Italian born, Alfredo Bernardini studied early music in the Netherlands, in order to master baroque oboe and antique music with, among the others, Bruce Haynes and Ku Ebbinge, and where he graduated in 1987. He has since performed all over the world as a member of ensembles, such as Hesperion XX, Le Concert des Nations, La Petite Bande, The Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, The English Concert, Bach Collegium Japan and others. He is a founding member of the ensemble Zefiro, which has been awarded important international prizes. He has played in more than 100 recordings: among the others, his CD with concerts for oboe of Vivaldi has been awarded with the Cannes Classic Award in 1995. In 1999 he conducted Zefiro in a documentary focused on Antonio Vivaldi, for the Belgian television. Beside leading Zafiro in the orchestral formation, he has been guest conductor of baroque orchestras in Italy, Spain, France, Portugal, Austria, Germany, Holland, Poland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Israel, Australia, Canada, Venezuela, Cuba, and of the European Union Baroque Orchestra.
His researches on the history of wind instruments has been used in several articles for international specialized magazines. Since 1992, he has taught at the Conservatory of Amsterdam, and from 2002 to 2007 at the Escola Superior de Musica de Catalunya. He is also a guest professor at several other conservatories and summer classes in Italy, France, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Austria, Israel, United States, and others. Since 2014 Bernardini has been a professor at the Mozarteum University of Salzburg.
