Federico Ceppetelli was born in Milan in 1993 and received his first violin lesson at the age of four at the Suzuki Music School in Milan.
In 2008 he joined the class of Olexander Semchuk at the ‘Accademia di alto Perfezionamento’ in Imola. He completed his bachelor’s degree with highest distinction at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Milan in October 2015. He also studied with Ilya Grubert at the Academy of Santa Cecilia in Portogruaro and with the Trio di Parma at the International Chamber Music Academy in Duino. In 2016 Federico began studying for a master’s degree with Prof. Friedemann Wezel at the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Hochschule of Music and Theatre in Leipzig, graduating cum laude in 2019. Since 2019 he has lived in Karlsruhe. He began studying with Prof. Laurent Albrecht Breuninger in the Contemporary Music Master’s programme, which he completed cum laude in January 2022 and was accepted to the Solistenexamen in 2021.
He was selected for the Klangspuren Schwaz International Ensemble Modern Academy and the International Concert Weeks in Goslar.
Federico’s active concert life has taken him to the Grafenegg Festival, the Lucerne Festival and the IMPULS-Festival, among others. He was concertmaster of the new music ensemble of the Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe at the 2019 ZeitGenuss Festival and has been a soloist and ensemble member in concerts conducted by Enno Poppe, Peter Eötvös and Peter Tilling.
Furthermore he has played in many Ensembles such as Ensemble Modern and Risonanze Erranti and worked with composers such as Johannes Kreidler, Márton Illés, Heinz Holliger, Rebecca Saunders, Jörg Widmann, Wolfgang Rihm and many others.
From 2014 to 2016 he was a member of the baroque ensemble Armoniosa, with which he recorded the complete ›Stravaganza‹ by Antonio Vivaldi under the baton of Reinhard Goebel for the MDG label.
He held scholarships from the Musikfonds, Deutceh Musikrat, DAAD, the Heinrich Hertz Society and the Ernst Göhner Stiftung and was a substitute in the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra.
He was a member of the International Ensemble Modern Academy for the academic year 2021/2022.
From 2022 he works as a violin of the Frankfurt based Fabrik Quartet.