Fabio Di Càsola

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Fabio Di Càsola (born January 28, 1967 in Lugano ) is a Swiss clarinetist .

Career

In 1990, at the age of 23, Di Càsola won first prize at the Concours de Genève (Prix international d'interprétation & de composition), a music competition from Geneva .

This was followed by invitations to the Berlin Festival under the direction of Claudio Abbado , the Festival in Evian under the direction of Mstislav Rostropowitsch and, in Lockenhaus, to Gidon Kremer . He won the “Grand Prix Patek Philippe”, the “Prix Suisse” for contemporary music and the international competition for contemporary music in Stresa . In 1998 he was voted “Swiss Musician of the Year” by the jury and the public in Geneva. From 1991 to 2012 he was principal clarinetist in the orchestra Musikkollegium Winterthur .

After a performance of Mozart's clarinet concerto in the Tonhalle Zurich , SONY decided to publish its recordings. Two chamber music CDs were followed in 2009 by an orchestral CD with the clarinet concertos by Carl Maria von Weber , which was awarded the 'Editor's Choice' by Gramophone Magazine. Later the CD SERENADE was published with songs transcribed for clarinet and string ensemble.

Fabio Di Càsola has appeared as a soloist with the Russian National Orchestra, Prague Chamber Orchestra, Orchester de la Suisse Romande , Orchestra delle Svizzera Italiana, Lucerne Festival Strings and the Camerata Zurich, among others . He is also a member of various chamber music formations.

He is professor for clarinet and chamber music at the Zurich University of the Arts and has been the artistic director of the chamber music series www.klang.ch since 2006.

Discography

Solo albums / collaborations

  • 1991: Olivier Messiaen: Quatuor pour la Fin du Temps (Accord) (together with Ricardo Castro , Emilie Haudenschild and Emeric Kostyak )
  • 2006: Schumann: Sonatas, Opp. 105 & 121; Romances, Op. 94; Brahms: Sonatas, Op. 120 (Sony Classical)
  • 2007: Fabio Di Càsola - Grammont Portrait: Damiani, Lehmann, Jarrell, Hefti, Gerber, Pagliarani, Derungs and Jolivet (Musique Suisse)
  • 2008: Brahms / Prokofiev / Schubert: Works for… (SACD, Sony) (together with Alena Cherny )
  • 2010: Mozart: Clarinet Concerto; Symphony No. 31 (Sony Classical)
  • 2012: Weber: Concertos for Clarinet (Sony Classical)
  • 2013: Brahms: Trio for clarinet, violoncello and piano, op.114 (harmonia mundi / Aparté) (together with Ophélie Gaillard and Louis Schwizgebel-Wang)
  • 2013: Serenade - Strings for Clarinet (Sony Classical)

As a member

  • 1998: Sándor Veress : Clarinet Cto / Tromboniade / Cto for 2 Trombones (Musiques Suisses)
  • 2005: Frank Martin : Concertos (MD&G Records)
  • 2007: Serge Baudo : Richard Strauss : Une Vie D Héros; Duet Concertino (Forlane)
  • 2007: Avalon Trio / Hans Joerg Fink: Non ti scordar! (Gallo)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Fabio di Casola at Allmusic (English). Retrieved February 19, 2014.
  2. ^ A b Prof. Fabio Di Càsola. (No longer available online.) Zurich University of the Arts, archived from the original on February 24, 2014 ; Retrieved February 19, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.zhdk.ch
personal data
SURNAME Di Càsola, Fabio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss clarinetist
DATE OF BIRTH January 28, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Lugano