Claudio Santambrogio is a flutist, photographer, software tester and arctic guide.
He has been active as a flutist both in the field of early as well as contemporary music, specializing on period instruments. He studied flute at the Conservatory in Milano (Italy) and later on in Switzerland and Amsterdam (The Netherlands), specializing on contemporary techniques as well as historical performance practices. He has been awarded numerous awards in International competitions.
He has been working with numerous ensembles throughout Europe. He is particularly active in the field of chamber music, and is a member of The Modena Consort.
He is increasingly dedicating his work to the late Middle Ages, combining music with literature, and working as an actor alongside his musical performances. He has also conducted extensive research on iconographical and textual references of the transverse flute in the Middle Ages, and has explored the repertoire of what he believes being a forgotten golden age of the transverse flute, the late 14th century culminating in the so-called Ars subtilior. With Boaz Berney he worked on the reconstruction of an instrument for this repertoire, based on a very unusual instrument from the Musikinstrumentemeuseum in Berlin.
He has been working as a software tester for Opera Software for the last five years, and has worked as an arctic guide on Svalbard.
He is a self-taught photographer, working almost exclusively with analogue film cameras, primarily with large format 4x5, 5x7 and 8x10 cameras. He prefers to work with historical lenses, mounted in barrels without a shutter. This allows for the flexibility of manual exposure with the help of lens caps. He develops and processes the negatives and prints with traditional photographic craft and chemicals.
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