Maura Marinucci

After receiving her Bachelor’s degree in Italy at the age of 17, she studied with Alessandro Carbonare at the Accademia Santa Cecilia in Rome and received her Master’s degree in Music Performance in the class of François Benda at Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana in Lugano in 2016.

Maura has always wanted to become an orchestral musician. She has played with many youth orchestras such as the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra (doing both the Easter and Summer tour in 2017 as Principal Clarinet), the Swiss Youth Symphony Orchestra in 2015 and 2016 as Bass and E-flat clarinet, and the Animato Orchestra in the 2016 European tour.

She is regularly invited as Guest Principal Clarinet with many orchestras, such as the London Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Ulster Orchestra, Welsh National Opera, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Orchestre Symphonique de la Monnaie (Brussels), Orchestra del Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Orchestra del Teatro di San Carlo (Naples) among others.

She plays chamber music with many different ensembles, travelling across Europe, the States and Australia with both classical and contemporary repertoire. She performed as soloist with the Transilvania State Orchestra, the Orchestra Sinfonica Abruzzese and the Orchestra of the De Sono Foundation.

She also loves teaching; she was clarinet teacher at the conservatoires of Novara and Pescara. She has been invited to teach masterclasses in Italy, at the Royal Conservatoire of Brussels, at the Royal Welsh College of Music, at the Michigan State University, the Royal Academy of Music and at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. During her time in Belgium, she was the woodwind coach of the Brussels Young Philharmonic Orchestra.