After his first engagement at the Prague State Opera, Luca De Marchi worked as a répétiteur at numerous opera houses and festivals in Italy (Teatro La Fenice in Venice, Teatro Comunale in Bologna, Ferrara Musica), Austria (Salzburg Festival, Bregenz Festival), Germany (Mainz, Darmstadt, and Dortmund, as Head of Music staff and Conductor), France, Switzerland (Lucerne), Norway (Bergen), Spain, and China (Beijing).
At the Vienna State Opera, he was responsible for the Italian repertoire and performed as a harpsichordist in productions of "Le nozze di Figaro" and "Il barbiere di Siviglia" with the Wiener Philharmoniker .
Together with Giuseppe Sinopoli and the Wiener Staatsoper, he participated in a tour of Japan, performing in Tokyo and Yokohama.
Luca De Marchi has collaborated with renowned conductors such as Claudio Abbado, Fabio Luisi, Donald Runnicles, Myung-Whun Chung, Carlo Rizzi, Sir Mark Elder, and Vladimir Jurowski.
Additionally, he has worked as a keyboardist in numerous orchestral concerts and CD/DVD recordings with the Wiener Symphoniker.
As a guest conductor, he has worked with the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra, the Prague Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto, the National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra, the Dortmund Philharmonic and the Janáček Opera Orchestra of Brno.
He is currently Music director of the Festival Retz (Austria).
As a harpsichordist, he has performed concerts with the Venice Baroque Orchestra in the USA (New York Carnegie Hall, Los Angeles Disney Concert Hall), Canada (Toronto Roy Thomson Hall), and Italy (Rome Chamber Music Festival).
Currently, Luca De Marchi is Associate professor at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts. He has held Masterclasses in vocal performance at the National Music Academies in Dresden (Germany), Vilnius (Lithuania) , Riga (Latvia), for the Dmitri Hvorostovsky Foundation (Russia) and the ISing Festival Suzhou (China).
His training took place in Italy, where he studied piano with Massimo Somenzi, composition with Fabio Vacchi and orchestral conducting with Michael Gielen at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. He specialized in opera coaching at Teatro alla Scala di Milano.
