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RIMINI, Italy
Italian horn soloist Alberto Cappiello has marked a milestone year, wrapping a three-continent concert tour and expanding his discography, as the artistic director of the Rimini Chamber Orchestra continues to raise the international profile of the horn concerto.
A Global Journey
In 2026, Alberto Cappiello undertook a three-month international tour spanning Asia, Europe, and the Americas, running from late February through the end of May. The itinerary included performances of Christoph Forster’s Horn Concerto with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Carl Maria von Weber’s Concertino for Horn with the Metropolitan Philharmonic Orchestra of Mexico City, and Richard Strauss’s Horn Concerto No. 1 with the National Symphony Orchestra of Korea. The tour was covered extensively by Italian regional press both as it began and on his return home.
It capped several years of intensive international touring. In 2024 he travelled through Central America and the Caribbean, performing with the Cuban National Symphony Orchestra, the Orquesta Filarmónica de San Vicente, and the Domenico Scarlatti Orchestra, and in 2025 he performed Strauss’s Horn Concerto No. 2 in Mexico City and Glière’s Horn Concerto with orchestras in Korea and Brazil.
The Recordings
Cappiello’s recordings are available on Spotify, Deezer, Apple Music, YouTube, and YouTube Music. They include his debut album The Weber Concertos, dedicated to Weber’s Concertino for Horn, together with the Richard Strauss Horn Concertos, the Bach Suites, and the Forster Horn Concerto. An earlier studio recording of Strauss’s Horn Concerto No. 2 was made at the Farm House Studio in the Republic of San Marino, and recordings of his live performances have also been published on YouTube.
The Road Here
Born in Cles, in northern Italy’s Trentino province, on 25 June 1969, Cappiello began playing the horn at ten, studying in Rimini and at the Conservatorio “G. Rossini” in Pesaro, where he graduated with top marks in 1988. He then studied in Budapest on a scholarship and at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber in Dresden, earning the special soloist diploma in 1996. A Special Prize at the 1993 Philip Farkas International Horn Competition in Budapest was among his early distinctions.
He spent his formative professional years with leading Italian ensembles — Teatro alla Scala, the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples, and the RAI National Symphony Orchestra — and played in the Sanremo Festival orchestra in 2010 and 2013. In 2014 he turned to a full-time solo career.
A Soloist Without Borders
Since then, Cappiello has performed as a concerto soloist across Europe, Asia, and the Americas, appearing with the Korea Symphony Orchestra, the West Virginia Symphony Orchestra, the Cuban National Symphony Orchestra, the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Táchira in Venezuela, the National Chamber Orchestra of Armenia, and the National Symphony Orchestra of El Salvador, among many others. His appearances in South Korea have been reported by Italian press to have been received “as a star.”
A Recognisable Sound
Italian critics have praised Cappiello’s “sound power and innovative style,” a blend of the Central European brass school he absorbed in Budapest and Dresden and the Italian operatic tradition of his Pesaro training. In 2018 he had performed with the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Táchira, the Moscow Chamber Orchestra, and the New Caribbean Philharmonic, and he later performed with the Saint Petersburg Youth Symphony Orchestra. Alongside his concerto work he appears in recital, including horn-and-piano duo programmes with the pianist Ulysse Bonaventura.
Home Base in Rimini
Since 2017 he has served as principal horn soloist and artistic director of the Rimini Chamber Orchestra, with which he premiered Reinhold Glière’s Horn Concerto in a chamber arrangement for horn and strings. He also holds principal-horn roles with the Dolomiti Symphony Orchestra in Italy and the Adıyaman Philharmonic Orchestra in Turkey. Cappiello lives in Rimini, Italy; more information is available at albertocappiello.it.