Alessio Allegrini, Founder and Musical Director of the Human Rights Orchestra; Conductor, Horn Player.

Alessio Allegrini has performed as solo or principal horn with virtually all of the world’s leading conductors, including Claudio Abbado, Simon Rattle, Mariss Jansons, Riccardo Muti, Myung-Whun Chung, Bernard Haitink, and Daniel Barenboim.

Winner of prizes in both the Prague Spring International Competition and the Munich International Competition, Mr. Allegrini held first chair in the Orchestra of La Scala for eight years, and subsequently served as guest principal horn of the Berlin Philharmonic for an entire season, including their residency at the Salzburg Festival, numerous recordings and DVDs. Since 2004, he has been the principal horn soloist with the Orchestra of the Academy of Santa Cecilia in Rome.

At the invitation of Claudio Abbado, Mr. Allegrini serves as principal horn of the Mozart Orchestra and as solo first horn of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra. Highlights of past seasons include a European tour as solo horn in Mahler’s Fifth Symphony with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra under Mariss Jansons; Strauss Horn Concerto No. 2 with La Scala under Riccardo Muti; and Mozart concertos under Claudio Abbado. A CD of Mozart’s four horn concertos recorded live with Mr. Allegrini as soloist with Mr. Abbado will soon be released by Deutsche Grammophon.

Mr. Allegrini is an International Visiting Professor at the Royal Academy in London and holds masterclasses in Europe, South America and Japan.