Enrico Casularo

Enrico Casularo: Flautist, musicologist and organologist, he graduated brilliantly at the “S.Cecilia” Conservatory in Rome under the tutorship of Angelo Persichilli.

He continued his music studies in Holland with Master Franz Vester. He is founder and conductor of the Flatus Ensemble with which he has participated in numerous festivals and concert seasons in Italy and abroad. He carries out intensive musicological research aimed at uncovering, studying and performing the unpublished flute repertoire, especially Italian, of the Baroque and Classical periods. On period flutes of his collection he makes a number of first modern performances of compositions for flute by authors (especially Italian) of the 18th and 19th centuries. He figures as a soloist for the Italian RAI broadcasting company, the German TV and Radio broadcaster WRD Cologne, Radio Suisse Romande, Vatican Radio and appears on the labels Brilliant Classics, EMI, Edipan, Bongiovanni, Modus Inveniendi and Pentaphon, Jecklin and Flatus recording. He is author of the book Research into the history and literature of the transverse flute in the 18th century in Italy and beyond, and has also published a string of articles on performance techniques, the history, the repertoire, the organology of the transverse flute in the 18th century in flute magazines in Italy and abroad. He has published previously unpublished works for flute by Filippo Ruge, Luigi Boccherini, Giovanni Battista Sammartini, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Benedetto Marcello, Giovanni Andrea Fioroni, Niccolò Dôthel, Pietro Grassi Florio, Giuseppe Antonio Paganelli, Tebaldo Monzani, Ignaz Pleyel, Johann Baptist Wendling, Ferdinando Carulli, Antonio Nava. He regulary holds seminars and interpretation courses at prestigious American and Europeen conservatories. At the Museo Nazionale degli Strumenti Musicali di Roma, the International Ancient Music Courses in Urbino and the “Santa Cecilia” Conservatory in Rome he has given courses in the history, literature, organology and iconography of the transverse flute. Enrico Casularo worked as a musical consultant for Museo Nazionale degli Strumenti Musicali di Roma. He teaches baroque flute since 2012 at the “Santa Cecilia” Conservatory in Rome.