Angelo Litrico

Angelo Litrico: Clarinet player, teacher and researcher, Angelo Litrico ha based his musical experience mainly in the field of classical music with a repertoire ranging from later baroque to the beginning of the twentieth century.

Born in Catania (Italy) he graduated there in clarinet at the Istituto Musicale Vincenzo Bellini and after his diploma, he perfected his studies in Palermo with Vittorio Luna. In 2001 he met in Paris the clarinet player and woodwind maker Gilles Thomé who introduce him to the study of historical clarinet, practice that he developed in Holland with Eric Hoeprich at the Koninklijke Conservatorium.
He has played in different countries for institutions such as: Gelderse muziekzomer Festival, C.N.S.M. Paris, Musica Antiqua Brugge, Amici della Musica, Robeco Zomer Concerten, Van Vlaanderen Festival, Musicales Guil-Durance. He also got the first prize in several Chamber music competitions.
A follower of historical informed practice, he has devoted himself to the research of the repertoire of his instrument and to the history and development of the single reed, knowledge that he shared in several seminars and master classes held at various Italian and foreign high schools of music.
With the support of the French wind instrument maker Olivier Cottet, he started an atelier in Catania in 2018 where he makes copies of clarinets from the 17th and 18th centuries.
He is clarinet professor in a junior high school for music since 2003 and he is the editor of a series of chamber music books for wind instrument published by Edizioni Novecento.