Francesco Parrino

violin

Viotti Ensemble

Francesco Parrino made his musical and humanistic studies at prestigious Dutch, English and Italian universities and academies, studying violin with Yfrah Neaman and David Takeno. He has made concert tours of Austria, Chile, China, Colombia, Croatia, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Italy, Peru, United Kingdom, Romania, Russia, Slovenia, Switzerland and Turkey, and played as a soloist with several orchestras (St. Petersburg Philharmonic, Turin Philharmonic, Sicilian Symphony Orchestra, etc.).

He has written various musicological articles and contributed papers to conferences at the Universities of Cambridge, London, Oxford and York as well as at the American Musicological Society. Francesco plays with a Giuseppe & Antonio Gagliano (1790-1805 circa) violin belonging to the family of the famous Conductor M° Marinuzzi, he records for Stradivarius and teaches at the Conservatorio “Nicolò Paganini”, Genoa.