Clive Lyoff Amadio

Clive Lyoff Amadio AM (28 February 1904 – 21 October 1983) was an Australian saxophonist and clarinettist. His brother was flautist Neville Amadio.

Career Clive Amadio was born 1904 in Darlington, New South Wales, and received early music lessons from his father. During his teens, he performed in ensembles providing soundtracks for silent films and toured as solo saxophonist on the Tivoli circuit.

Following World War II, his Clive Amadio Quintet was broadcast nationally by ABC Radio, and would remain on the air for almost twenty years.

He taught saxophone at the NSW State Conservatorium of Music (1942–45) as Professor of Clarinet and Saxophone, and in 1954 played for Queen Elizabeth II at a royal banquet.

Clive Amadio died in 1983. Their cousin Len Amadio was concert manager for the ABC in Adelaide.

He married Gwendolen Marjorie Morgan on 25 August 1928, He married Laurie Mary Walley on 2 October 1935, but later divorced, and Amadio married Olga Krasnik in 1967.

The National Library of Australia hold a file on Clive Amadio, and the papers of the Amadio family including notes for Don Westlake's biography From me to you: the Life and Times of Clive Amadio and a telegram relating to Clive Amadio's Order of Australia.