Domenico Calia - Giuseppe Testa: Clarinet Works (2019)

Domenico Calia (Clarinet): Domenico Calia is a polyhedral performer with a great repertoire ranging from classical music to modern and contemporary one, expert of the most innovative instrumental techniques. He was born in 1985 and as a child he studied clarinet. Under the guide of M° Vittorio Luna, he graduated at the Conservatory V. Bellini of Caltanissetta. When he was eighteen years old, he face the professional world by performing the Mozart’s Gran Partita with the Istituzione Sinfonica Abruzzese so gaining many prizes at the 3° Concorso Nazionale Città di Balestrate, 7° Concorso Nazionale Giovani Musicisti Città di Caccamo, 1° Rassegna Nazionale di Musica Città di Balestrate, 2° Concorso Nazionale di Musica (Premio Mauro Patti) Città di Gangi, 1° Premio al Concorso Musicale Internazionale Carlo Agresti – Grancia Certosina di Salerno. He specialized with Giuseppe Garbarino, Vincenzo Paci, Angel Jean Cino, Massimo Scorretti, Italo Capicchioni, Cristian Chiodi Latini, Antonino Lampasona and Crescenzo Langella. He took part, as firt clarinet, to the International Seminar of Orchestral Formation of the Estate Musicale Frentana, from 2002 to 2005. He has been invited in many conservatories and festivals as jury commissioner, soloist and teacher, giving many masterclasses of high specialization. He has performed together with artists such as Marco Pierobon, Milva, Andrea Noferini, Nina Beilina, Ettore Pellegrini and with conductors like Donato Renzetti, Vlad, Massimiliano Caldi, Daniel Agiman, Rafail Pylarinos, Angelo Sormani, and many others. He has collaborated with Istituzione Sinfonica Abruzzese, Teatro Massimo (Palermo), Orchestra Alessandro Manzoni (Milan), Multipromo Opera Festival (Florence). He has done many recordings among which his appreciated debut album “Works for Contemporary Clarinet” (Da Vinci Classics, 2017), where he shows his virtuosity and interpretative ability and that has received the total approval of the critics and the 5 stars by the magazine Musica (Roberto Zecchini) and by Musicvoice.it (Andrea Bedetti). His “Flowers of Contemporary Clarinet” (Da Vinci Classics, 2018) has highlighted some gems by some Italian living composers. He is the artistic director of Da Vinci Association and of Clarinettando Italia Festival.