Elisa La Marca graduated with honors in classical guitar at the age of 19 at Milano Conservatory “Giuseppe Verdi” after studying at the Civica suola di Musica under the guidance of Paola Coppi.
She attended specialization Masters with Lorenzo Micheli, Matteo Mela, Stefano Grondona and advanced seminars at the Accademia Chigiana in Siena held by Oscar Ghiglia, receiving the Diploma of Merit in 2009.
Biography
As a soloist she just released her first solo album named The Queenes Masks - A Varietie of Lute music from the Early English Court published by label Arcana-Outhere (Nominated for Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik in april 2025). She was recently guest at the Colorado Guitar Festival in Boulder and at the Uri Guitar Festival at the University of Rhode Island for Solo Recitals, Masterclasses, and invited to be part of the juror for international competitions (CU International Guitar Competition-Colorado, UriGuitarCompetition- Rhode Island, New Zealand Young Talent Music Competition Baroque, Kithara Project Virtual Guitar Competition).
As a basso continuo player she performed with: Il Giardino Armonico Giovanni Antonini, Zefiro Alfredo Bernardini, Les Musiciens du Prince- Cecilia Bartoli Gianluca Capuano , English Baroque Soloists-Monteverdi Choir Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Cappella Mediterranea Leonardo Garcia Alarcon, Il Pomo d'oro Maxim Emelyanychev and George Petrou, the Filarmonica and Cameristi della Scala in Milan, the Orchestra del Maggio Fiorentino at the Florence Opera , Ensemble Artaserse Philippe Jaroussky, Accademia dell'Annunciata and Estrovagante Riccardo Doni, Ensemble Between the strings Margret Koell, Il Canto di Orfeo, Accademia Montis Regalis, Balthasar Neumann Ensemble Thomas Hengelbrock, Odhecaton Paolo da Col, Laboratorio '600 Franco Pavan, Ensemble Sezione Aurea, Coro e Ensemble Costanzo Porta, La Magnifica Comunità, Concerto Romano, La Lira di Orfeo, Wroclaw Baroque Orchestra, I Pomeriggi Musicali, Stavanger Orkester and many other conductors and soloists such as Christophe Rousset, Dimitry Sinkovsky, Giovanni Sollima, Mario Brunello, Giuliano Carmignola, Federico Maria Sardelli, Stefano Montanari… This year she played in duo with tenor Ian Bostridge in Mantua for festival Trame Sonore. She is co-founder of the Quartetto di Luti da Milano, an ensemble of lutes dedicated to the repertoire of the Renaissance and early Italian Baroque.
The recording Vita de la mia vita has been best album of the month Amadeus, April 2015. She has performed in concert halls including Teatro alla Scala Milano, Wiener Staatsoper, Opera de Versailles, Salzburger Festspiele, Berliner Konzerthaus, Theater an der Wien, Elbphilarmonie Hamburg, Opera de Monte Carlo Principato di Monaco, Philarmonie Koeln, Theatre des Champselysees Parigi, Palau de la Musica Catalana Barcelona , Salzburg Haus fuer Mozart, Mozarteum Grosser Saal, Monaco Isar Philarmonie , NFM Wroclaw-Wratislavia Cantans, KKl Luzern, Innsbrucker Festwochen der Alten Musik, BachFest Lipsia , Auditorium di Lanzhou Cina, MiTo Settembre musica, Sala Cecilia Meireles Rio de Janeiro, Auditorium Parco della Musica Roma, deSingel Anversa, deOOsterport Groningen,, Laeiszhalle Hamburg, Glocke Brema, St.Petrburg Chamber Opera, Misteria Paschalia Festival Krakov, Anger Opera Nantes, Duesseldorf Tonhalle, Palacio de festivales Santander, Auditorium Kursaal San Sebastian Salzburger Festspiele, Oude Muziek Utrecht and many more.
She has participated in broadcasts and recorded for RSI Radio Svizzera Italiana, Radio 3, Rai 5, Mezzo Tv, Medicitv, Musicaviva-Egea, Erato, Arcana, Brilliant Classics, Glossa, Da Vinci Records. She is currently Lute teacher at the F.Vittadini conservatory in Pavia.