Mario Caroli studied flute with Annamaria Morini. He has also been deeply influenced by Manuela Wiesler. At the age of 22 he won the coveted Kranichsteiner Musikpreis in Darmstadt and has since enjoyed a highly successful career as a solo flautist. He gives concerts in all the major musical centers, including Berlin, Cologne, Vienna (Konzerthaus), London (Royal Festival Hall), Paris (ThéČtre du ChČtelet), New York (Lincoln Center), Tokyo (Opera City House), Rome (Parco della Musica), and Brussels (Palais des Beaux Arts). He has appeared as a soloist with the Italian Radio Symphony orchestra, the Orchestra of the wdr in Cologne, the Philharmonia Orchestra, Les Percussions de Strasbourg, the Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart, and the Schola Heidelberg, under the baton of Pierre Boulez, Peter Eötvös, Heinz Holliger, Kazushi Ono, Oswald Sallaberger, Ilan Volkov and Hiroshi Wakasugi.
Mario Caroli is renowned for his flexibility and skills in performing both the standard repertoire and modern music. Many celebrated composers have dedicated their pieces to him including J. Dillon,
I. Fedele, B. Ferneyhough,
M. Gervasoni, T. Hosokawa,
G. Kurtág, B. Jolas, B. Mantovani, K. Saariaho, S. Sciarrino, M. Stroppa, and J. Yuasa. Sciarrino has called him the ‘Paganini of the flute’; Kurtág and Yuasa praised him with equal admiration.
A prominent place in his discography is occupied by ‘composers’ portraits’, which are regularly broadcast by European radio stations.
Mario Caroli is also a distin-guished teacher. He is currently
a professor in the ‘cycles de perfectionnement’ of the Conservatoire National in Strasbourg, where he lives. He also gives master classes throughout the world.
At the age of 23, he graduated in philosophy, summa cum laude, with a thesis on Nietzsche’s Der Antichrist.