Claudia Fiore has graduated in cello with full honours at the “E. R. Duni” Conservatory in Matera, Italy, with Mº Demetrio Lepore. Later she attended the three – year course of High Specialization at the “L. Perosi” Academy in Biella and the summer course at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg with M° Umberto Clerici. She also participated as an active student in the Master Class of the cellists: Enrico Dindo, Massimo Polidori, Giovanni Gnocchi, Enrico Bronzi, Andrea Noferini.

 

In 2007, she attended the High Formation Music Course “Progetto Palcoscenico” in Pescara obtaining a Professional Qualification of “Orchestral Professor” and in 2008 won the auditions at the Italian Youth Orchestra in Fiesole, the Academy of Teatro alla Scala in Milan and in 2010 at Claudio Abbado’s Orchestra Mozart Academy in Bologna.

 

Then collaborated with: Orchestra Mozart, Teatro alla Scala Orchestra Academy, Orchestra Sinfonica Abruzzese, Orchestra Regionale Toscana, Orchestra Filarmonica Marchigiana, Orchestra Cherubini, Nuova Orchestra Scarlatti di Napoli, Orchestra Sinfonica Tito Schipa di Lecce, Orchestra della Magna Grecia, Orchestra Filarmonica di Torino, Orchestra del Teatro Petruzzelli, playing in the most important theaters in the world like Carnegie Hall in New York, Teatro alla Scala in Milan, KKL in Luzern with soloist as: Lang Lang, Herbie Hancock, Sergey Krylov, Sharon Isbin, Giovanni Sollima, Gil Shaham, Alexander Lonquich, Viktoria Mullova, Isabelle Faust, Massimo Quarta ecc.. and important conductors as: Claudio Abbado, Gianandrea Noseda, John Axelrod, Asher Fish, Gabriele Ferro, Donato Renzetti, Daniele Rustioni, Johnathan Webb, Lior Shambadal, David Garforth, Boris Gruzin and others.

 

She also had the opportunity to play with the two Oscar winners Luis Bacalov and Nicola Piovani.

 

About Chamber Music she played several times in different formations in Italy and abroad collaborating with important musicians like Alessandro Carbonare, Paul Gulda, Dominika Falger. Plays also stably with her sister Camilla (Duo Fiore) and Trio di Lecce. In 2007 won the first prize at the International Competition “Valeria Martina” in Massafra.

 

In addition to classical music Claudia likes to play all kind of music, recording and collaborating with many singers, composers and musicians.

 

As composer, she worked with the director Vito Pascariello and the “Teatro in Libertà” Theater Company, composing the stage music of “Tartufo” and “Il malato immaginario” of J. Moliere.

 

In 2019 Claudia attended the Master of Music in “Composition in music for film, advertisings, documentaries, short movies, cartoons and video games” at E-campus University in Lecce, Italy with M° Francesco De Donatis, and she graduated with full honours.

 

Now she works as composer and plays with the Teatro Petruzzelli Orchestra in Bari, Italy.

 

Claudia plays a cello “Jago Peternella”, made in Venice in 1920.