Francesco Fiore, born in Rome, completed his studies at the Conservatory Santa Cecilia of Rome, Italy, having had as teachers Maestro Lina Lama and Maestro Massimo Paris. He subsequently improved his skills with Maestro Bruno Giuranna at the foundation W. Stauffer of Cremona, Italy. He has won many prizes and established himself as one of the most interesting musicians of the current generation. He soon undertook an intense concert activity, being a regular guest of the most prestigious Associations and Italian Festivals: Rome, Accademia Nazionale di S. Cecilia, University Institution of the Concerts, Accademia Filarmonica; Milan, Società del Quartetto, Serate Musicali; Turin, Unione Musicale; Accademia Chigiana of Siena; Spoleto, Festival dei Due Mondi; Settimane Musicali of Stresa; Bologna, Musica Insieme; Florence, Venice, Verona, Vicenza, Palermo, Padova and Perugia, Amici della Musica; G.O.G. of Genoa; Vicenza and Vercelli, la Società del Quartetto; Festival delle Nazioni of Città di Castello; Vicenza, Settimana Musicale of the Teatro Olimpico; Naples, Settimane Internazionali of Villa Pignatelli, Teatro S. Carlo and Associazione Scarlatti; Festival Pontino of Sermoneta; Estate Musicale sul Garda; Bemus of Belgrade. For the chamber music activity he has collaborated with artists like Salvatore Accardo, Uto Ughi, Boris Belkin (with whom he has performed many times the "Sinfonia Concertante" of W. A. Mozart), Pierre Amoyal, Renata Scotto, Bruno Canino, Alfons Kontarskj, Michele Campanella, Rocco Filippini, Alain Meunier, Bruno Giuranna, Franco Petracchi, Gabriele Pieranunzi, Rainer Kussmaul, Pavel Vernikov, David Lively. He has recorded many CDs for RCA, ASV, FONIT Cetra, FONÉ and MUSIKSTRASSE. For the last he has performed the first world recording of the quartet of Mercadante for soloist viola and strings; he also performed the first modern execution of this quartet at the Teatro S. Carlo of Naples. The magazine Amadeus will publish a CD containing all the Quartets with piano by G. Faurè on February 2006. The same quartets will be also performed at the Salle Gaveau at Paris. He has recently participated to the video recording of two Quartets of L. Boccherini together with the Maestro Salvatore Accardo, playing the famous viola Stradivari kept at the Royal Palace of Madrid. The program, realized by the NHK of Tokyo, was devoted to the unique string quartet by Stradivari existing throughout the world. From 1991 he has been first viola of the Orchestra of the Teatro dell’Opera of Rome; he has also played as first viola with the Orchestra Filarmonica of the Teatro alla Scala of Milan, the National RAI Orchestra, the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, the National RAI Orchestra, and, invited by Salvatore Accardo, with the Orchestra Italiana da Camera. He teaches at the Conservatory Santa Cecilia of Rome within the framework of the Biennial Superior Courses. He plays a viola of Joseph Hill, London 1774, and a viola d’amore of Raffaele Fiorini, Bologna 1894.