Luca Lombardi (composer)

Luca Lombardi (born 24 December 1945) is an Italian composer.
Biography.
Lombardi was born in Rome. He studied composition initially with Armando Renzi and Roberto Lupi, later enrolling at the Pesaro Conservatory where he studied with Boris Porena, receiving his diploma in 1970. He then studied musicology at the University of Rome, graduating with a thesis on Hanns Eisler. From 1968 to 1972 he lived in Cologne where he studied with Karlheinz Stockhausen, Henri Pousseur, Mauricio Kagel, Dieter Schnebel, and Frederic Rzewski at the Cologne Courses for New Music, and with Bernd Alois Zimmermann at the Hochschule für Musik. He also studied for a time in Berlin with Paul Dessau in 1973 at the DDR Academy of Arts, Berlin. From 1973–1994 he was a professor of composition at the Conservatories of Pesaro and Milan, since then he is a freelance composer. 
He composed around 160 works, including 4 operas, 3 symphonies, as well as numerous orchestral works and chamber music. His vocal-symphonic composition "Italia mia" was first performed at Milan’s La Scala in February 2012.
He is a member of the Academy of Arts in Berlin and of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts (Munich).
Personnal life.
He divides his time between the Lake Albano (Rome) and Tel Aviv.
Lombardi became an Israeli citizen : "as a small sign of solidarity with a land whose very existence stands in question".