Mario Caroli is Professor for flute at the Musikhochschule in Freiburg im Breisgau after teaching more than twenty years at the Académie Supérieure de Musique de Strasbourg and five years at the University of Music in Lugano. Beginning his musical training at the age of 14 and getting his soloist diploma at the age of 19, he quickly became the preferred interpreter of the many of the biggest living composers e. g. Salvatore Sciarrino, György Kurtag, Doina Rotaru, Toshio Hosokawa. Appeared as an invited soloist with many prestigious orchestras, such as Philharmonia Orchestra in London, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France in Paris, Tokyo Philharmonic in Tokyo, SWR and WDR Radiosinfonieorchester of Stuttgart and Cologne and performed at the biggest festivals as well as at the Royal Festival Hall in London, at the Suntory Hall in Tokyo, at the Linclon Center in New York, the Scala in Milano, the Palais des Beaux Arts in Brussels, the Megaron in Athens, the Herkulessaal in Münich, at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, at the Cité de la Musique in Strasbourg. More than 60 CD recordings including many important world premieres as well as the big classics of the repertoire. Mario Caroli plays a platinum Miyazawa flute.