Tromba
Raffaele Sabato, a 2009 trumpet graduate under Di Nardo, moves between Scala-level classical work and pop/rock collaborations with a first-trumpet command.
Raffaele Sabato, trumpeter, graduated in trumpet in 2009 with excellent marks under Maestro Di Nardo.
From 2009 to 2012 he played as section trumpet at the Teatro alla Scala, collaborating with international conductors including Daniel Barenboim, Daniele Gatti, and Roberto Abbado, and performing on European tour in venues such as Bol'šoj in Moscow and the KKL in Lucerne, as well as in Salzburg.
He has also been a stable collaborator with the Festival Pucciniano of Torre del Lago from 2012 to 2022. He has held roles as principal trumpet and orchestra inspector with several ensembles, including the Orchestra 150 di Piacenza and the Università Statale di Milano, with tours that also took him to the Leipzig Gewandhaus (2011); he has appeared on the Rai television program “Che tempo che fa” (2015) with Fabio Fazio, and has performed as a soloist in Korea at the Gyeoungju International music festival (2018).
Across his classical work and collaborations with pop/rock artists, Sabato brings an especially versatile, performance-ready trumpet sound to USO’s crossover programming.