Born in 1968, Giuseppe F. Corpina began studying clarinet at the age of seven in Echternach (Luxembourg). When he went back to Italy he entered the Conservatory of Messina in 1982 where he kept studying under the tuition of Giuseppe Balbi – Principal Clarinet at Teatro Massimo in Palermo.
In 1990 he obtained his degree and was chosen to play as soloist the Clarinet Concert n. 2 in E-flat major of Carl Maria von Weber.
In the same year he won the position of Principal Clarinet in the Youth Sicilian Orchestra.
After an audition he played many times at the Teatro Massimo Orchestra in Palermo (1992 – 1993 – 2000 – 2010) where he also recorded Lulu by Alban Berg under the direction of Stefan Anton Reck.
He played most of masterpieces for clarinet and piano in various concerts. His repertory includes also chamber music and solo clarinet pieces.
Through the years he has been requested as First Clarinet in various Wind Orchestras and he also performed as Concertmaster in the Nebrodi Symphonic Band under the direction of Nunzio Ortolano with CD recording.
He was First Clarinet at the Messina Sinfonietta Orchestra and the Calabria Philharmonic Orchestra. He currently holds the same role at the Messina Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Nazzareno De Benedetto with whom he played, as a soloist, the concerto KV 622 by W.A. Mozart on December 2024.
Giuseppe F. Corpina plays on:
– French system clarinets Buffet Crampon, Mantes-La-Ville, France;
– German system clarinets Oscar Adler & Co., Markneukirchen, Germany.
On November 25th 2018 he performed as soloist Johann Stamitz’s Clarinet Concert in B-flat and Franz Xaver Pokorny’s Clarinet Concert in E-flat with German system clarinet.
He has been invited to hold master classes in Split (Croatia), in Novi Sad (Republic of Serbia), in Ankara (Turkey) and at the State Conservatoire in Tbilisi (Georgia). He has been invited by the Vytautas Magnus University Music Academy to take part at International VMU Staff Teaching week on May 2025. He regularly exchanges with clarinetist Roeland Hendrikx in Leuven (Belgium) at the LUCA School of Arts.
From November 2022 to May 2023, he attended the first edition of AEC ICON Seminar “The Artist as Teacher”.
Since November 2016 he is professor at the Conservatory of Messina. In 2019 he held the position of Erasmus coordinator for his conservatory. He is Head of Wind Department.
In 2025, Giuseppe F. Corpina became an artist of the SCV LIGATURES. He uses Tonus Mundi/Brass and Fusion/Nickel ligatures.
You can listen to one of his recordings here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gk9_Fx20-vlQjv3r6Awimy3_jbNx9Tme/view?usp=sharing