Claudio Mansutti graduated in clarinet with top marks at the Conservatorio ‘J. Tomadini’ in Udine under the guidance of M.A. Pecile and later specialised with maestros P. Borali (RAI Milano) and K. Leister (Berliner Philarmoniker). He has won 5 chamber music competitions of national and international level, and recorded for RAI and ORF. He was the founder of the Diapason Ensemble and the Orchestra Accademia Ars Musicae in Klagenfurt, where he was first clarinet.
Claudio Mansutti
He undertook his orchestral conducting studies with Maestro L. Descev, former conductor of the Sofia Opera, and as far as his interpretative studies are concerned, he perfected his skills with Maestro R. Repini.
He performed as a soloist with: Berliner Symphoniker (in Beliner Philarmonie), Accademia Ars Musicae Orchestra, Zagreb Radio and Television Orchestra, Orchestra UECO in Sala Verdi (Milan), Diapason Chamber Orchestra, Virtuosi di Praga, Salzburger Solisten, Vienna Mahler Orchestra, Dolomiti Sinfonia, Budapest Chamber Orchestra, Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra (Smatana Hall in Praga), Zlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Hradec Kralove Philharmonic Orchestra, Radom Chamber Orchestra, FVG Mitteleuropea Orchestra, Orchestra Regionale Siciliana. He has studied orchestra direction with Maestro L. Descev and musical interpretation with Maestro R. Repini. He has performed in Italy, Austria, former Yugoslavia, Germany, France, Norway, Belgium, Spain, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, China. He collaborates on a regular basis with the Berliner Philarmoniker String Quintet and with the Janacek Quartet. With the Ensemble Variabile he performed all over Europe and also in New York as a duo at Carnegie Hall.