Stefano Cardo

I was born in Padova in 1976.
I took my degree “cum Laude” at “Benedetto Marcello” music academy of Venice in 1996.
In 2000 I joined the European Union Youth Orchestra EUYO for the “Millennium Gala Tour” playing in the most important european concert halls (Royal Albert Hall, Berlin Philharmonie).
I have been a member of the ensemble “Laboratorio Novamusica”. Whit this contemporary music ensemble I played with many great soloists like Bruno Canino, Pascal Gallois, Cristina Zavalloni e Alda Caiello.
In 2005 I played the W.A. Mozart’ Clarinet concerto K622 under the conduction of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies.
In 2005 I won the audition for Principal Bass Clarinet of the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale OSN RAI Italian Radio-Television. In 2007 I wan the audition for the same role in the Orchestra of the Teatro alla Scala and Filarmonica della Scala
In 2010 I founded the C.I.R.C.B. - International Bass Clarinet Research Center. (www.circb.info)
In 2015 I founded the bassclarinetwork.com community website.
In 2016 I founded the International Bass Clarinet Association.
In 2017 with a group of colleagues he developed the project on bass clarinet classic repertoire "Toward the Empyrean Heaven" (https://www.circb.info/ibca/educational/toward_the_empyrean_heaven.html).

He is a Buffet-Crampon and Silverstein Works artist and plays Vandoren mouthpiece and reeds.