He has founded Bernardi Music Group, Shipley Arts Festival, Stradivarius Piano Trio, String Academy.
The Shipley Arts Festival has commissioned new works, including Great Hill's by Cecilia McDowall, The Margraves Dream by Malcolm Singer and To Notice Such Things by the late Jon Lord (formerly of Deep Purple).
He has for many years collaborated with the Yehudi Menuhin School, with whom he closed the 2019 Shipley Festival with Malcolm Singer's cantata Dragons.
He has performed as guest concertmaster for Manchester Camerata, the Oporto Chamber Orchestra, and leading Bernardi Music Group.
Bernardi was educated at The Skinners' School, Tunbridge Wells, Leeds University Bretton Hall and Trinity College of Music, where he led all the orchestras as a postgraduate scholar.