Antonio Di Lauro

Antonio Di Lauro was born in Campobasso on 10/08/1961. He began his journey into the world of sound at the age of 8. He studied and trained under the guidance of the religious family 'I Discepoli' in Amatrice (RI) and Ofena (AQ). He studied classical guitar under the guidance of Maestro Pasquale GARZIA and harmony and composition with Maestro Erminio Sallustio, specializing at the Cleveland Institute of Music in Cleveland - OHIO (U.S.A.) and Walther School of Music in Perth (West Australia).

Since 1990, he has been organizing international summer music camps, and in 1994, in the Circolo Musicale "P. Mascagni" ONLUS of Ripalimosani (CB) where he is Artistic Director, he founded the "Ripese School" to propose to them an investment to be spent in musical culture - a great sign of real social prevention activity. Today, it has a permanent campus and music workshops where people can study plucked string instruments free of charge.

Renowned as a prestigious arranger, recognized and appreciated by numerous distinguished masters and concert performers, Maestro Di Lauro often conducts his concerts strictly from memory and with a high level of interpretative and technical mastery. Since 2016, he has been President of the Italian Mandolin Federation, Superintendent of the Molise Mandolin Federation, and since 2019, co-director of the Mediterranean plectrum orchestra.

In 2007 he graduated in music therapy from the European School of Senigallia. He carried out projects authorized by the M.I.U.R. (Ministry of Education, University and Research), particularly, the pilot project entitled "Reading, Writing, Dyslexia in a Musical Sound Environment."

Since 2010, he has been organizing, and he is the Artistic Director of the only international mandolin competition in the world dedicated to the great figure of Raffaele Calace (1863-1934), defined by the world critics as "the Paganini of the mandolin," and on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the Unification of Italy, on the proposal of the Municipal Administration of Ripalimosani (CB), the Ministry of Heritage and Culture, in Rome, on 17 March 2011, the then Minister of Heritage and Culture, Sen. Sandro Bondi, for all the activities carried out within the association, recognizes the "Scuola Ripese" as a "School of National Interest.".

To date, he has conducted over 300 concerts in Italy and Europe.