Mario Caroli

Mario Caroli (* 1974 ) is an Italian flautist.

Career

Caroli studied flute with Annamaria Morini . The flautist Manuela Wiesler had a great influence on him . In 1996 he won the Kranichstein Music Prize of the International Summer Course for New Music in Darmstadt . The following year he completed his philosophy degree summa cum laude with a thesis on Nietzsche's The Antichrist .

The virtuoso soloist, whose repertoire ranges from classical flute literature to avant-garde works, has performed with important orchestras such as the London Philharmonia Orchestra , the WDR Orchestra in Cologne and the Italian Radio Symphony Orchestra under conductors such as Pierre Boulez , Péter Eötvös , Heinz Holliger and Emilio Pomàrico , Kazushi Ōno , Ilan Volkov and Oswald Sallaberger and worked a. a. with the Neue Vocalisten Stuttgart , Les Percussions de Strasbourg and the Schola Heidelberg . Numerous modern composers have dedicated works to him: James Dillon , Ivan Fedele , Brian Ferneyhough , Stefano Gervasoni , Toshio Hosokawa , György Kurtág , Betsy Jolas , Bruno Mantovani , Kaija Saariaho , Salvatore Sciarrino , Marco Stroppa and Jōji Yuasa . Sciarrino called him the Paganini of the flute , a musician without technical limits .

Caroli teaches at the Conservatoire National in Strasbourg and gives master classes a. a. at the Juilliard School of Music in New York , the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki and the Tohe College in Tokyo .