Mario Carbotta
The flutist Mario Carbotta has captivated audiences worldwide with performances in New York, Montreal, Tokyo, London, Beijing, Geneva, São Paulo, Istanbul, Brussels, and Bucharest, in prestigious venues such as the Goldener Saal of the Wiener Musikverein, the Rudolfinum in Prague, the Tonhalle in Zurich, Bulgaria Hall in Sofia, the Cairo Opera House, the Glenn Gould Studio of CBC in Toronto, and the Seoul Arts Center. He has also been a guest at international festivals such as Santander, Peralada, Flanders, Ljubljana, Varna, and Zagreb.
He studied in Italy, at the Conservatory of Piacenza, where he graduated with honors in 1984, and attended advanced training courses at the Scuola di Musica in Fiesole from 1985 to 1988, under the guidance of teachers such as M. Saletti, E. Egaddi, A. Danesin, and M. Ancillotti. A winner of numerous competitions, including the prestigious Francesco Cilea competition in Palmi in 1988, he began his career at a very young age, first in opera and symphony orchestras, then as a soloist and chamber musician, performing concerts throughout Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and the Americas.
He has performed a vast part of the solo repertoire, accompanied by more than 80 internationally renowned symphony and chamber orchestras, including the Tonkünstler-Orchester Niederösterreich Wien, European Union Chamber Orchestra, Slovak Sinfonietta, Sofia Sinfonietta, Cairo Symphony Orchestra, Istanbul State Symphony Orchestra, State Symphony Orchestra of Mexico, Israel Sinfonietta, China Film Philharmonic Beijing, as well as in Italy with orchestras in Milan (Pomeriggi Musicali), Bari, Parma, Sanremo, Palermo (FOSS), L'Aquila, Ancona; in Germany with orchestras in Mainz, Mannheim, Frankfurt (Deutsches Kammerorchester), Oldenburg, Sondershausen, Konstanz; in Poland with the philharmonics of Bydgoszcz, Kraków, Rzeszów, Szczecin, Katowice, Koszalin; and in the Czech Republic with the philharmonics of České Budějovice, Teplice, and Zlín (Bohuslav Martinů Philharmonic).
He has collaborated with prestigious artists and ensembles such as the Camerata of São Paulo (Brazil), Cremona Quartet, I Solisti Aquilani, Archi della Scala, Wiener Kammerorchester, the RTSI Choir of Lugano conducted by Diego Fasolis, the Juventus Collegium of the Prague Symphony Orchestra (FOK), as well as violinists Luigi Alberto Bianchi, Mario Hossen, Marco Bianchi (Giardino Armonico); mandolinist Avi Avital; harpist Cristina Bianchi; pianists Roberto Cognazzo and Carlo Balzaretti; and flutists Philippe Bernold and Angelo Persichilli.
He also has extensive experience in conducting, having worked with the Civica Orchestra di Fiati di Milano, the Sanremo Symphony Orchestra, the Bari Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, the Emilia-Romagna Regional Orchestra "A. Toscanini," and the Státny Komorný Orchester Zilina (Slovakia).
His critical editions (Suvini Zerboni, Carisch, Rugginenti, Vigormusic) and his discographic recordings (Dynamic/Naxos, Tactus, Brilliant) highlight his expertise both as a musician and as a scholar.
He is a professor at the Conservatory of Music "Giuseppe Nicolini" in Piacenza and has held masterclasses in Italy, Austria (International Music Academy Orpheus in Vienna), Brazil, Bulgaria, Spain, Poland, and the USA.
