President of TYM COMPETITION and TYM FESTIVAL.
Raffaele Ficuciello, born in 1998, graduated at the Conservatory in Salerno, Giuseppe Martucci, with Maestro Salvatore Lombardi and after he is in the process of obtaining the graduation at the Conservatory in Avellino, Domenico Cimarosa, with Maestro Roberto Maggio. He studied for three years the annual courses held at the Falaut Association by Maestro Jean Claude Gerard as an active student. In 2019 he attended the course at the Accademia Chigiana in Siena with Patrick Gallois, where he performed the Karl Stamitz concert as a soloist in the academy hall. He partecipated to many masterclasses with: Larrieu, Gerard, Bruneel, Finco, Oliva, Loi, Evangelisti, Taballione, Fassbender, Macalli, Mario Caroli, Pretto, Manco, Marasco, Francesconi etc.
He is attending the annual chamber music course in flute and piano training with maestro Vito Venezia at the Nocerina musical academy. He played in concerts as a soloist and in chamber ensembles at the Italian Consulate of Culture in Paris, the Philharmonic Hall of the Sinfonietta Vidin, Vratsa and Montana in Bulgaria, Conservatory of Sofia NMA, the Verdi Theater in Salerno, St. Peter’s Square in the Vatican, the Feltrinelli in Naples, the American Church in Paris, the Euterpe León Hall (Spain), Montligeon Cathedral – Mamers (France), San Carlo Theater Foundation in Naples, Reggia di Carditello, Amalfi Cathedral; he participated in the music day at the Salerno social center in the years 2016 – 17 – 18, Castello della Leonessa in Montemiletto , Circolo Unione Pagani, Villa de Marco Montella.
He is the winner of more than 25 international and national competitions both as a soloist and in chamber music, City of Lamezia Terme, Sala Consilina, Eboli, Campagna, Nocera Inferiore, Baronissi, Sapri, Angri, Scafati, Caserta, Cava de’ Tirreni, Auletta, Pertosa.
He recorded 5 CDs with the Alfonsiana di Pagani ensemble (SA).