Fabrizio Meloni has held the prestigious position of first solo clarinet chair of the Orchestra and the Filarmonica of the Teatro alla Scala in Milan since 1984. He graduated summa cum laude from the Conservatorio di Musica Giuseppe Verdi, with a special mention for his artistic achievement. Meloni has won dozens of national and international prizes, including the ARD (Munich) and Prague Spring international music competitions in 1987.

In 2009 he released several recordings, including the DVD Duets (Warner), and clarinet concertos by Françaix, Nielsen and Copland (Amadeus), as well as Ol ari Nyiro Diary, which took inspiration from novels by Kuki Gallmann. During the summer of 2015, Meloni toured Japan with Takahiro Yoshikawa, where they performed at Tokyo’s prestigious Suntory Hall, with NHK subsequently producing a documentary for its ‘Classic Club’ series, and in the same year the duo released the album Vief et Rythmique, featuring French clarinet and piano repertoire, on Deutsche Grammophon.

Meloni is the author of The Clarinet, (Zecchini Editore), which features a preface by Riccardo Muti. SKY Classica dedicated a documentary, Notevoli, to his artistic life.