{{Short description|British entrepreneur and violinist}} {{notability|biographies|date=May 2026}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} '''Andrew Bernardi''' (born 22 April 1965) is an English violinist, educator, festival director and entrepreneur.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=Bql1AAAAIAAJ British Music Yearbook – Annabel Carter – Google Boeken<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=9RMKAQAAMAAJ British and International Music Yearbook – Toby Deller – Google Boeken<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=eDGPAAAACAAJ Child in Time: The Life Story of the Singer from Deep Purple - Ian Gillan, David Cohen - Google Boeken<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.trinitylaban.ac.uk/junior-trinity/main-programme/teaching-staff |title=Teaching Staff {{!}} Junior Trinity {{!}} Trinity Laban<!-- Bot generated title --> |access-date=2014-01-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140102195941/http://www.trinitylaban.ac.uk/junior-trinity/main-programme/teaching-staff |archive-date=2014-01-02 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>[http://www.andreasarlo.com/blog/2012/11/sussex-arts-academy-launch-night-at-sedgwick-park/ Sussex Arts Academy-Launch night at Sedgwick Park » Andrea Sarlo's Photography Blog<!-- Bot generated title -->]{{dead link|date=May 2026}}</ref><ref>[http://www.ceciliamcdowall.co.uk/works/orchestral Orchestral works by Cecilia McDowall, British Composer<!-- Bot generated title -->]{{dead link|date=May 2026}}</ref><ref>[http://www.lodgehill.org.uk/about-us/news/solh-christmas-pudding-concert/ Lodge Hill Centre : SOLH Christmas Pudding Concert<!-- Bot generated title -->]{{dead link|date=May 2026}}</ref>
He lives in the parish of Shipley near Horsham, and has performed with many of the UK's leading orchestras, including Guildford Philharmonic Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and The Bernardi Music Group. He is a member of staff at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance. 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 Jon Lord (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 The Skinners' School, Tunbridge Wells, Leeds University Bretton Hall and Trinity College of Music, where he led all the orchestras as a postgraduate scholar. Bernardi plays on the 'Amici Bernardi Stradivarius violin, and violin bow formerly owned by Yehudi Menuhin.
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