Lorenzo Coppola was born in Rome. He has studied historical clarinet under the guidance of Eric Hoeprich at The Hague Royal Conservatory.

After moving to Paris in 1991, he began playing music with a variety of ensembles specialized in playing on historical instruments, including Les Arts Florissants, La Petite Bande as well as the Freiburger Barockorchester – an orchestra performing without a conductor, which specialises in Classical and early Romantic repertoire. He draws on this experience in workshops dealing with historical methods and strategies for working on repertoire and performing without a conductor.

He also devotes a great deal of attention to the historical links between theatre, opera and instrumental music. He shares his love for chamber music with musicians such as Isabelle Faust, Alexander Melnikov, Ensemble Zefiro and Quatuor Terpsycordes.

With pianist Cristina Esclapez he founded Ensemble Dialoghi, with which they explore a wide chamber music repertoire, with special care regarding the communication with the audience, and with which he has appeared three times at the Festival »Chopin and his Europe«.

He has been teaching historical clarinet at the Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya in Barcelona since 2004.

He has recorded some significant pieces of the clarinet repertoire, including Mozart Clarinet Concerto (with Freiburger Barockorchester), Mozart Clarinet Quintet (with Kuijken Quartet) and Brahms Sonatas (with Andreas Staier), for such labels as Harmonia Mundi, Callyope, Astrée-Auvidis, Challenge and Sony. In 2020 he recorded Karol Kurpiński’s Clarinet Concerto with the {oh!} Orkiestra Historyczna for the Fryderyk Chopin Institute. A new CD of Ensemble Dialoghi with music by Franciszek Lessel, Robert Schumann Fryderyk Chopin has been recently released.