His sensitive interpretations and amazing technique have helped to consolidate Andrea Griminelli's career and earn him worldwide recognition, from Grammy, Prix de Paris to honors.

Approaching the flute at the age of ten, he studied with the legendary Jean-Pierre Rampal and Sir James Galway, who called him "the greatest flutist to rise to prominence on the music scene from so many years." While studying with J. P. Rampal at the Paris Conservatory, he won competitions in Stresa and Alessandria. In 1983 and 1984 he won the prestigious Prix de Paris.

His debut to international level took place in 1984 at the age of twenty-five when he was introduced to overseas audiences from Luciano Pavarotti in the memorable concert at Madison Square Gardens in New York and together with whom he undertook an intense collaboration in the following years including unforgettable concerts in London's Hyde Park in 1990, New York's Central Park in 1993, the Eiffel Tower in Paris and Moscow's Red Square.

His career is enriched by major concerts and tours in Europe, Japan, South America, the United States and around the world; he performs in the most prestigious theaters and from concert halls from La Scala in Milan to Carnegie Hall in New York alongside artists such as Pretre, Giulini, Metha, Krivine, Sutherland, Bonynge, Rampal, Rojdestvenski, Levine, Lu-Ja, Ughi, Sado, Semkov, and orchestras such as the Royal Philharmonic, Berlin Symphony, Munchner Rundfunkorchester, London Philharmonia, New York Philharmonic, Rai of Turin, Dallas Symphony, and Los Angeles Philharmonic.

In 1991 the President of the Republic awarded him the honor of Knight while in 2003 he was awarded the honor of Officer of Merit of the Italian Republic.

Performs world premieres of new compositions for flute and orchestra specially written for his instrument from composers including Carlo Boccadoro, Fabrizio Festa, Ennio Morricone, Shigeaki Saegusa.

His artistic activity also includes collaborations with Luciano Pavarotti, Elton John, James Taylor, Bradford Marsalis, and the legendary Ian Anderson leader of Jethro Tull.

His discography includes the Vivaldi and Mercadante flute concertos (Decca) with the English Chamber Orchestra conducted from J.P.Rampal. In 2001 he recorded the album _Andrea Griminelli's Cinema Italiano _where the most famous Italian film scores, rearranged from Bacalov and Morricone, are from him reinterpreted together to Sting, Pavarotti, Lucio Dalla, Deborah Harry and Filippa Giordano.

In 1989 he won a Grammy Award with the CD Live in Modena, Piazza Grande.

In 2005-2006 he concentrated in an intense recording production with Decca label: he recorded theOpera Omnia for flute by W.to.Mozart together with the Camerata Salzburg under the direction of Sir Roger Norrington, a CD with 19th-century Italian music for flute and guitar together to Filomena Moretti, records Beethoven's and Schubert's compositions for flute and piano with Gianluca Cascioli, Rossini's _Quartetti _for wind quartet and W. to. Mozart with the Keller Quartet.

In 2006 he recalled a tour of South America together with Italian guitarist Emanuele Segre in major cities of Chile, Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil and Mozart's concerto for flute and orchestra K313 to Caracas with the "Simón Bolívar" Youth Orchestra under the direction of Maestro Gustavo Dudamel.

In September 2007 he was given the position of President of the Higher Institute of Musical Studies "to. Peri" of Reggio Emilia and in January 2008 that of President of the "Claudio Merulo" Musical Institute of Castelnuovo Monti (R.E.).

He regularly continues his tours in the main halls from concert halls around the world, one recalls the concert at the Hanoi Opera House on the occasion of the concerts for the Hennessy Concert Series; the concert to Petra, concert in honor of Maestro Luciano Pavarotti which was later broadcasted worldwide and together with the Orchestra I Solisti di Mosca conducted from Yuri Bashmet; participated in the closing concert of the World Cup in South Africa in 2010 while later he was in Japan with the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Maestro Naoto Otomo; began to actively collaborating with Andrea Bocelli performing all over the world and participating to memorable concerts including to Naples in the Piazza del Plebiscito, to Rome at the Colosseum, in major cities in South America, the United States and Europe.

