Luigi Alberto Bianchi

Luigi Alberto Bianchi (1 January 1945 – 3 January 2018)

The violin classes being oversubscribed at a music college in Rome, he instead studied viola; he later studied at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia with the violist Renzo Sabatini. Sabatini arranged an audition with Yehudi Menuhin, who invited him to play at the Bath International Music Festival in 1968, and involved him in other music projects.

Bianchi taught in Europe and the US, and conducted. He was an authority on Paganini and wrote a book about Paganini's teacher Alessandro Rolla.