Born in Desenzano del Garda, in Northen Italy, Alessandro Carbonare has been principal clarinettist with the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, in Rome, since 2004. For fifteen years he lived in Paris where he served as principal clarinet with Orchestre national de France. He has won international competitions around the world, for example in Geneva, in 1990, Prague, in 1991, Toulon, in 1991, the ARD, Munich, in 1991 and 1992, and Paris, in 1992. He has appeared as soloist with the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Orquesta Nacional de España, Oslo-Filharmonien, Südwestdeutsches Kammerorchester Pforzheim, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunk, WienSinfonietta, Orchestre national de France, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, and all major Italian orchestras. As principal clarinet he has played with the Berliner Philharmoniker, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and New York Philharmonic. Having received a personal invitation from Maestro Claudio Abbado, he now plays in the late conductor’s Lucerne Festival Orchestra with which he has made an award-winning live recording of Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto, KV 622. He is active not only in classical music but also in Jazz and Klezmer projects. As an active member of the State Foundation for the National System of Youth and Infant Orchestras of Venezuela (El Sistema), he teaches music for free to hundreds of poor young people in Caracas. He has performed all kinds of music with such friends and famous fellow musicians as Martha Argerich, Stefano Bollani, Paquito D’Rivera, Leonidas Kavakos, Lang Lang, Alexander Lonquich, Enrico Pieranunzi, Luis Sclavis, and Pinkas Zuckerman. Alessandro Carbonare is a professor at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, in Rome, and, during the summer, at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana, in Siena.