Paolo Carlini

PAOLO CARLINI (Bassoon): After graduating at the Ferrara Conservatorio in the class of Vittorio Gavioli, Paolo Carlini pursued his studies with Marco Costantini and Klaus Thunemann.

He was first bassoonist at Orchestra della Toscana since 1987 and has held this position at Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Teatro dell’Opera in Rome, Fenice in Venice, Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Orchestra Sinfonica della Rai in Rome and Filarmonica della Scala under conductors Claudio Abbado, Riccardo Muti, Myung-Whun Chung, Esa Pekka Salonen, Eliahu Inbal, Daniel Harding, Daniele Gatti, Rafael Fruhbek de Burgos, Neville Marriner, Jeffrey Tate. He has played as soloist with conductors Hubert Soudant, Gabriele Ferro, Donato Renzetti, Marco Angius, Zsolt Hamar, Berislav Skanderovic, Marzio Conti, Marco Zuccarini, Lior Shambadal, Yuri Bashmet and the Moscow Soloists. As a chamber musician he has performed at Carnegie Hall, New York; Mozarteum, Salzburg; Auditorium of the Conservatory, Tel Aviv; Auditorio Nacional, Madrid; Concert Hall in Tokyo and Hong-Kong. Ha has always been interested in contemporary music and has worked with Luciano Berio, Sylvano Bussotti, Ludovico Einaudi, Sofia Gubaidulina, Jean Francaix. Works for solo bassoon have been dedicated to him by Ennio Morricone, Luis Bacalov, Azio Corghi, Luis De Pablo, Giorgio Gaslini, Carlo Boccadoro, Carlo Galante, Marco Betta, Claudio Ambrosini, Giorgio Colombo Taccani. As a soloist he has recorded for labels Sony Classical, CPO, Chandos, Naxos, Tactus, Bongiovanni, Fonè, and his recordings are regularly broadcast by Radio France, Bayerisches Rundfunk, ORF, WDR, SWF, NDR, Radio Swiss Classic, Rai Radio 3. He is regularly invited to give master classes at Conservatoire Superieure de Lyon, New York University, Conservatorio Superior in Sevilla, Haute Ecole de Musique in Lausanne.