Italian clarinet player ,Fausto Corneo is a graduate of the “Istituto Musicale A. Peri” in Italy .He holds Masters in both clarinet and bass clarinet from the Rotterdam Conservatorium, His principal professors include G. Iuliano ( Italy ), W. Boeykens,J.Jansen and H. Bok ( Holland ) with whom he worked as assistant.During this time he attended courses given by G.Garbarino (Italy),G.Deplus (Spain) and H.Klug (Holland).As an orchestral player,Mr.Corneo has performed with Orchestra Giovanile Italiana,Rotterdam Young Philarmonic,Orchestra Sinfonica di Savona,Filarmónica das Beiras,Orquestra Clássica da Madeira,Orquestra do Algarve and Orquestra Gulbenkian with conductors Riccardo Muti, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Emmanuel Krivine, Arie van Beek, Jurien Hempel,Lawrence Foster ,Cesário Costa, António Saiote,Laurent Wagner,Patrick Lange among others.He has performed chamber music in many stages including, Concertgebouw in Amesterdam, De Doelen in Rotterdam, Ridotto alla Scala in Milano,etc.Fausto Corneo is the recipient of many prizes, including first prize in the competition “Cittá di Gessate” in Italy (1996),“Prieuré les Mesnil Saint Martin” from the IV International Competition of Cartagena in Spain (2000),"De Link Music Prijs" in Holland (2002). Since 2003,he has enjoyed a collaboration with Ensemble Darcos performing concerts in Lisbon,Torres Vedras in Portugal and Berlin.Composers who have dedicated compositions to him include Nuno Côrte-Real, Gonçalo Lourenço, Buckhardt Soll, Marcella Pavia, and Burton Cummings.In 2005, Fausto Corneo was invited to participate as the only Italian representative at the first Cultural Interchange Asia - Europe in the Phillipines. His considerable improvisational skills have resulted in performances across Portugal with noted jazz musicians Carlos Barretto,Mário Delgado,Jose´ Salgueiro,Pedro Madaleno,Yuri Daniel,Bruno Pedroso,etc.He has recorded with Dulce Pontes, Gaiteiros de Lisboa (as a special guest) and Omaira. World Music projects are another facet of Fausto Corneo musical life.As a member of the luso-italiano-brasilian quintet Barbacute, he performs diverse programs that encompass many genres:ragtime,chorinho,klezmer etc.Most notably,Barbacute performed in the Centro Cultural de Belém (Lisbon) in a concert broadcast on RTP.He also performs Mediterranean music with the algarvian group Al-Driça.From 2003 until 2007 he was professor of clarinet and chamber music at the Conservatório de Música de Caldas da Rainha (Portugal) .In May 2005 he conducted a master class in clarinet and bass clarinet at the Conservatorio Profesional de Musica de Salamanca (Spain) by invitation of the institution.Since 2007 he teaches at the Conservatório Regional do Algarve (Portugal).As a soloist,he performed in Lisbon at Culturgest with OrchestrUtopica (2004) and at the Portuguese Parlament with the Orquestra do Algarve (2007).Fausto Corneo is currently principal clarinet with the Orquestra do Algarve in Faro,Portugal