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Fabio Caggese was born in Foggia, Italy in 1980.
At the age of 17 he began studying double bass at the Umberto Giordano Conservatory in Foggia, Italy.

"When I arrived in Milan in 2000, I studied stage design for two years, without a degree, at the city's Academy of Fine Arts. Painting was always my passion, especially the classic and the Renaissance inspired me; as a stage designer I was able to combine everything, technical drawing and planning atmospheric pictures ... ".
In July 2004 he graduated from the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Milan with Maestro Piermario Murelli.
In the same year he completed a two-year orchestra course with the Italian Youth Orchestra as a solo double bass player and at the same time attended the "Accademia Walter Stauffer" in Cremona with Maestro Franco Petracchi.
In 2005 he took a course with Prof. H.-D. Wenkel at the University of Music "Franz Liszt" in Weimar and graduated with an artistic diploma.

This was followed by a one-year postgraduate course A with Prof. Dominik Greger.
During his studies he acted as a representative in the following professional orchestras: Giuseppe Verdi symphony orchestra in Milan; “Cassa di Risparmio di Roma” symphony orchestra in Rome; Symphony Orchestra "I Pomeriggi Musicali" in Milan; ORT (Tuscany Symphony Orchestra) in Florence; Orchestra Accademica del Teatro alla Scala in Milan and Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra Wernigerode.

"During my work as a musician, I had the chance to admire the work on and off the stage, how new stage sets are built and the art of representation works; a stage set does not always have to correspond to reality, it only serves Imagination of the audience ... "
As a soloist, he performed solo evenings with pianist Jana Davidová in Ostrava and Trnavka, Czech Republic and played Concerto No. 2 in B minor by Giovanni Bottesini for string orchestra and double bass with the orchestra of the Nordharzer Städbundtheater in Halberstadt.

From 2010 to 2013 he worked as a solo double bass player at the Nordharzer Städbundtheater in Halberstadt.
March 2013 he was employed as a solo double bass player with the Brandenburg Symphony Orchestra.

"I kept practicing painting and learning different new techniques. In this way I tried not to distinguish myself in one style ...

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