Luca Turilli (musician)

Infobox musical artist
Name = Luca Turilli

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Birth_name = Luca Turilli
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Background = non_vocal_instrumentalist
Born = birth date and age|1972|3|5
Trieste, Italy
Died =
Origin =
Instrument = Guitar, Keyboard
Occupation = Musician, Songwriter
Genre = Power metal, Symphonic metal, Progressive metal, Neo-classical metal, Electronica
Years_active = 1993 - present
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Associated_acts = Rhapsody of Fire
Luca Turilli's Dreamquest
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Luca Turilli (born 5 March 1972) is an Italian musician (primarily a guitarist) and composer. He is one of the founders of the symphonic power metal band Rhapsody of Fire. He also worked on a trilogy of solo albums as Luca Turilli. He has now formed a second side band, named Luca Turilli's Dreamquest, alongside Dominique Leurquin, which released its first album, "Lost Horizons", in the summer of 2006. 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.

On every Rhapsody of Fire albums, 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.

Gear

Turilli uses "Luca Turilli" electric guitars made by the french luthier Cristopher Capelli, and Gibson acoustic guitars.

Biography

Turilli was born in Trieste, Venezia Giulia. Due to the influence of his father, he became interested in 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, and renamed once again to Rhapsody of Fire for copyright reasons in 2006. Turilli says that if he didn't play music, he would like to be a video game designer.Fact|date=June 2008

Discography

Luca Turilli

* "King of the Nordic Twilight" - 1999
** "The Ancient Forest of Elves" (Single) - 1999
* "Prophet of the Last Eclipse" - 2002
** "Demonheart" Single - 2002
* "The Infinite Wonders of Creation" - 2006

Luca Turilli's Dreamquest

* "Lost Horizons" - 2006
** "Virus" (Single) - 2006

Rhapsody of Fire

* "Legendary Tales" - 1997
* "Symphony of Enchanted Lands" - 1998
** "Emerald Sword" (Single) - 1998
* "Dawn of Victory" - 2000
** "Holy Thunderforce" (Single) - 2000
** "Rain of a Thousand Flames" (EP) - 2001
* "Power of the Dragonflame" - 2002
** "The Dark Secret" (EP) - 2004
* "" - 2004
** "The Magic of the Wizard's Dream" (Single) - 2005
* "" - 2006
* "Triumph or Agony" - 2006
* "Visions from the Enchanted Lands" (DVD) - 2007

See also

* Rhapsody of Fire
* Luca Turilli
* Luca Turilli's Dreamquest