Federico Teti studied Piano, Choral Conducting, Organ and Composition in Rome at the Santa Cecilia Conservatory of Music where he graduated with the highest honors. He won the First Prize of the Competition for Young Organists “Rome 1981” and his performance given at the “Prize Winners’ Concert” was broadcasted on Italian National Radio (RAI). Since then, Mr. Teti has given solo recitals in his native Italy, the United States and Japan, and participated in Music Festivals and Competitions in Italy, France, Denmark, England, Scotland and Lithuania. Among his teachers and coaches are Daniel Roth, Ewald Kooiman, Giancarlo Parodi, Hedda Vignanelli Illy, Giorgio Carnini, Klemens Schnorr and Peter Westerbrink. In 1994 he was awarded a scholarship to the “Accademia Musicale Chigiana” of Siena, Italy. Later that same year, he won a European Community Scholarship to study at the Academy of Italian Organ Music of Pistoia, Italy.
From 1995 through 1997, Mr. Teti attended the Juilliard School in New York City, where he completed advanced studies in Organ Performance under the direction of Dr. John Weaver and pursued his conducting studies with Judith Clurman, Miguel Harth-Bedoya, Eduardo Browne and Isaac Karabtchevsky. While at Juilliard, he also studied Harpsichord with Lionel Party and Improvisation with Dr. Gerre Hancock. He made his Lincoln Center debut playing the Theodore Kuhn tracker organ in Alice Tully Hall and in 1999 made his conducting debut at Juilliard Paul Hall, Lincoln Center, conducting the Chopin Piano Concerto No.1. In 2002 Mr. Teti conducted in Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center, the Cantata for solos, choir and orchestra “The Children’s Requiem” by Judith Fleisher, and from 2003 until 2005 was the conductor of the School for Strings Orchestra in New York. He has performed, among other venues, at the Cathedral of St. Patrick and at Saint Thomas Church in New York City and has given recitals in Japan at the Toyota City Concert Hall, at the Toyota Municipal Museum of Art and in Nagoya.
Mr. Teti is currently living in New York City and he serves as Director of Music at Ascension Lutheran Church in Franklin Square, New York.