Born in 1996 Diego Ceretta graduated with honor in violin at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Milan with Fulvio Luciani, in the same conservatory he also studied composition graduating at the age of 21 in Conducting with Daniele Agiman. Then he specialized at the Italian Conducting Academy with Gilberto Serembe and at the Accademia Chigiana in Siena attending masterclass in conducting under the guidance of Luciano Acocella and Daniele Gatti in 2018, 2019 and 2020.
Finalist at the prestigious Premio Cantelli he will make his debut at the Rossini Festival in Wildbad.
Diego Ceretta made his debut in 2016 with the Orchestra Filarmonica Italiana, in 2017 he conducted for the first time the Orchestra Filarmonica in Sanremo, beginning an important collaboration with the orchestra.
Further engagements have included: the debut at the Carnegie Hall in New York conducting a world premiere by Girolamo Deraco; series of concerts at the Conservatory in Milan, with the Orchestra Sinfonica Città di Grosseto in Lucca and Grosseto, with the Orchestra Sinfonica di Sanremo on tour in Ventimiglia, Ovada, Orbassano, Sarzana; the opening concert season at the Teatro Civico in Tortona; Ruggero Laganà's PourQue-neau…? at the Casinò Opera House in Sanremo, revided at the Auditorium Mozart in Ivrea, in Milan (Sala Verdi) with Angela Finocchiaro where he also conducted Federico Ghedini's Billy Budd with special guest Alessandro Quasimodo.
More recently he conducted: concerts at the Palazzina Liberty in Milan in the frame of Milano Classica season and at the MiTo 2019; Alberto Cara's La notte di Natale in Savona and in Modena; recent his debut with the Orchestra di Padova and del Veneto.

In September he was the only Italian finalist in the Premio Cantelli and was awarded the City Prize as well as commitments at the Rossini Festival in Bad Wildbad. Daniele Gatti's assistant at the Teatro dell'Opera in Rome for the world premiere of Giorgio Battistelli's opera Julius Caesar, Diego Ceretta was then engaged in a series of symphonic concerts at the Teatro Lirico in Cagliari, in Pesaro with the Orchestra Sinfonica G. Rossini and in Bozen for a Cd recording with the Orchestra Haydn (music by Rossini, Respighi and Mendelssohn). He also collaborated with the Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra for the performance of Mahler's Symphony No. 2 with Fabio Luisi.
His upcoming engagements include: La Sonnambula in Cagliari; Il Matrimonio Segreto in Ancona; Macbeth for the Rete Lirica delle Marche in Ascoli Piceno, Fano and Fermo; the debut at the Hungarian State Opera in Budapest. He will also perform with the Haydn Orchestra of Bolzano and Trento as part of the Festival of Sacred Music, with the Krakow Philharmonic in Krakow and at the Rossini Festival in Bad Wildbad, as well as debuts in the seasons of the ORT-Orchestra della Toscana and LaToscanini in Parma.

  May 2022