KEVIN PEDRO SPAGNOLO
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”The performance reached such a high level of artistic expression that it left the impression of a program composition and revealed all the genius of Mozart’s unique inspiration. By the end of the first sentence, it was clear that the charismatic Kevin Spagnolo is not only the star of the evening, but also a musician whose career we will definitely want to continue to follow and take advantage of every valuable opportunity to listen to him live again”
Večer
“What Kevin Spagnolo gave us in the clarinet concerto, the suggestive playfulness, the imagination in just about every little detail is completely exceptional. I would also like to add that he showed us the enchanting duality of the work. On the one hand, the childlike simplicity, which also belongs to the instrument and perhaps also to Mozart's friend Stadler and the portrait-like that Mozart wrote for clarinet. On the other hand, the permeating purity that runs like a common thread throughout the concert.”
Bartók Radio
BIOGRAPHY
In 2018, at only 22 years old, Kevin wins the First Prize of Geneva International Music Competition, one of the most important and prestigious competitions in the world. He is the youngest clarinetist of all times to get this important award in the history of this competition. From this moment on he gets invited regularly for recitals, chamber music, and solo concerts in important Festivals and tours.
Kevin performed as soloist with Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra playing A. Copland Concerto with conductor Anton Shaburov, in the festival organized by Musical Olympus, Sofia Philarmonic Orchestra, Orquesta de Aguascalientes with Roman Revueltas, Bruxelles Philarmonic with Antonio Saiote, Orchestre de Chambre de Genève with Pierre Bleuse and once with Yann Kerninon Orchestre des Nations with Vitor Fernandes and Antoine Marguier, Swedish Chamber Orchestra with Martin Fröst and once with Micheal Collins, Orchestra Regionale Toscana, in a tour with Nil Venditti, with Orchestre de Chambre de l’HEM, with Orchestra Sinfonica di Sanremo and Cemi’i Can Deliorman, Orchestra Sinfonica di Torino with Giampaolo Pretto, a tour with Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana and Alessandro Bonato and a tour Orchestra Filarmonica Marchigiana and Diego Ceretta. He will make his debut playing Mozart Clarinet Concerto with Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and Marc Leroy-Catalayud during summer 2024.
In 2022 Kevin substituted Martin Fröst in a tour, playing Mozart Clarinet Concerto with Swedish Chamber Orchestra, in Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest, transmitted live on Bartok Radio, and in Union Hall in Maribor, for the Slovenian Radio. The same year he was invited as a guest star in the Italian Tv Program “Via dei Matti n.0” in RAI 3, hosted and accompanied by Stefano Bollani and Valentina Cenni, playing some works of his CD.
In 2021 Kevin released his first CD “Façades” with Swedish Chamber Orchestra and Micheal Collins playing C.M. von Weber’s “Concerto n.1 op.73” and “Andante e rondo Ongarese”, Jean Francaix’s “Clarinet Concerto”, Rossini’s “Theme and Variations”, and “Sholem Alekhem Rov Feidman” by Béla Kovacs. The Cd was offered and sustained by Geneva International Competition and Breguet, and the main theme is the joy of living and the facades of life, the different shades of emotions that are expressed in Music, by the different composers. Kevin tried to identify himself as the composers and searched for the deepest meaning of life and of music itself, through this repertoire, that signed him from the right beginning of his musical activities.
He played in Chamber music groups with Beatrice Rana, Emmanuel Pahud, Stefano Bollani, Liya Petrova, Carlos Sanchis, Chloe Ji-yeong Mun, Thèo Fouchenneret, Aurelièn Pascal Lorenzo Soulés, Simone Rugani, the string-quartets Quartet Voce, Szimanovsky Quartet, Quartetto Guadagnini, Quartetto Prometeo, Quartet Terpsychordes, and with artists as Lise Berthaud, Sergey Ostrovsky, Ophelie Gaillard, Yubeen Kim, Sara Vidouvier, and in duo with Vitor Fernandes accompanied by Serika Saito.
He performed in Berliner Philharmonie, Rheingau Musik Festival, Mariinsky Theater, Solti Hall in Budapest, Teatro Verdi Firenze, Montpellier Festival (Festival Radio France), Classiche Forme Festival, Festival de les Haudères, Festival de Jeunes Talents in Paris, Rencontres Musicales de Champery, Concerts d’été à Saint Germain in Geneva, Blaibach Konzert Saison, France Musique Auditorium in Paris, Filarmonica di Rovereto, among others, and some of his concerts were recorded for Radio France, Bayerischer Rundfunk, Rai Radio 3, Radio Suisse Romande.
He has regular chamber music concerts in duo with the pianist Simone Rugani, and they had concerts in many Festivals and concert Halls in Italy, as Perugia Classica, Lucca Classica, Amici della Musica in Florence, Arezzo Classica, Bologna Festival.
Kevin started to play the clarinet, at the age of eight and joining the conservatory ”Istituto Superiore di Studi Musicali Luigi Boccherini” in Lucca, and he completed the Bachelor’s Degree, with the age of 17, with the best marks and honours under the teaching of prof. Remo Pieri. During his studies, he won several local, national and semi-international Competitions, with which he had the possibility to perform and have first recitals. After his Bachelor, he studied with Carlo Failli and Fabrizio Meloni and intensified his learning and entered the prestigious Conservatory in Geneva. After his first Master's Degree at HEM in Geneva (Haute Ecole de Musique de Genève), completed in 2017 with a special prize, he graduated for his second Master's Degree Soliste with Romain Guyot in 2019. Besides the Geneva International Competition Geneva, Kevin won Third Prize in Jacques Lancelot International Clarinet Competition in 2016 and in Ghent International Clarinet Competition in 2017, First Grand Prize in the Berliner International Music Competition.
From 2021 Kevin gives lessons and masterclasses in all Europe, and teaches regularly in Rome at the International Music School Avos Project, in the heart of the city, Piazza del Popolo.