Clara Riccucci

Bio

Clara Riccucci is an Italian clarinetist active on the European music scene. As a chamber musician, she has performed at prestigious festivals and concert halls such as the Lucerne Festival, Pharos Chamber Music Festival, Hirzenberg Festival, Filarmonica Romana, ialle Sale Apollinee of Teatro la Fenice, and the Museo del Teatro alla Scala. He has collaborated with prominent artists including Daishin Kashimoto, Diemut Poppen, Enrico Pace, Alexander Chaushian, Alexander Kobrin, Celine Moinet, Boris Brovtsyn, and Gregory Ahss.
As a soloist, he performed Carl Nielsen’s Clarinet Concerto with the Luzerner Sinfonieorchester under the baton of Michael Sanderling. Parallel to his solo and chamber music career, he has played as first clarinet in major orchestras such as the Orchestra of the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome, the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, the Turku Philharmonic Orchestra, the Teatro La Fenice in Venice, and the Orchestra della Toscana. She has collaborated with renowned conductors including Zubin Mehta, Daniele Gatti, Andrés Orozco-Estrada, Markus Stenz and Myung-Whun Chung.
Winner of several international competitions, including Notes of Talent, the “Dienemann” International Clarinet Competition and the Edwin Fischer Competition, Riccucci began her studies in Fiesole with her father, Giovanni Riccucci. He then continued his training in Rome with Calogero Palermo and at the Hochschule Luzern with Paolo Beltramini and Robert Pickup. He also participated in master classes with eminent clarinetists such as Yehuda Gilad, Sabine Meyer, Alessandro Carbonare and Reiner Wehle.