Claudio Scimone is an Italian conductor.

He was born in Padua

Padua

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, Italy

Italy

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 and studied conducting with Dmitri Mitropoulos and Franco Ferrara

Franco Ferrara

Franco Ferrara was an Italian conductor.After obtaining diplomas in piano, violin, organ and musical composition at the Conservatory of Bologna, Ferrara began his career as violin player in Bologna, in Rome and in Florence, with the Orchestra of Maggio Musicale Fiorentino...

. He has established an international reputation as a conductor, as well as a composer. He has revived many baroque and renaissance works. His discography includes over 150 titles, and he has won numerous prizes, including the Grand Prix du Disque

L'Académie Charles Cros

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 of the Charles Cros Academy.

He is the founder of I Solisti Veneti

I Solisti Veneti

I Solisti Veneti is one of the first rank of small Italian chamber orchestras with modern instruments. Founded in Padua in 1959 by Claudio Scimone, it has made a reputation especially with Italian Baroque music, recording many works by Antonio Vivaldi, Tomaso Albinoni, Francesco Geminiani,...

 (the ensemble with which most of his recordings have been made) and is the honorary conductor of the Gulbenkian Orchestra

Gulbenkian Orchestra

The Gulbenkian Orchestra is a Portuguese symphony orchestra based in Lisbon. The orchestra primarily gives concerts at the Grande Auditório of the Gulbenkian Foundation....

 in Lisbon

Lisbon

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, Portugal

Portugal

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