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Claudio Mandonico ( Nave, 1957 ) is an Italian composer , music pedagogue , conductor , saxophonist , pianist and cornetist.

Life course
Mandonico grew up musically with Giovanni Ligasacchi at the music school "Gioietta Paoli Padova" in Brescia, where he learned to play various musical instruments ( saxophone, flute , cornet , piano and double bass ). He was a member of the Associazione Filarmonica "Isidoro Capitanio" Banda cittadina di Brescia and is also their musical advisor in 2012. He graduated in composition at the Conservatorio "Luca Marenzio" in Brescia with Giancarlo Facchinetti in 1986.

He is conductor of various bandas in the province of Brescia, such as the Associazione Filarmonica "Conca d'Oro" Vallesabbia and the Corpo Bandistico Musicale "Ottorino Respighi" di Tavernole, and since 1985 he has been the conductor of the Tokkel Orchestra in Brescia (Orchestra di mandolini e chitarre Città). di Brescia), with which he participated in various national and international festivals, among others at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples , and participated in several courses in early music in Urbino , in The Hague and Geneva.

As a cornet he is part of the group "Paride e Bernado Dusi" in Brescia. As a saxophonist and pianist he plays in the "East Side Big Band". He is also involved in other important musical events such as the Venice Biennale, the "Settembre Musica" in Turin and the " Schwetzinger Musikfestspiele".

He is a teacher for HaFa management, analysis and instrumentation at various music schools and at regional and national federations for wind orchestras.

In addition to a number of adaptations of classical music for banda such as Quattro versioni originali della "Ritirata Notturna di Madrid" by Luigi Boccherini " by Luciano Berio [1] he wrote as a composer his own works for orchestra, wind band, choir orchestra and chamber music.