Erminia Nigro

Erminia Nigro graduated in 2011 at “G. da Venosa” Conservatoire in Potenza in Clarinet performance and in 2015 she achieved her Masters with highest honours under the tutelage of Vito Liuzzi.

Erminia is a regular student of annual advancede cours of Calogero Palermo at Scatola Sonora in Rome since 2010. She is regularly invited during competitions and auditions of national and international orchestras and she regularly performs both as soloists and in chamber music ensembles. Since 2013 Erminia collaborates with “Ensemble ‘05” during the Chamber Music Festival “Ritratti” in Monopoli (BA); in 2015 she has collaborated with the Italian Young Orchestra (Orchestra Giovanile Italiana) as E-flat Clarinet under the baton of Sir Jeffrey Tate. In February 2016 Erminia participated to the Radio 3 program “la Stanza della Musica” as 1st Clarinet of the Sestetto dell’Orchestra Internazionale d’Italia. Since 2013 she is member of Orchestra Internazionale d’Italia as 2nd Clarinet, performing during many editions of the prestigious Festival della Valle d'Itria which takes place in Martina Franca (TA), conducted by Fabio Luisi, OmerMeirWellber, Matteo Beltrami, MinChung, Sesto Quatrini, Karina Canellakis; in April 2017 the Orchestra had also tournée in Japan. Since 2017 Erminia is member of the Pomeriggi Musicali di Milano Orchestra as 2nd clarinet and E-Flat clarinet. With Giuseppe d’Amico, in 2016 she had the opportunity to give recitals in Mexico City at the Italian Culture Institute , in 2017 in Lima, Peru, in the cathedral. In the same period, she has been invited to give a clarinet masterclass at the National Conservatoire in Lima. Erminia founded a contemporary ensemble together with the double bassist Giuseppe D'Amico, with whom they have been frequently dedicatees of compositions by composers such as Daniele Corsi, Jean - Christophe Rosaz and other more raising ones.