |work=metal-archives.com |accessdate=2010-10-22) is an Italy|Italian musician (primarily a guitarist) and composer. He is one of the founders of the Symphonic_Metal#Symphonic_power_metal|symphonic power metal band Rhapsody of Fire .cite web|url= http://rhapsodyoffire.com/band/luca-turilli.html |title=Luca Turilli |work=rhapsodyoffire.com |accessdate=2010-10-22 He also worked on a trilogy of solo albums as Luca Turilli (band)|Luca Turilli . He has now formed a second side band, named Luca Turilli's Dreamquest , alongside Dominique Leurquin,cite web |url= http://www.epic-metal.com/dreamquest2006/band.php |title=Luca Turilli's Dreamquest |work=epic-metal.com |accessdate=2010-10-22 which released its first album, '' Lost Horizons (Luca Turilli's Dreamquest album)|Lost Horizons '', in the summer of 2006.cite web |url= http://www.epic-metal.com/dreamquest2006/releases.php |title=Luca Turilli's Dreamquest releases |accessdate=2010-10-22 |work=epic-metal.com More recently in fall 2008 he also began an online guitar course, titled ''Luca Turilli's Neoclassical Revelation . The course takes its name from his neoclassical playing style.cite web |url= http://www.neoclassicalrevelation.com/ |title=Neoclassical Guitar Lessons |work=neoclassicalrevelation.com |accessdate=2010-10-22
On every Rhapsody of Fire album, Luca is the only lyricist and composes all the music with the keyboardist, Alex Staropoli (except for Il Canto del Vento written, lyrics and music, by the vocalist, Fabio Lione) and plays most of the lead guitars. He composes all the music for both his solo projects. He plays guitars on his solo trilogy and keyboards with Luca Turilli's Dreamquest featuring Dominique Leurquin as the guitarist. In his career he sold more more than 1.5 million copies of his albums defining a new style of music based on the impact of rock and the one of the most epic soundtracks.
On August 2011 Turilli and Staropoli proceeded to a friendly split. Alex agreed to go on as Rhapsody of Fire while Luca decided to move on as Luca Turilli's Rhapsody , adding his name on top of the Rhapsody logo because of copyright reasons and old legal settlements. At the same time he decided to stop the activity with his solo band to dedicate himself to the new Rhapsody band only.
On June 22, 2012, the first album of Luca Turilli's Rhapsody , entitled ASCENDING TO INFINITY, will be released by Nuclear Blast. The style of the new band is promoted as "cinematic metal" to underline Luca Turilli's passion for the world of cinema and the soundtracks, yet the main influence of his new artistic proposal. In it Luca plays both the guitars and the keyboards and again arranges by himself every note of the orchestra. He is also the only composer and producer of the same album, recorded for the first time at the Backyard Studios of Kempten (Germany) with the sound engineer Sebastian Roeder, who also mixed it.
==Gear Turilli uses custom "Luca Turilli" electric guitars made by the French luthier Cristopher Capelli. He has four of them (blue,black, red and white) Specifications: Pickups are Dimarzio Tone Zone (bridge position) and Dimarzio Air Norton (neck). It has also original Floyd rose and a custom "vine" mother pearl inlay. 22 frets.
He has used Ibanez guitars in the past (Ibanez S540 LTD). For acoustic parts, he uses Gibson acoustic guitars.
He has used Mesa Boogie amplifiers and Marshall cabs. During his last tour 2011 he has been seeing playing through an ENGL powerball II connected to some rack effects unit.
Biography
Turilli was born in Trieste , Venezia Giulia . Due to the influence of his father, he became interested in European classical music|classical music and learned to play piano and guitar . In 1993 he founded the band Thundercross, which was renamed Rhapsody after releasing the first demo,cite web|url= http://whiplash.net/materias/biografias/038391-rhapsody.html|title=Rhapsody - Biografias|accessdate=5 January 2010 and renamed once again to Rhapsody of Fire for copyright reasons in 2006.
In interviews, he has said that Manowar , Blind Guardian , Helloween , and Crimson Glory are influences on him and the rest of Rhapsody Of Fire .
Playing style
Luca Turilli is considered one of the most influential and prominent modern power metal guitarists. He is influenced by guitarists such as Yngwie Malmsteen and Jason Becker with his neo-classical structuring and phrasing. His lead playing often includes extensive use of sweep picked arpeggios, tremolo picking, classically influenced phrases, and scales such as Aeolian mode|aeolian , harmonic minor , phrygian mode , locrian , and melodic minor . In his latest albums he introduced new ethnic elements too (Hirajoshi and Pentatonic scales).
Reflist Rhapsody of Fire Use dmy dates|date=August 2010 Persondata | NAME =Turilli, Luca | ALTERNATIVE NAMES = | SHORT DESCRIPTION = | DATE OF BIRTH =5 March 1972 | PLACE OF BIRTH = Trieste , Italy | DATE OF DEATH = | PLACE OF DEATH = DEFAULTSORT:Turilli, Luca Category:1972 births Category:Rhapsody of Fire Category:Living people Category:People from Trieste Category:Heavy metal guitarists Category:Italian musicians Category:Italian guitarists
