Dr. Luiz Moretto is a multi-instrumentalist, ethnomusicologist, and composer whose work incorporates ethnic elements of rhythm and timbre into the open and closed structures of jazz and Brazilian music, reflecting the spontaneity of free experimentation. Inspired by the musical traditions of bowed string instruments from Africa and Brazil, he has made this the focus of his current research. Luiz is currently a CNPq researcher and visiting scholar at Unicamp, Brazil.

Growing up in a musical family, Luiz received a Bachelor's degree in Classical Music from UDESC, the University of Santa Catarina, in 1998. He later earned his doctorate from King's College London, under the joint supervision of Professor David Treece and Dr. Frederick Moehn.

His latest album, Vampyroteuthis Infernalis, by the Luiz Moretto Quintet, was recorded in Rome in 2014 and released in January 2015 on the UK label SLAM. Blending Afro-Brazilian musical expressions with Italian free jazz aesthetics, the album received critical acclaim from publications including Jazz Journal, Cadence Magazine, Jazz Views, Jazz Weekly (top ten albums of 2015), Jazz Colours, Jazzwise, Jazz.pt, Le Son Du Grisli, Bird is the Worm, Music Zoom, Free Form Free Jazz, Breakaplate, and Downtown Music Gallery.

With improvisation as his central focus, Luiz has explored the collision between jazz, free jazz, African, Brazilian, and improvised music throughout his career. He has collaborated, performed, and recorded across Europe and the UK with artists from music, dance, and film, including London Improvisers Orchestra, Wadada Leo Smith, Veryan Weston, Filó Machado, Alípio C. Neto, Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra, Clarence Becton, Mark Sanders, John Edwards, Francesco Lo Cascio, Marco Ariano, Gianfranco Tedeschi, Simon Gall, Mike Rae, Fraser Peterkin, Marcio Mattos, Marilza Gouvea, Ashley Walles, Charlotte Hug, Greg Burk, Alison Blunt, Benedict Taylor, Paloma Carrasco, David Leahy, Hardedge, Paulo Duarte, Christopher Williams, Danny Keane, Seth Bennett, Ildefons Alonso, Ruda Santos, Victor Gama, Antonio Tavares, VGO Variable Geometry Orchestra, Ernesto Rodrigues, Stolen Project, Orlando Legname, Embaúba Ensemble, King's Brazil Ensemble, Xangai, Refilon, Gui Tavares, Manu Pontes, Marcinho Pereira, Cris Lee, Rachel Hay, Madeleine Machado, Gabriel Hoskin, José de Castro, Genitho Rasta, Ngoma Mozambique, Marcelo Fortuna, Dinoel Gandini, Johannes Krieger, and Mick Trovoada, among others.