Ruggero Allifranchini

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Ruggero Allifranchini is the associate concertmaster of the SPCO. He was born into a musical household in Milan, Italy and raised on a diverse musical diet, ranging from Beethoven to John Coltrane. He studied at the New School in Philadelphia with Jascha Brodsky and later at the Curtis Institute of Music, with Szymon Goldberg and, for chamber music, Felix Galimir. He was the recipient of the Diploma d’Onore from the Chigiana Academy in Siena, Italy. In 1989, he co-founded the Borromeo String Quartet, with which he played exclusively for eleven years. As a chamber musician of diverse repertoire and styles, Allifranchini is a frequent guest artist of the Chamber Music Societies of Boston and Lincoln Center, as well as chamber music festivals in Seattle, Vancouver and El Paso, among many others. He is the violinist of the trio Nobilis, with pianist and former SPCO Artistic Partner Stephen Prutsman and cellist Suren Bagratuni. Nobilis has performed chamber music and solos with orchestras in Europe, South America and South Africa, as well as in North America. Allifranchini plays on the “Fetzer” violin made by Antonio Stradivari in 1694, which is on loan to him from the Stradivari Society of Chicago.

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Autumn Violin Concerto, RV 293, performed as part of The Four Seasons

Brandenburg Concerto No. 1, performed as part of Bach's Brandenburg Concertos

Brandenburg Concerto No. 3, performed as part of Bach's Brandenburg Concertos

Brandenburg Concerto No. 4, performed as part of Bach's Brandenburg Concertos

Brandenburg Concerto No. 5, performed as part of Bach's Brandenburg Concertos

Djembach, Suite for Solo Violin (or Whatever) and Percussion, performed as part of Chamber Music Series #5 (2011)

Fanfare for a New Theatre for Two Trumpets, performed as part of Chamber Music Series #5 (2011)

Hammer and Bow, Fantasy for Violin and Marimba, performed as part of Chamber Music Series #5 (2011)

Spring Violin Concerto, RV 269, performed as part of The Four Seasons

Summer Violin Concerto, RV 315, performed as part of The Four Seasons

Tabula Rasa for Two Violins, Strings and Prepared Piano, performed as part of Bicket Does Baroque and Beyond

Winter Violin Concerto, RV 297, performed as part of The Four Seasons

Chamber Symphony for Strings and Winds, Op. 73a, performed as part of SPCO and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

Concerto No. 1 in C for Violin and Orchestra, performed as part of Haydn’s Clock Symphony

Concerto in E Minor for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 8, No. 9, performed as part of Treasures of the Italian Baroque

Double Violin Concerto in D Minor, performed as part of Opening Night with Joana Carneiro and Cantus

Fantasy in C for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 131 , performed as part of Schumann's Piano Concerto

Octet in E-flat for Strings, Op. 20, performed as part of Mendelssohn's Octet

Quartet for Oboe, Violin, Viola and Cello, Op. 2, Phantasy, performed as part of Chamber Music Series #3: Mozart and Britten

Sextet from Capriccio, A Conversation Piece for Music in One Movement, Op. 85 , performed as part of Allifranchini Plays Bruch's Violin Concerto

String Quartet Op. 76, No. 3, Emperor, performed as part of Haydn and the Holligers

Violin Concerto No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 26 , performed as part of Allifranchini Plays Bruch's Violin Concerto