Andrew Bernardi (born 22 April 1965) is an English

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ist, educator, festival director and entrepreneur. He lives in the parish of Shipley near

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, and has performed with many of the UK's leading orchestras, including

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Philharmonic Orchestra, the

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and The Bernardi Music Group. He is a member of staff at

Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance is a music, dance, and musical theatre conservatoire based in South East London. It was formed in 2005 as a merger of two older institutions – Trinity College of Music and Laban Dance Centre. Trini ...

. He has founded Bernardi Music Group, Shipley Arts Festival, Stradivarius Piano Trio, String Academy. The Shipley Arts Festival has commissioned new works, including ''Great Hill's'' by Cecilia McDowall, ''The Margraves Dream'' by Malcolm Singer and '' To Notice Such Things'' by the late

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(formerly of Deep Purple). He has for many years collaborated with the Yehudi Menuhin School, with whom he closed the 2019 Shipley Festival with Malcolm Singer's cantata ''Dragons''. He has performed as guest concertmaster for Manchester Camerata, the Oporto Chamber Orchestra, and leading Bernardi Music Group. He is married to Lucy Bernardi and they have a son, Joshua Bernardi. Bernardi was educated at

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, Tunbridge Wells, Leeds University Bretton Hall and

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, where he led all the orchestras as a postgraduate scholar. Bernardi plays on the 'ex-Kym' Stradivarius violin, notable for its theft from Euston Station in 2010, and violin bow formerly owned by Yehudi Menuhin.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Bernardi, Andrew 1965 births Living people British male violinists Alumni of the University of Leeds Alumni of Trinity College of Music Skinners 21st-century English violinists 21st-century British male musicians