Daniele Richiedei’s musical journey began in childhood, playing violin in the traditional folk ensemble of his hometown, Bagolino (Italy). As a composer and improviser, he explores the boundaries between folk traditions, early music, jazz, and today’s academic scene. This artistic research is reflected in his solo album Northern Lights (aSimpleLunch, 2018), in the collective Fedra (Parco della Musica Records, 2024), and in the octet Take Off (2015–present).

He is regularly engaged in high-level chamber, contemporary, jazz, and folk projects with renowned musicians and ensembles. As a chamber musician, he is a member of the Ensemble del Teatro Grande di Brescia, a piano quintet founded in 2012 by Sandro Laffranchini (principal cellist of Teatro alla Scala). Since then, the ensemble has performed annually, presenting a wide repertoire and collaborating with distinguished guests such as Myung-Whun Chung, with whom they performed Brahms’s Piano Quintet in 2018. In 2020, they recorded Schumann’s Piano Quintet for the Italian national broadcaster Sky Classica HD.

He also founded Ensemble AltriArchi, ranging from string quartet to string orchestra and bridging classical, contemporary, world, and popular music. As a chamber and contemporary music player, he is frequently invited to perform at major festivals in Italy, including Cantiere Internazionale d’Arte di Montepulciano, Sentieri Selvaggi Crossroads, Festival dei Due Mondi di Spoleto, and Trame Sonore. He also enjoys a freelance career with leading chamber orchestras such as the Orchestra da Camera di Mantova.

Richiedei holds master’s degrees in both Jazz Violin and Classical Violin (cum laude in both disciplines) and has attended numerous masterclasses and advanced courses in Italy and abroad, including Siena Jazz (2010), Nuoro Jazz (2011), and the Centre de Musiques Didier Lockwood (Paris, France). He has studied with internationally acclaimed artists such as the Tokyo String Quartet, Massimo Quarta, Stefano Montanari, Stefano Battaglia, Barry Harris, Michael Blake, Sandro Gibellini, and Pietro Tonolo, and at the Hochschule für Musik Detmold (Germany) under Professor Marco Rizzi.

He has performed throughout Europe, as well as in India, Morocco, Oman, and the U.S.A., sharing the stage with musicians such as Marc Ribot, Fausto Beccalossi, Glauco Venier, Emanuele Maniscalco, Peo Alfonsi, Konstantin Bogino, Michael Blake, Mauro Ottolini, Maria Faust, Fulvio Sigurtà, Mary Halvorson, Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Laura Marzadori, Mirco Ghirardini, Kleidi Sahatchi, Salvatore Quaranta, and Paolo Bonomini, among others.

He regularly collaborates with Sentieri Selvaggi, one of Italy’s leading contemporary music ensembles directed by Carlo Boccadoro, performing in formats ranging from violin–piano duo to string quartet and larger chamber groups. In 2018, he curated the book Storie da Suonatori (LiberEdizioni), a study of the folk fiddle tradition of his hometown, Bagolino (Valle del Caffaro).

Since 2019, he has been Artistic Director of San Rocco in Musica, a summer festival dedicated to boundless musical exploration, where he has devised seven editions and more than 40 concerts featuring international guests. He currently teaches Jazz Violin at the Conservatorio di Brescia and the Conservatorio di Bologna, and gives regular masterclasses and workshops in jazz violin and improvisation.

He also frequently collaborates with Italian actors and stage directors, composing and performing music for theater productions and readings. Among others, he has worked with Federica Fracassi, Renzo Martinelli, Valeria Perdonò, Woody Neri, Luca Micheletti, Luciano Bertoli, Giuseppina Turra, Fabio Maccarinelli, and Debora Schillaci.