Darío Mariño Varela studied at the Hochschule für Musik “Hanns Eisler” in Berlin and at the Karajan Academy of the Berlin Philharmonic with Wenzel Fuchs, Karl-Heinz Steffens, and Walter Seyfarth. He completed his training at the Gustav Mahler Academy in Italy, at the International Festival of Santander, at the Zermatt Festival in Switzerland, and at the Pacific Music Festival (PMF) in Japan, where he met clarinetists such as Gerald Pachinger, Alexander Bader, Ricardo Morales, and Peter Schmidl. During his studies, he was the solo clarinetist of the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra under the baton of Claudio Abbado.
Passionate about orchestral repertoire, he collaborates as a clarinet soloist with chamber orchestras such as the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Münchener Kammerorchester; with symphony orchestras such as the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and the Hamburger Symphoniker; with German radio orchestras such as the DSO and RSB Berlin, NDR Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, hr-Sinfonieorchester Frankfurt, WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln, and Radio-Sinfonieorchester des SWR Stuttgart, and with opera houses such as the Deutsche Oper and Komische Oper Berlin and the Nationaltheater Mannheim.
He has worked with conductors such as Abbado, Rattle, Järvi, Gergiev, Barenboim, Thielemann, Blomstedt, Davis, Mehta, Bisanti, Haitink, Boulez, Dudamel, and Jansons, among others.
In the field of chamber music, he shares the stage with musicians such as Anne LeBozec, Alain Meunier, Leif Ove Andsnes, Stephan Picard, Martin Menking, Björn Lehmann, Maurice Bourgue, Radovan Vlatkovic, Klaus Thunemann, Amihai Grosz, Guy Braunstein, Paul Rivinius, Daniel Heide, and Julia Okruashvili. He was a founding member of the Natalia Ensemble and collaborates with the Scharoun Ensemble of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.
Darío Mariño has been a clarinet soloist in the Konzerthausorchester Berlin and the Staatstheater Kassel before joining the Symphony Orchestra of the Gran Teatro del Liceo in 2018.