An internationally renowned flautist, musicologist and organologist, he began studying the flute at a very young age under the guidance of Severino Gazzeloni and Mario Carmignani, as a student at the “S. Cecilia” Conservatoire of Music in Rome, where he graduated with distinction under the supervision of Angelo Persichilli.
He continued his musical studies in the Netherlands with Maestro Franz Vester and, at the same time, attended advanced seminars and performance courses in France and Switzerland with Maestros Jean-Pierre Rampal and Aurèle Nicolet. As one of the first Italian performers to take an interest in the practice of playing historical transverse flutes, he devoted himself, from as early as 1975, to the self-taught study of Renaissance transverse flutes. In 1976 he founded the flute ensemble “Jambe de Fer”, which revived, for the first time in modern times, a quartet comprising “Renaissance transverse flutes” and traverso flutes.
He deepened his study of the traverso and, at the same time, developed a passion for the acoustics, restoration and reconstruction of early wind instruments; he visited the world’s leading musical instrument museums and the most important private collections, carrying out systematic research into original instruments. He maintains a busy concert schedule that has taken him all over Europe, the United States, Latin America, Japan, Korea and Australia.
He has recorded as a soloist for RAI, the German radio and television broadcaster WDR in Cologne, Radio Suisse Romande and Vatican Radio, and has released recordings on the labels EMI (France), Brilliant Classics (Netherlands), Jecklin and Flatus Recording (Switzerland), Edipan, Bongiovanni, Modus inveniendi and Pentaphon (Italy) and Da Vinci Classic (Japan).
His career as a flautist, spanning more than thirty years, has garnered numerous and authoritative accolades from international critics, including: “Enrico Casularo, an artist never at a loss for invention and expressiveness” (L’Express, Montreux, June 2001); “Perfection in the art of the flute” (Der Bund, 2002); “…A lively, expressive, refined interpretation… musical depth worthy of Bach” (Il Tempo, 01/1992); “…An absolutely convincing clarity of presentation” (Guitart magazine, no. 42, 2006); “…An intensely powerful interpretation, always in search of sonic intimacy and fascination” (Heraldo de Aragón, 09/2004); “…To be commended without reservation” (La Repubblica, 09/1990); “…An expressive and communicative coherence that “engages” the audience, drawing them in” (La Provincia di Como, 02/1992).
He has taught at the University of Austin (Texas), the Valais Cantonal Conservatoire of Music, the École Actuelle de Musique in Sion (Switzerland), the S. Ganassi School of the Italian Foundation for Early Music, and the International Early Music Courses in Urbino. He regularly holds masterclasses at the Geneva Higher Conservatoire of Music, the Schola Cantorum Basilensis, the Daroca Early Music Festival, the Zaragoza Higher Conservatoire of Music and the Neuchâtel Conservatoire. He is Professor of traverso flute at the “Santa Cecilia” Conservatoire in Rome. Since 2010 he has been writing for the flute magazine Falaut and is the author of the book “Ricerche sulla storia e letteratura del flauto traverso in Italia e oltre” (Sion, Flatus, 2010).
As a musicologist, he has edited for the Swiss music publisher Afflatus important unpublished works for the flute by Giovanni Battista Sammartini, Giovanni Andrea Fioroni, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Pietro Grassi Florio, Antonio Paganelli, Benedetto Marcello, Luigi Boccherini, Ignace Pleyel, Tebaldo Monzani, Niccolò Dôthel, Antonio Vivaldi, Johan Baptist Vanhal, Ferdinando Carulli, Antonio Nava, Giovanni Tadolini and Leonard von Call. For the same publishing house he currently edits several series of previously unpublished instrumental music from the 18th and 19th centuries for flute, harp, guitar and piano.