Born in Rome in 1961, Alfredo Bernardini moved to Holland in 1981 in order to specialize in the baroque oboe and Early Music at the Royal Conservatory of the Hague with, among others, Bruce Haynes and Ku Ebbinge. In 1987 he obtained the Soloist Diploma.
He plays regularly with the most outstanding Early Music groups, including Hesperion XX, le Concert Des Nations, The Academy of Ancient Music, la Petite Bande, Das Freiburger Barockorchester, The English Concert, The Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, the Bach Collegium Japan and Balthasar Neumann Ensemble. In 1989 he founded the wind ensemble Zefiro together with the brothers Paolo and Alberto Grazzi.
He has performed in all European Countries, in the United States, in Canada, in South America, in China, Korea, Japan and Israel. He has taken part in about fifty recordings, some of which received important international prizes, for example the Cannes Classical Award 1995 for the Cb of Vivaldi's Concertos for Oboe.
Beside directing Zefiro as a baroque orchestra, he has directed orchestras in Italy, Spain, Portugal, Germany the Netherlands and Australia, as well as the European Baroque Orchestra, with whom he has toured China, Spain and Germany.
In addition to his playing career, he is active as a researcher into the history of wind instruments – many of his articles have been published by important international magazines – and he makes copies of historical oboes.
He teaches regurarly in summer courses, including Urbino, Venice, Barbaste and Innsbruck; since 1992 he has taught the Baroque Oboe at the Amsterdam Conservatory and from 2002 at the Escola Superior de Musica de Cataluña in Barcelona.
He performed at Stresa Festival in 2003, 2004, 2005 e 2006.