Ensemble Flatus & Enrico Casularo
Biography Ensemble Flatus & Enrico Casularo
Ensemble Flatus
An ensemble of vocal and instrumental chamber music comprising internationally renowned musicians, Ensemble FLATUS, founded and directed by Enrico Casularo, can be heard at the FLATUS Festival, which holds concerts throughout the year both in Switzerland and abroad; concerts of mainly unpublished masterpieces of vocal and instrumental chamber music from the 18th and 19th centuries, using original instruments and performed according to the practices of the time.
Enrico Casularo
Flautist, musicologist and organologist, Enrico Casularo graduated brilliantly at the “S.Cecilia” Conservatory in Rome under the tutorship of Angelo Persichilli. He continued his music studies in Holland with Master Franz Vester.
He is founder and conductor of the Flatus Ensemble with which he has participated in numerous festivals and concert seasons in Italy and abroad.
On period flutes of his collection he makes a number of first modern performances of compositions for ute by authors (especially Italian) of the 18th and 19th centuries. He figures as a soloist for the RAI broadcasting company, the WRD Cologne, Radio Suisse Romande, Vatican Radio and appears on the labels EMI, Edipan, Bongiovanni, Modus Inveniendi, Pentaphon, Jecklin and Flatus recording. He has published previously unpublished works for flute for Flatus Editions. He is author of the book Research into the history and literature of the transverse ute in the 18th century in Italy and beyond, and has also published a string of articles on performance techniques, the history, the repertoire, the organology of the transverse ute in the 18th century in ute magazines in Italy and abroad.
He regularly holds seminars and interpretation courses at prestigious American and European conservatories. He teaches baroque ute since 2012 at the the “Santa Cecilia”Conservatory.
