Claudio Puntin

Puntin played in his youth with his brother and his father on the harmonica folk music to peasant feasts in Italian Friuli . With 9 years he began to play the clarinet. From 1981 to 1985 Puntin trained as a goldsmith at the School of Jewellery Design Lucerne and received in 1985 the Prix Golay Buchel jewelery and design . In addition, he was from 1984 to 1988 principal clarinetist of the Swiss Youth Symphony Orchestra. From 1987 to 1993 he studied in Cologne and Rotterdamclarinet, bass clarinet, jazz and contemporary music. He regularly attended lectures by Sergiu Celibidache part.

In duo with Steffen Schorn he toured worldwide. He founded various formations like Quipu that Claudio Puntin Trio (with Anders Jormin and Miroslav Tadić ), "Essence of North" with the Icelandic violinist Gerdur Gunnarsdóttir, "sepia sonic", the World Clarinet Quartet (withGabriele Mirabassi , Luca Raele and Paulo Sérgio Santos ), Sepia Sonic, the "Trio dolce Vita" and with Martina Taubenberger the festival soundtracks . He is currently working in the Dark Ambient Trio "ambiq" Together with the Berlin electronics pioneer Max Loderbauer and his longtime companion Samuel Rohrer.

Besides Puntin worked with the Orchestra of the Bavarian Radio, the Lucerne Jazz Orchestra , the WDR Radio Orchestra Cologne , the Ensemble Modern , the WDR Big Band and the NDR Bigband and with Skúli Sverrisson , Samuel Rohrer , Nils Wogram , Steffen Schorn, Hermeto Pascoal , Sidsel Endresen , Fred Frith , Ricardo Villalobos , Lucas Niggli , Wolfert Brederode , Bernhard Meyer uva

In 1998 he received a lectureship for jazz clarinet at the Music Academy in Cologne. Since 2009 he teaches jazz clarinet at the University of Arts Berlin .

As a composer and producer, he produced the music for radio plays, films, theater and exhibitions, including to: Measuring the World ( Daniel Kehlmann ), My Name is Red ( Orhan Pamuk ) Soundless Wind Chime ( Berlinale 2009). As a soloist, he can be heard in various films such as Beyond Silence , Over my dead body , dots and Anton (1999) . He set 10 Pictures of Anselm Kiefer for the Art and Exhibition Hall in Bonn. Meanwhile Puntin working increasingly together with musicians from the Berlin electronic scene and presented in his solo program Moment music with clarinets, sound modules and electronics. His main focus the pull in the music. Currently, he composes works for the Minnesota Orchestra and the Icelandic Symphony Orchestra and collaborates with the poet Rike Scheffler on an opera.