Paolo Gavelli is a Italian ocarina player, known to perform using all sorts of rare woodwind instruments. Among the instruments he plays are the Slovak fujara, duduk, oktavin, tàrogatò, ethnic flutes, schwegel, fozhobel and bansuri. He is also a clarinettist and a teacher in the Italian music school and in the academy.
He is manager of the northern Italian Ocarina Center and manages the Italian ocarina septet "Ocarina Ferdinand," playing the piccolo ocarina in C, the soprano ocarina in G and the double ocarina. He is also manager of the ocarina-trio Klezmer
He has played in the orchestras of Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Teatro Stabile and Teatro Comunale in Genoa as well as in the Filarmonica Italiana, with which he toured in France, Russia and Mexico. He has also participated in international festivals in Avignon, Guanajuato and Venice. As an ocarina player he has played in important international festivals in Budrio, Tunzenberg and Braz. He has also recorded a CD of Klezmer music with the Kli Zemer Trio for Ocarina Workshop.
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