Univ.-Prof.
Paolo Taballione
Paolo Taballione was appointed Professor of Flute at the Mozarteum University in 2018. Recitals, concerts and masterclasses have taken him to the MusicaRivaFestival, Flautissimo Flute Festival, Oleg Kagan Music Festival, RavennaFestival, Dubrovnik Festival, Falaut Campus, Senzoku Gakuen University of Tokyo, Flute Week Korea Festival and Universitá Internazionale dell'Andalucia. He has made solo recordings for major public broadcasters in Germany and Italy, including Bayerischer Rundfunk and RAI Filodiffusione.
Paolo Taballione (b. 1981 in Rome) studied with J. Zoon at the "Conservatoire Supérieur de Musique de Genève", where he received the Diplôme de Soliste "avec Distinction" by unanimous decision in 2007. He is also an accomplished pianist and composer; he studied with Francesco Carotenuto at the Conservatorio di Santa Cecilia in Rome, completing his studies in 2008.
A versatile performer whose repertoire spans everything from baroque to contemporary music, he has won prizes at numerous national and international solo competitions, including first prize at the International Competition for Music of the Twentieth and Twenty-first Century for Flute and Piccolo “V. Bucchi” in 2004. At the International Solo Competition “D. Cimarosa” in 2005, the jury chaired by M. Larrieu unanimously awarded him first prize.
In 2004 he was appointed by Riccardo Muti as principal flautist of the Orchestra Giovanile Luigi Cherubina, and in 2005 began his solo career to great acclaim, hailed by Il Giornale as "Paolo Taballione, an admirable flutist!" From there, his intensive work as a soloist, chamber and orchestral musician has taken him to the most important European concert halls such as the Wiener Musikverein, the Gasteig in Munich, the Festspielhaus in Salzburg, the Berlin Philharmonic, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, and the Parco della musica in Rome, the Beethoven Hall in Stuttgart, the concert hall of the KKL Lucerne and the Teatro San Carlo in Naples. He has performed as a soloist with ensembles such as the Bavarian State Orchestra, the Bach Collegium Munich, the Orchestra Reinó de Aragon, the chamber musicians of S. Cecilia and the Georgian Sinfonietta.
From 2006 to 2008 he was principal flautist of the Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino under the direction of Zubin Mehta and in 2008 he was appointed principal flautist of the Bavarian State Opera in Munich. He is regularly invited by orchestras such as the Philharmonic Orchestra of the Milan Scala, the Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, the Munich Philharmonic, the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, the NDR Symphony Orchestra Hamburg, the Orchestra of the Zurich Opera House, the Dresden Philharmonic to perform with conductors such as Lorin Maazel, Zubin Mehta, Riccardo Muti, Kent Nagano, Seiji Ozawa, Yury Temirkanov, Daniel Harding, Kirill Petrenko, and regularly collaborates with the most important soloists on the international music scene.