claudio mansutti

Claudio Mansutti graduated in clarinet with full marks from the conservatoire “J. Tomadini” in Udine under Maestro A. Pecile, and later studied with Maestros P. Borali (RAI of Milan) and K. Leister (Berliner Philarmoniker).

He has won 5 chamber music competitions of national and international level, and recorded for RAI and ORF. He has founded the Diapason Ensemble and the Accademia Ars Musicae Orchestra of Klagenfurt, where he was first clarinet, and reached the national finals for the European Youth Orchestra.

He performed as a soloist with the Accademia Ars Musicae Orchestra, the Zagreb Radio and Television Orchestra, the Chamber Orchestra of Gorizia and the Diapason Chamber Orchestra. He has studied orchestra direction with Maestro L. Descev, formerly conductor of the Sofia Opera, and musical interpretation with Maestro R. Repini.He has conducted the Sofia Soloists and several orchestras in Friuli Venezia-Giulia (North-East Italy). He has performed in Italy, Austria, former Yugoslavia and Germany, collaborating with musicians of international calibre. He has conducted the Ljubliana Radio and Television Orchestra playing Mozart’s “Requiem” in Udine, Pordenone, Ljubliana and Domzale (Slovenia).

Mansutti is an experienced music events organiser and artistic director, having been involved in these activities for 11 years. Since 1991, he has been the artistic director of the Teatro “Luigi Bon” in Colugna (Udine). He was an organisation consultant for the Teatro “Giovanni da Udine” in Udine during its first three years of activity, a production director for the Orchestra Sinfonica of Friuli Venezia-Giulia and director of the Foundation Città di Gorizia, for which he also took care of the artistic direction in occasion of the re-opening of the Teatro Verdi of Gorizia. Since 2009 he has been Music Art Director of Mittelfest.

He collaborates on a regular basis with the Berliner String Quartet, the well-known singer Annamaria Dell’Oste and the Cremona Quartet. Again as a soloist, he recently played in Naples with the Ensemble Variabile, in Austria with the Vienna Mahler Orchestra and in Germany with the Budapest Chamber Orchestra. In 2001 he received the “Moret d’aur” prize for Culture Personality of the Year in Friuli Venezia-Giulia.