He graduated from the N.Paganini Conservatory of Genoa under the guidance of Maestro P.P Fantini with full marks and honours. Subsequently he specialized at the Zürcher Hochschule der Kunste with Professor Fabio di Casola. He attended Alessandro Carbonare’s courses at the Accademia Chigiana and the Accademia di Santa Cecilia. In 2016 he participated in the Verbier Festival Academy Orchestra and subsequently in 2018 in the Lucerne Festival. Invited to play as first clarinet with various orchestras and opera institutions such as: Orchestra della Toscana, Orchestra dell’Opera di Zurich, the Musikkollegium of Winterthur, the Accademia di Santa Cecilia, the Teatro dell’Opera San Carlo of Naples and the Orchester National de Lyon. In 2016 he won the competition at the Estonian National Opera (Estonia), in 2017 at the Vasteras Sinfonietta in Sweden, in 2018 at the Oulu Sinfonia (Finland), in 2021 at the Opera National de lyon (France), in 2022 at the BBC Symphony orchestra in London and in 2023 at the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome, all as first clarinet. Yoshua Fortunato is currently Principal Clarinet at the Rome Opera Orchestra and is a Selmer and Vandoren artist.