Nicola Bulfone is an Italian clarinetist.

Bulfone was born in 1963 in Hässleholm

Hässleholm

Hässleholm is a locality and the seat of Hässleholm Municipality, Skåne County, Sweden with 17,730 inhabitants in 2005.-Overview:Hässleholm was gradually developed from 1860 in connection with the construction of the main Stockholm to Malmö railway line. There was no settlement on the spot before...

, Sweden

Sweden

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, and studied clarinet

Clarinet

The clarinet is a musical instrument of woodwind type. The name derives from adding the suffix -et to the Italian word clarino , as the first clarinets had a strident tone similar to that of a trumpet. The instrument has an approximately cylindrical bore, and uses a single reed...

 at the Udine Conservatory. From 1985 to 1988 he studied at the Hochschule für Musik in Stuttgart

Stuttgart

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 under Ulf Rodenhäuser, winning an Advanced Diploma in clarinet. He won first prize in the 1983 International Music Competition in Stresa

Stresa

Stresa is a town and comune of about 5,000 inhabitants on the shores of the Lago Maggiore in the region of Piedmont, northern Italy; it is situated on the road and rail routes to the Simplon pass, about 90 km north-west of Milan. Since the early 20th century, the main source of income has been the...

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Bulfone has played clarinet, basset horn and bass clarinet

Bass clarinet

The bass clarinet is a musical instrument of the clarinet family. Like the more common soprano B clarinet, it is usually pitched in B , but it plays notes an octave below the soprano B clarinet...

 in the Teatro alla Scala Orchestra, the Teatro G. Verdi Orchestra, Trieste, the San Remo Symphony Orchestra, Filarmonica della Scala, Teatro La Fenice in Venice

Venice

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, and Teatro San Carlo in Naples

Naples

Naples is a city in Southern Italy, situated on the country's west coast by the Gulf of Naples. Lying between two notable volcanic regions, Mount Vesuvius and the Phlegraean Fields, it is the capital of the region of Campania and of the province of Naples...

. He played as soloist with the Slovac Philharmonic Orchestra of Bratislava

Bratislava

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, the Rossini Festival Orchestra, the Udine

Udine

Udine is a city and comune in northeastern Italy, in the middle of Friuli-Venezia Giulia region, between the Adriatic sea and the Alps , less than 40 km from the Slovenian border. Its population was 99,439 in 2009, and that of its urban area was 175,000.- History :Udine is the historical...

 Chamber Orchestra, the Orchestra Sinfonica del Estado del Mexico

Mexico

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, the Udine Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orquesta do Norte, and several chamber orchestras. From 1994 until 2006, he taught clarinet at Gallarate

Gallarate

Gallarate is a city and comune of Lombardy, northern Italy, in the Province of Varese. It has a population of some 51,700....

 Conservatory.

Bulfone has recorded three CDs for Agorà and created the first ever recording of the concertos for clarinet and orchestra by Carlo Paessler. He plays on a Wurlitzer

Wurlitzer

The Rudolph Wurlitzer Company, usually referred to simply as Wurlitzer, was an American company that produced stringed instruments, woodwinds, brass instruments, theatre organs, band organs, orchestrions, electronic organs, electric pianos and jukeboxes....

 Reform-Boehm

Boehm

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 clarinet.

Discography

• Franz Vincenz Krommer/Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Concertos For 2 Clarinets, with Daniel Pacitti and the Udine Chamber Orchestra. Agorà, 1996.
• Carlo Paessler: Works for Clarinet and Orchestra, with the Collegium Musicum
  Collegium Musicum
  The Collegium Musicum was one of several types of musical societies that arose in German and German-Swiss cities and towns during the Reformation and thrived into the mid-18th century...
  
  . Agorà, 2001.