Elia Celegato, born in Padova, Italy, started clarinet studies with Stefano Righetto at the Conservatorio of Padova “Cesare Pollini” and graduated with Luca Lucchetta in 2017. From 2018, he would start his Masters in Historical Clarinet at the Royal Conservatoire of The Hague under the tutelage of Eric Hoeprich and would graduate in 2020, during which he performed Schubert’s “Great” and “Unfinished” symphonies with the Orchestra of the Eighteenth-Century conducted by Sir. Roger Norrington. In 2020, Elia was selected for the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment Academy in London, conducted by Margaret Faultless. He has been the principal clarinetist of DNMO since 2019.