Claudio Cavina is the most important italian countertenor of his generation: he began his vocal studies in Bologna with Candace Smith, and continued his training with Kurt Widmer and Renè Jacobs at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis. He performes regulary with many early music groups such as Clemencic Consort, Huelgas Ensemble, La Colombina, Elyma Ensemble, Concerto Italiano, Europa Galante, Al Ayre Espanol, Le Parlement de Musique, Fitzwilliam Ensemble, and has performed as guest artist in many prestigious festivals in Europe (Madrid, Barcelona, Paris, Ambronay, Geneve, Brugge, Antwerp, Utrecht, Amsterdam, London, Glasgow) and throughout the world (Tel Aviv, Tokyo, Mexico City).
In 1996 he fouded La Venexiana, the italian madrigal group that won with his interpretation of italian madrigals the Prix Cecilia 1999 and Premio Fondazione Cini of Venice (Marenzio’s 9th book of madrigals), the Gramophone Award 2000 and Cannes Classical Award 2001 (Gesualdo’s 4th Book of Madrigals), Prix Amadeus 2002 (Marenzio’s 6th Book of Madrigals), Deutsch SchallplattenPreis (Gesualdo's 5th Book of madrigals and Monteverdi's 6th Book of Madrigals) CHOC of the Year 2005 (Monteverdi's 6th Book of madrigals) : La Venexiana is considerated as “NEW ORPHEUS” of italian madrigal music.
With Monteverdi's Orfeo he presented in several important Festival in Europe on 2007 ( Melk, Regensburg, Bruges, Lufthansa Festival London, St. Gallen, Lyon, Modena, Udine, Jerez).
In 2008 will avalable the whole Monteverdi Edition, recorded by Glossa Music.
Claudio Cavina teaches at the Corsi Internazionali di Belluno, Urbino in Italy, Tsuru in Japan.