Events

Altberg Ensemble

Georg Friedrich Händel (1685 – 1759)

Overture to the opera Julius Caesar

Concerto in G minor for oboe, strings and b.c. [HWV 287]
Grave – Allegro – Sarabande – Allegro

Concerto Grosso op. 6 nr 1
A tempo giusto – Allegro – Adagio – Allegro – Allegro

Concerto Bb major for oboe, strings and b.c. [HWV 302a]
Vivace – Allegro – Andante – Allegro

Concerto Grosso op. 3 nr 2
Vivace – Largo – Allegro – no tempo indication – no tempo indication

Alfredo Bernardini Born in Rome in 1961, Alfredo Bernardini moved to The Netherlands in 1981 to specialize in baroque oboe and early music with, among others, Bruce Haynes and Ku Ebbinge. In 1987 he received his soloist diploma from the Royal Conservatory of The Hague. In 1985 he was a member of the European Union Baroque Orchestra in its first year of existence. He has since performed all over Europe, in Russia, U.S.A., Canada, Japan, China, Korea, Malaysia, Egypt, Israel, South America and Australia as a member of prestigious baroque ensembles such as Hesperion XX, Le Concert des Nations, La Petite Bande, The Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, Das Freiburger Barockorchester, The English Concert, Bach Collegium Japan, Balthasar Neumann Ensemble and others. He has played in more than 100 recordings. In 1989 he founded the ensemble ZEFIRO together with the brothers Paolo and Alberto Grazzi. His recordings with Zefiro have won important prizes such as the Cannes Classical Award and the Diapason d’Or de l’Année 2009. As a director, he has worked with orchestras in Italy, France, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Belgium, Holland, Ireland, Denmark, Norway, Poland, the UK, Sweden, Canada, Cuba, Australia, Israel and with the European Union Baroque Orchestra. In January 2013 he was counsellor and director of the first baroque orchestra project of “El Sistema de Musica” of Venezuela. His research on the history of woodwind musical instruments has resulted in several articles published by important international magazines. From 1992 to 2015 he taught baroque oboe at the Conservatory of Amsterdam and since 2014 he is professor at the Mozarteum University of Salzburg. He also taught from 2002 to 2009 at the Escola Superior de Musica de Cataluña in Barcelona. He has also been guest teacher in music academies and summer courses in Italy, France, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Austria, Denmark, Israel, Australia, Canada, Venezuela, Cuba and the U.S.A..