Born in 1968, Giuseppe F. Corpina attended the Conservatory of Messina in 1982 where he kept studying under the tuition of Giuseppe Balbi. In 1990 he obtained his degree and was chosen to play as soloist the Clarinet Concert n. 2 in E-flat major of Carl Maria von Weber. In the same year he won the position of Principal Clarinet in the Youth Sicilian Orchestra. He played many times at the Teatro Massimo Orchestra in Palermo where he also recorded Lulu by Alban Berg under the conduction of Stefan Anton Reck. Trough the years he has been requested as First Clarinet in various Wind Orchestras. In recent years, he met Luciano Troja with whom he began an artistic partnership that brought him in the Jazz world playing with artist such as Dave Burrell, Fred Hersch, Marc Copland, Blaise Sivula, Rocco Iacovone, Salvatore Bonafede, Richie Beirach, Karl Berger and Helene Zindarsian. Nowadays he plays as Principal Clarinet at the Sinfonietta Orchestra in Messina. Giuseppe F. Corpina plays on: - french system clarinets Buffet Crampon, Mantes-La-Ville, France; - german system clarinets Oscar Adler & Co., Markneukirchen, Germany. On November 25th 2018 he performed as soloist Johann Stamitz’s Clarinet Concert in B-flat and Franz Xaver Pokorny’s Clarinet Concert in E-flat with German system clarinet. He has been invited to hold master classes in Leuven (Belgium), Split (Croatia) and Novi Sad (Republic of Serbia). Since November 2016 he is professor at the Conservatory of Messina.