GABRIELE CASSONE

The 45th Annual International Trumpet Guild Conference

6.01.21 – 6.05.21

Gabriele Cassone

Session: Expanding our performance trough body work and meditation

Gabriele Cassone received his conservatory diploma studying trumpet performance with Mario Catena and composition with Luciano Chailly. He is not only world-renowned as a performer on period instruments (Baroque natural trumpet, Classical keyed trumpet, rotary valve trumpet and cornet à pistons), but also as a contemporary musician.

Luciano Berio selected Cassone to record his Sequenza X for solo trumpet, and to premiere his Kol-Od with the Ensemble Intercontemporain under the direction of Pierre Boulez. He has also shared the stage with celebrated trombonist Christian Lindberg in Berio’s opera Cronaca del Luogo, commissioned by the Salzburg Festival. Sir John Eliot Gardiner appointed Cassone principal trumpet in the English Baroque Soloists for the entire cycle of J. S. Bach’s Cantatas and the Second Brandenburg Concerto, and Ton Koopman, director of the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, requested him as trumpet soloist for the ensemble’s recording of Bach’s Cantata 51.

He has given solo concerts in major international venues, including the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Cité de la Musique in Paris, La Scala in Milan, the Mozarteum in Salzburg, New York’s Carnegie Hall, the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London, and the Vienna Konzerthaus. He is featured on more than twenty recordings in repertoire from the Baroque through the contemporary era.

Interested for many years in the mind-body relationship and its influence on musical practice, Cassone began the study of bioenergetics in 1990, and subsequently attended meditation trainings involving body work  in Italy and India. He was certified as a Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner in 2017.

Cassone serves on the faculties of the Conservatory of Novara in Italy, and the Chosen Vale International Trumpet Seminar.

He is author of The Trumpet Book (Zecchini Editore).

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