Enrico Maria BARONI

Enrico Maria Baroni is Principal Clarinet of the RAI – Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale. After his studies at “G.Verdi” Conservatory of Music in Milan where he obtained his master’s degree with top marks, he soon began to pursue his career in International Orchestras as the Orchestre des Jeunes de la Méditerranée, the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festivalorchester, the Philharmonie der Nationen. In 1995 he achieved the position for Deuxiéme Soliste at the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, joining the RAI OSN in 2000, after winning the audition for Principal Clarinet. Together with his activity at RAI, he is actively taking part to several Festivals as a solo and a chamber music player, such as Torino Settembre Musica, Unione Musicale, Mito, Sagra Musicale Malatestiana, Festival dei Due Mondi di Spoleto, Asolo Musica, Festival di Ravello, I Concerti del Quirinale, GOG di Genova, Società Barattelli de L’Aquila, Associazione Chamber Music di Trieste, Filarmonica Laudamo di Messina, Settimane Musicali di Stresa, Festival Città di Cernobbio, Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, Festival Internacional de Murcia, Festival Tibor Varga, Ars Musica di Bruxelles, Festival Musical des Raspes, Latina 2000 (Musica Italiana in Sud America CIDIM), Festival de Las Almas, Festus Novus, Festival Cervantino. As a soloist, he has worked with many renowned conductors: he performed the Debussy’s Première Rhapsodie and Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante K297b under the guide of Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos (RAI), Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante K297b with Juraj Valcuha (RAI), Brahms/Berio’s opus 120 with Roberto Abbado (RAI), Bernstein’s Prelude Fugue and Riffs and Copland’s Clarinet Concerto With William Eddins (RAI), Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto K622 with Jesus Lopez-Cobos (Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne) and Gianandrea Noseda (Stresa Festival Orchestra). He has recorded several albums with Deutsche Grammophon, Rivoalto, Due Punte Classica and Videoradio labels. Also active in the educational field, he teaches at the Academy “Perosi” in Biella and holds master classes in the main Italian and foreign institutions.