Born in Lugano, won first prize at the Geneva International Music Competition (CIEM) in 1990, the Prix Suisse and the Prix Patek Philippe and the first prize in Stresa for contemporary music. In 1998 he was Swiss Musician of the Year by the jury and the public. From 1990 to 2010 he was principal clarinettist of the Musikkollegium Winterthur. Since 1991 he has been professor of clarinet and chamber music at the Zurich University of the Arts. Arts. In 2006 he founded the festival sound and is its artistic director; numerous of his CDs have been released by Sony Classical. Di Càsola is co-founder of the Ensemble Kandinsky and the wind quintet Swiss.5 and solo clarinettist of the Swiss National Orchestra.

The Italian pianist, chamber musician and conductor has performed regularly at concert societies and festivals in Europe and Russia. festivals in Europe and Russia and was a piano teacher for several years at the Kalaidos University of Music in Switzerland. In 2013 he received the First prize at the International Piano Competition of the UK Liszt Society in London (unanimous vote of the jury). Parallel to his career as a pianist, he devoted himself to studying orchestral conducting and made his debuts as a conductor with philharmonic orchestras in Russia. His activities also include studio and recording recording work with CD productions for, among others Tactus and radio recordings for the Radio Svizzera Italiana and Radio Vaticana. He lives in Vienna, where he works in continuous collaboration with instrumentalists and singers in the chamber music repertoire as well as chamber music repertoire as well as in the opera and lied repertoire