LUCA POMA

A self taught musician and a rocker from an early age, he started playin’ guitar at 15, following the footsteps of his favourite guitar players. His influences as a player and composer has never changed through the years and include guitar players like Jimi Hendrix, Uli Jon Roth, Ritchie Blackmore, Yngwie Malmsteen, Michael Schenker and classical composers like Bach, Paganini, Vivaldi, Chopin, Pietro Antonio Locatelli and Scarlatti, amongst others. While playin’ in bands, always personal projects created around him to play his original songs and a handful of covers of his favourites bands ( Deep Purple, Rainbow, Malmsteen, Hendrix and Europe) he started to play in 2006 as touring guitar player with world famous artists like Uli Jon Roth ( Scorpions/ Electric Sun), Francis Bucholz (Scorpions), Kee Marcello ( Europe), Vinnie Moore ( U.F.O.), T.M. Stevens ( Joe Cocker-Tina Turner-Miles Davis-Steve Vai), Graham Oliver e Steve Dawson ( Saxon), Mike Terrana ( Malmsteen-Rage), Ule Ritgen (Zeno- Fair Warning-Electric Sun), Michael Ehrè ( Gamma Ray-Primal Fear). While doin’ this he also had the opportunity to play in special events with Kai Hansen ( Helloween), Tobias Sammet ( Edguy-Avantasia), Stu Hamm ( Joe Satriani) and many others. In 2012 he created his band Moon Reverie, a Neoclassical Metal Ensemble, to play exclusively his material and to put his vision into reality. The band material is influenced by bands like Rainbow, Deep Purple, Malmsteen, Scorpions, Europe, Hendrix and by the classical music of the Baroque/Romantic era. The band played as opening act for Michael Angelo Batio, Uli Jon Roth, Vinnie Moore and did special shows with Graham Oliver guesting the band. The latest album, called “Moon Reverie”,is out now in Europe, U.S., South America, Russia and Japan and is having a very warm welcome and great reviews in all major magazines, websites and blogs all over the world.