Grand-nephew of the legendary Argentinean tango composer, pianist and bandleader Rodolfo “Manos Brujas” Biaggi (1906-1969), Edino Biaggi started studying music theory and woodwinds performance when he was eight years old at the Silvio Agostini Music School in Cruz Alta, Córdoba, Argentina. Edino performed his first concert tour when he was nine, under conductor Maestro Héctor Gatti.
After being a pupil of oboist Luis Giavón (Rosario Symphony Orchestra) for nine years, Edino began studying with Rubén Albornóz (Principal oboe, Colón Symphony Orchestra, Buenos Aires) in the year 1999.During the aforementioned years, Mr. Biaggi was a member of several orchestras and served as principal oboe in the Rosario Youth Symphony Orchestra, Rosario Symphony Orchestra, Rosario Contemporary Ensemble, and the Rosario Chamber Orchestra. Additionally, he was also invited to perform as principal oboe with the MERCOSUR Symphony Orchestra, South America’s largest youth symphony orchestra.
Edino has performed in many concert halls in his native country, such as El Círculo Theatre, Labardén Hall, Castagnino Theatre, Biblioteca Argentina Rosario, La Comedia Theatre, Santa Fe Municipal Theatre, Law School of Buenos Aires, Teatro San Martin Buenos Aires, Centro Cultural Recoleta, and the famed Colón Theatre in Buenos Aires. During his teenage years, Mr. Biaggi was invited to perform as a soloist in Ushuaia’s City Hall, the southernmost city hall in the world. Edino has also been featured as a soloist throughout Latin and North America, Asia and Europe. He is been broadcasted on several national and international radio stations, such as Radio Clásica Rosario 90.7, LRA 14 Santa Fe, Clásica FM96.7 Córdoba, Nacional Clásica FM 96.7 Buenos Aires, 98.7WFMT Chicago’s Classical Radio Station, and WQXR 105.9 FM New York. Edino has performed live, and also recorded on several domestic and international TV channels: Channel 3 and Channel 5 Argentina, Channel 19 Chicago, the worldwide satellite TV stations 3ABN and LLBN (USA).
In 2001, Edino was accepted at Roosevelt University, Chicago, where he completed his Bachelor’s degree in Oboe Performance. At the aforesaid institution, Edino won a full scholarship and was a pupil of oboist Alex Klein (former principal oboe, Chicago Symphony Orchestra). While residing in Chicago, Edino performed in almost every major venue of the area, such as the Rudolph Ganz Memorial Hall, Harris Theatre, Governor’s State University Concert Hall, Harold Washington Library, the Chicago Auditorium Theatre, and the Chicago Symphony Hall.
Mr. Biaggi has taken master classes with Maestros Làszlo Hadady (Paris Superior Music Conservatory), Antoine Lazènec (Lyon Music Conservatory), David Walter (Paris Superior Music Conservatory), Grover Schiltz (former English horn, Chicago Symphony Orchestra), James Caldwell (Oberlin Conservatory), Zhu Dun (Beijing Central Conservatory of Music), Ray Still (Principal oboe of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for 40 years), Washington Barella (Principal oboe, SWR Südwestrundfunk Symphony Orchestra).In 2008 Edino finished his Master’s Degree in Oboe Performance at Queens College, New York, and in 2011 he finished his Artist Diploma Certificate, both degrees under the tutelage of Maestro Humbert Lucarelli. While at Queens College, Mr. Biaggi was a member of the Goden Key International Honour Society, and was awarded the Dorothy and Morris Grosser Woodwind Award (2008), the Ronald Roseman Woodwind Award (2009 and 2010), the Adele Lerner Chamber Music Prize (2011), and the Discimus ut Serviamus Award (2011). Until his recent relocation to California, Mr. Biaggi was an Adjunct Oboe Instructor at Queens College C.U.N.Y. and Brooklyn College, C.U.N.Y., New York.
Mr. Biaggi has developed an innovative reed making technique which speeds up the reed-making process dramatically, allowing him to hand-make an astonishing average of 5,000 professional oboe reeds per year. Edino is a professional oboe reed provider of important double-reed supply stores in the USA, such as Nielsen Woodwinds in Illinois, Charles Music in New Hampshire, Forrests Music in California, Hodge Products Inc. in Virginia, and Hickey’s Music Center in New York.