Marco luparia is a piedmontese musician, composer, media artist and percussionist developing an idiom embracing electro-acoustic possibilities and a variety of ancient music traditions. Some of the recurrent themes in their production are: mystic ruralism, memory distortion and gender identification.
Their present output can take very different shapes, from large ensemble compositions, to sound installations and improvised solo performances.

Studies
● 2021-2023 Master cum laude in jazz and improvised music at Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et Danse de Paris. Specialization in gamelan, electro-acoustic composition and improvisation générative.
● 2016-2020 Bachelor degree in jazz drums at Royal Conservatory of the Hague. Specialization in classical and contemporary percussion and indian carnatic music

In parallel to their main studies, Marco has explored contemporary percussion repertoire, carnatic music, composition, electro-acoustic techniques, diy instruments building, gamelan, orchestration, av installations and conducting.
All these fields of interest merge into a multi-faceted artistic research, which focuses on the intersections between non-idiomatic improvisation and contemporary composition, transdisciplinary art and multimedia possibilities, early and electronic music, non-western ceremonial traditions and queer theories.

Besides their main projects (benben, masnä, frantx, fade in, anaphora), marco is often commissioned composition works for gamelan ensemble nist-nah and ensemble sandikala. He was awarded composition prizes from matters/kaunas (ltu) and he notably participated to the academie des musiques transculturelles of fondation royaumont in 2024 and to ircam's max msp training course.

They often collaborates with the dancers and choreographers carole bordes, thomas brena, camilla monga, johanna faye and saido lehlouh. Marco is the founder of quois, an association based in northern italy that aims to fertilize the territory’s contemporary artistic realities through cross-pollination events featuring in residence composers and ensembles from all over europe.

Marco performed in italy, france, luxembourg, belgium, germany, denmark, poland, the netherlands, switzerland, portugal and in the following festivals: rewire (2019), umbria jazz (2019), fara jazz (2019), tilburg jazz festival (2019), veneto jazz (2021), détours de babel (2022-23), space is the place (2022), vicenza jazz (2023), novara jazz (2023), sile jazz (2023), maderna jazz (2023), mantoue jazz (2023), north sea jazz (2023), porta-jazz (2024), causa efeito (2024)