Fabio Di Casola

Born in Lugano, Fabio Di Càsola won first prize at the Geneva International Music Competition (CIEM) in 1990.He also won the "Prix Suisse" prize for contemporary music and the "Prix Patek Philippe".

Again for contemporary music, he also won first prize at the Stresa competition. In 1998 he was elected 'Swiss Musician of the Year' in parallel by a jury of experts and the public. From 1990 to 2010 he held the position of principal clarinet in the orchestra 'Musikkollegium Winterthur'.

He has been professor of clarinet and chamber music since 1991 at the Hochschule der Künste in Zurich where he teaches in English, French, German and Italian.

He founded the chamber music festival klang in 2006 and is its artistic director. Most of his CDs are published by Sony Classical. Fabio Di Càsola is a member and co-founder of the "Ensemble Kandinsky" and the wind quintet "Swiss.5"