Alfredo Bernardini

Alfredo Bernardini is a oboist and music teacher. Born in Rome in 1961, Alfredo Bernardini moved to the Netherlands in 1981 to specialize in early music and baroque oboe with masters such as Bruce Haynes and Ku Ebbinge. In 1987, he received his first Best Actor Award at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague. He has performed in Europe, Russia, the United States and Japan, China, Korea, Malaysia, Egypt, Israel, South America and Australia as a member of the great baroque ensembles such as Hesperion XX, Le Concert des Nations, La Petite Bande, The Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, Das Freiburger Baroque Orchestra, The English Concert, Bach Collegium Japan, Balthasar Neumann Ensemble and many others. In 1989, he founded the ensemble Zefiro with brothers Paolo and Alberto Grazzi. He has participated in more than 100 recordings. Among these, his recording of Vivaldi oboe concertos received in 1995, the Cannes Award classical. In 1999, he produced together with a documentary film about Zefiro Antonio Vivaldi for Belgian television. As a leader, he has worked with orchestras in countries such as Italy, France, Germany, Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands, Poland, Australia and was chief for Baroque Orchestra of the European Union. Meanwhile, his research on the history of wind instruments gives rise to several articles that are published by major international magazines. Since 1992, he teaches baroque oboe at the Conservatory of Amsterdam and from 2002 to 2005 he was professor at the Escola Superior de Musica de Catalunya in Barcelona. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.