Frequently invited to participate as a jury member in major international flute competitions, including the International Rampal Competition to Paris, the Carl Nielsen Competition in Denmark while in 2012 he was on the jury in China at the Beijing International Music Competition BJIMC.

The latest Decca label recording of Vivaldi's Four Seasons, in the flute version from specially edited by him, and the Concertos Op. 10 for flute with I Solisti Filarmonici Italiani, was released to December 2011. A Decca CD release of J.S.Bach's Sonatas for flute and basso continuo is planned to spring 2014 including also the Partita for solo flute and the Trio Sonata for two flutes, recorded together to cello and harpsichord.

He regularly tours both in recitals for flute and piano and as a soloist with orchestra in major cities in India, South America, the United States, Italy, Europe, Southeast Asia and Japan.

After graduating, with highest honors, in organ and harpsichord, he specialized at the Conservatory of The Hague (NL) under the guidance of Ton Koopman. His activity has led him to perform in the most important halls: Parco della Musica - Rome, Sala Verdi - Milan, Hercules saal - Munich (D), Teatro Colon - Buenos Aires, Kioi Hall - Tokyo... for the most important festivals: MITO, Sagra Malatestiana, Festival Pergolesi Spontini, Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Serate Musicali... collaborating both as soloist and accompanist with numerous soloists and orchestras, Orchestra dell'Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Orchestra from camera di Mantova, Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto, I Virtuosi Italiani, L'arte dell'arco, I Barocchisti, etc.

He has recorded numerous CDs for record companies such as Chandos, Tactus, Arts, Decca reported by international critics. He is currently recording the complete music of G. Frescobaldi for the Brilliant label, winning with Volume I the "2009 National Classical Disc Award." Recordings dedicated to the harpsichord music of B. Pasquini (Chandos-Chaconne) and by G.B. Ferrini (Tactus) were winners of the "Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik." He teaches at the "C.Pollini" Conservatory in Padua.

Having graduated in cello with Gianni Chiampan from the Conservatorio C. Pollini in Padua, Francesco Galligioni continued his study of the instrument by taking master classes with Michael Flaksman and Teodora Campagnaro and later with Franco Maggio Ormezowski atAccademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome and the Arturo Toscanini Foundation in Parma. He attended to baroque cello master classes with Walter Vestidello and Gaetano Nasillo and later collaborated with internationally renowned early music experts such as Anner Bylsma, Giuliano Carmignola, Andrea Marcon, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Diego Fasolis, Bob van Asperen, Gustav Leonhardt and Christopher Hogwood.

His passion for early music also led him to study viola from gamba with Paolo Biordi at the Florence Conservatory of Music, where he graduated in 2007.

Francesco Galligioni is a founding member of the Accademia di San Rocco and the Venice Baroque Orchestra, with which he has played regularly as first cello in the most prestigious halls from concert halls, including London's Royal Albert Hall, New York's Carnegie Hall, Vienna's Musikverein, Zurich's Tonhalle, Amsterdam's Concertgebouw, Paris's Théâtre des Champs-Elysées and Venice's Teatro La Fenice. He has also collaborated as first part with the Sonatori della Gioiosa Marca, the Friuli Venezia Giulia G. B. Tiepolo Baroque Orchestra, I Barocchisti, Oman Consort, Arte dell'Arco, Gambe di Legno Consort, I Virtuosi delle Muse and Opera Stravagante. Besides to numerous recordings with the Venice Baroque Orchestra, he has recorded trios with Giuliano Carmignola and Lutz Kirchhof and sonatas with Anner Bylsma, among others.

He has taught at the Istituto Musicale G. F. Malipiero in Padua, the Conservatorio T. Schipa in Lecce, the Conservatorio to. Buzzolla of Adria (Rovigo) and at the F. Cilea Conservatory of Reggio Calabria. Currently Francesco Galligioni is a professor at the Conservatorio N. Paganini in Genoa. In 2004 he held master classes to Sao Paulo, Brazil, and in the summer of 2007 at the Ludwigsburger Akademie. To his most deserving students interested in learning performance practice on original instruments he offers the opportunity to gain experience by including them in the concert and recording activities of the Venice Baroque Orchestra. Francesco Galligioni plays a 1740 Paolo Antonio Testore cello and an original early 18th-century viola from gamba.