Francesco and Stefano Parrinoviolin and flute

Via Mac Mahon 30 20155 Milan Italy

FranzParrino@aol.co.uk+39 347 4419207

www.violinandflute.comparrino@tiscali.it+39 328 4448458

BiographyBeing brothers as well as colleagues, Francesco and Stefano Parrino have always collaborated musically. Soloists with international careers, they are also founding members of the Trio Albatros Ensemble and the Quartetto DuePiùDue – two of the most interesting ensembles in the Italian and internatio-nal chamber scene – and boast collaborations with some of the most significant modern and contem-porary composers. Both have obtained several degrees in prestigious European musical and university institutions and have performed in important theatres and concert halls in Austria, Chile, China, Colombia, Croatia, Estonia, France, Hong- Kong, Italy, Peru, Romania, Russia, Slovenia,

Spain, Switzerland, Turkey and United Kingdom, receiving enthusiastic praise from the public and the critics alike.

Their repertoires span from eighteenth-century to contemporary music, with special attention to the nineteen-th-century repertoire and the discovery of unjustly neglected works and composers. Both of them are busy pedagogues and are currently teaching staff at the Conservatories “Niccolò Paganini” of Genoa and “Arcangelo Corelli” in Messina. They are the founders and organisers of the Festival-Masterclass “LeAltreNote”, an internatio-nal event that takes place in Valtellina (Italy).

In 2015, which marked the fiftieth anniversary of Giorgio Federico Ghedini’s death, Francesco and Stefano have given a series of concerts celebrating the composer and, together with the violin concerto (“Il belprato”) and the flute concerto (Sonata da concerto), have been privileged to perform Ghedini’s double concerto “dell’Alderina” for flute, violin and strings for the first time in sixty five years, since its first and sole performance. Francesco and Stefano have collaborated as soloists with several orchestras: the ensembles of Aarad and Kosice, the Turin Philharmonic, the Orchestra of the Catanzaro Province, the Sicilian Symphony Orchestra, the “Armonici” Cham-ber Orchestra, the “Bartolomeo Bruni” Chamber Orchestra, the “Stesichoros” Chamber Orchestra, the San Remo Symphony, the Academic Orchestra of the St. Petersburg Philharmonic, the Symphonia of the London Royal Academy of Music, the Suisse-Italian Radio Orchestra, the “Arturo Toscanini” Symphony.

They have made numerous world première recordings for the Stradivarius label as soloists (Friedrich Kuhlau, Saverio Mercadante, Henri Vieuxtemps), soloists with orchestra (Giorgio Federico Ghedini and Gian Francesco Malipiero), in duo with piano (Louis Spohr) and in trio (Bohuslav Martinů and Nino Rota). Another world première, the double CD containing the flute quartets by Giuseppe Maria Cambini (Quartetto DuePiùDue), has recently been released by Brilliant Classics and the same record label will soon release Leo Ornstein’s works for violin and piano as well as for flute and piano.

Francesco plays on three beautiful violins: a Gaetano Gadda (circa 1930), a Giacomo & Leandro Bisiach (1962) and a Giuseppe & Antonio Gagliano (circa 1790-1805) that he has been generously lent by the heirs of the great conductor Gino Marinuzzi. He owns two precious bows made by Benoit Rolland and a 1930 Eugène Sartory he was given by an anonymous admi-rer. Stefano, beside being ambassador of AZUMI flutes in Italy, is a Yamaha International Artist. He plays two precious Yamaha wooden and golden flutes.