Mº Prof. Paolo Beltramini
Paolo Beltramini, first Clarinet Soloist of the Orchestra of Italian Switzerland, He has won over 20 national and international competitions including the 1st overall prize at the prestigious International Clarinet Competition “Primavera di Praga 1996”, the 2nd prize at the International Competition for the Chamber Music in Paris 1996 and the 1st overall prize at the Chamber Music Competition in Trapani 1997, for which He also received the “Premio della Stampa”. These statements brought Paolo Beltramini to the attention of the public and critics as one of today’s most interesting wind instrument virtuosos on the international musical scene.
He having graduated brilliantly at the age of 18 from the “G. Verdi” conservatory in Milan, He later specialized at the Scuola di Alto Perfectionazione in Saluzzo with T. Friedli and W. Boeykens and at the Accademia Chigiana in Siena with G. Garbarino where, in 1987, He obtained an Honorary Diploma and a Siae scholarship.
A refined interpreter of the entire clarinet repertoire, he has been a guest of prestigious concert institutions and has performed in the most important concert halls throughout Europe, Asia, Africa, the United States and South America.
He has also collaborated with M.Argerich, A.Lonquich, S.Gabetta, A.Meneses,
A. Lucchesini, G.Carmignola, E.Dindo M.Bourge, the Fiesole quartets, Stamic, Prometeo. As First Clarinet he has played with the following orchestras: Royal Concertgebouw of Amsterdam, Filarmonica della Scala, Orchestra Nazionale della Rai of Turin, Santa Cecilia of Rome, Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra of Mantua, Orchestra da Camera Italiana.
He is regularly invited to juries of national and international competitions and has taught Master Classes in Italy, Switzerland, the USA, Japan, France, Slovenia, China and Portugal and the Czech Republic.
Paolo Beltramini is a “RIPA” Artist, Silverstein and Legere Reeds.
He holds the professorship at the Luzern Hochschule of Musik.