Giancarlo Latta

About Giancarlo

Fiercely committed to the music of our time, violinist, composer, and writer Giancarlo Latta is interested in the intersection and convergence of music old and new. Through a broad repertoire and bold dedication to wide-ranging collaborative possibilities, he curates projects and programs that explore varied compositional voices and draw threads across styles and centuries.

Latta has performed in venues as diverse as the Rothko Chapel (Houston), Royal Albert Hall (London) for the BBC Proms, and Neubad (Lucerne, Switzerland), a converted swimming pool. He has performed with flutist Claire Chase and violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja, and in 2022 was the soloist in Tyshawn Sorey’s violin concerto For Marcos Balter at the Spoleto Festival USA, where he was also concertmaster for the U.S. premiere of Anna Thorvaldsdottir’s AIŌN. Latta performs regularly as a guest with many ensembles, including Contemporaneous, Frisson, the New York Classical Players, InfraSound, S.E.M. Ensemble, and the Princeton Symphony Orchestra. He is also a co-founder and core member of the Houston-based conductorless ensemble Kinetic.

Since 2019, Latta has been a member of the acclaimed Argus Quartet, hailed by The New Yorker as a “vivacious foursome” that “plays canonical standards with authority and verve and approaches modern music with care and assurance.” With Argus, Latta has performed at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the Morgan Library, Arizona Friends of Chamber Music, UC San Diego, the University of Denver, Temple University, and many other major chamber music venues across the country.

Originally from Ann Arbor, Michigan, Latta studied with Paul Kantor at Rice University and Almita Vamos at the Music Institute of Chicago.