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 For Marcos Balter at the Spoleto Festival USA, where he was also concertmaster for the US premiere of Anna Thorvaldsdottir’s AIŌN. Latta is a co-founder and core member of the Houston-based conductorless ensemble Kinetic, and performs regularly with many other ensembles in New York and across the country, including Orchestra of St. Luke’s, the San Diego Symphony, Contemporaneous, and the New York Classical Players. Recent festival appearances include Valley of the Moon Music Festival (California) – performing Schumann, Beethoven, and Mozart on historical instruments – Thy Chamber Music Festival (Denmark), and the Schiermonnikoog Festival Masterclasses (the Netherlands).

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.