Claudio Scimone is an Italian conductor. He was born in Padua, Italy and studied conducting with Dmitri Mitropoulos and Franco Ferrara. He has established an international reputation as a conductor, as well as a composer. He has revived many baroque and renaissance works. His discography includes over 150 titles, and he has won numerous prizes, including the Grand Prix du Disque of the Charles Cros Academy. He is the founder of I Solisti Veneti and is the honorary conductor of the Gulbenkian Orchestra in Lisbon, Portugal. 

December 21st, 1934 in Padua (Age 90)