CLAUDIO CAPPONI is an Italian Violist, Composer, Music Producer and Electronic Strings Instruments Inventor and Producer.

He began his musical career at a young age and graduated from the Conservatorio di Santa Cecilia in Rome, Italy, with high honours and honorable mention. His Maestro being Bruno Giuranna, Alfonso Ghedin, Dino Asciolla, Franco Tamponi.

He then became I° Solo Violist in the most important Italian orchestras, including the Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, and Teatro di San Carlo in Naples, with conductors such as Leonard Bernstein, Claudio Abbado, Lorin Maazel, Riccardo Muti, Carlo Maria Giulini, and Giuseppe Sinopoli and many others..

As classical musician, Claudio has also performed with chamber music ensembles such as I Musici, I Virtuosi di Roma, Complesso da camera di Santa Cecilia, Orchestra da camera di Santa Cecilia, Quartetto Filarmonico di Roma, and has toured such music theatres as the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena and the Mozarteum of Salzburg, with soloists such as Mstislav Rostropovich, Uto Ughi and many others..

In Italy he has taught at the Conservatorio di Santa Cecilia di Roma, Pescara and Terni.  He is currently teaching at Conservatorio di Musica di Trapani.

In the Pop and Rock fields he has performed live with Angelo Branduardi, Riccardo Cocciante, Richie Havens and Stephen Stills and many others...

His credits as a film score composer include Voices of Dissent by Carlo Nero, The Fever by Carlo Nero, produced by HBO Films, My House in Umbria by Richard Loncraine, produced by HBO Films, Jane Eyre by Franco Zeffirelli (Miramax), Sparrow by Franco Zeffirelli (CGG), Dio vede e provvede, a miniseries by Enrico Oldoini and P. Costella (LuxVide), Va’ dove ti porta il cuore, by Cristina Comencini (Videa), La fine è nota by Cristina Comencini (RAI 2), Italia-Germania 4-3 by Andrea Barzini (RAI 2), Croce e delizia by Luciano De Crescenzo (Airoldi/DeDionisio), Toscana by Franco Zeffirelli (produced by the Region of Tuscany), Cervellini fritti impanati by Maurizio Zaccaro (IIF), La valle di pietra by Maurizio Zaccaro (PentaFilm), L’Articolo 2 by Maurizio Zaccaro (ReteItalia/Mikado), E non se ne vogliono andare, miniseries by Giorgio Capitani (Clesi), Ma se poi se ne vanno? miniseries by Giorgio Capitani, (Clesi).

His theatre career includes original music for Franco Zeffirelli's Sei personaggi in cerca d’autore.

He is also composer of music for ballets, commercials, and TV advertisements for companies such as Telecom Italia, Enel, Alfa Romeo etc.

Continuing a family tradition of luthiers, he founded LIUTALY in 2014, a patenting start-up which designs and manufactures  Electronic Strings Intruments (iV, IC), Digital Instruments that integrate and interact with the most recent technologies, smartphones and tablets, to produce alternative sounds.