Bio (short)
Always passionate about music and technology, Federico Pepe today likes to simply describe himself as a music technology expert.
His academic path and personal artistic research have led him, over the years, to explore every possible connection between these two disciplines.
Since 2021 he has been working at Ableton as Ableton Brand Manager for Italy, managing projects, relationships, and activities on behalf of the company in the Italian market.
Before embarking on this new chapter, he built over 10 years of experience in education, collaborating — among others — with the University of Udine, ALOUD College in Verona, and the University of Rome Tor Vergata. Despite his role at Ableton, he continues to teach courses, workshops, and give talks on a regular basis.
As a freelancer he has supported (and continues to support) many artists in their studio and live productions.
Drawing on all the experience accumulated over the years, in 2025 he co-founded Frequenze with Riccardo Marcucci (Ableton Product Specialist), an Ableton Certified Training Center offering online courses covering everything related to Ableton products and music production in general.
The desire to help people achieve their goals is what drives everything he does. He loves learning new things, tackling new challenges, and sharing what he has learned over the years in the simplest and most accessible way possible.
Bio (long)
Federico Pepe is a music technology expert, educator, and creative coder. His deep passion for music and technology has led him, in his personal and artistic research, to explore every possible connection between these two disciplines.
In 2012 he obtained a Bachelor of Arts in Contemporary Popular Music from Northumbria University in Newcastle Upon Tyne.
From 2017 to 2020 he was a contract lecturer at the University of Udine, where he taught Visual Languages for Complex Systems for the Master’s Degree in Multimedia Communication and Information Technologies.
In 2017 he founded the non-profit association Codice Inutile — a project that concluded in 2022 — whose mission was to spread creative coding culture in Italy. Over the years he taught programming to a great number of children, teenagers, and adults through courses and workshops using Processing.
From 2016 to 2018 he collaborated with the University of Rome Tor Vergata within the Master in Sonic Arts training courses, teaching Ableton Live software in the Electronic Music Production track.
Since 2008 he has been head of the technology department at ALOUD Verona (formerly CSM College), where he teaches numerous courses. From 2012 to 2020 he was course leader of the BTEC Extended Diploma in Music Technology, certified by Pearson International.
Between 2013 and 2019 he was co-organiser of TEDxVerona and responsible for the technical management of the event.
In 2018 he obtained his Ableton Certified Trainer certification and is the organiser of the Ableton User Group Verona.
Since 2021 he has been working at Ableton as Ableton Brand Manager for Italy, managing projects, relationships, and activities on behalf of the company in the Italian market.
In March 2025 he gave a workshop and lecture titled “Processing and Generative Design for Publishing” at ISIA Urbino.
In 2025 he co-founded Frequenze: an Ableton Certified Training Center offering online courses on everything related to Ableton products and music production in general.
Musicians have to play the instruments that best reflect the times we’re in, play the technology that will give you what you want to hear. All these purists are walking around talking about how electrical instruments will ruin music. Bad music is what will ruin music, not the instruments the musicians choose to play. I don’t see nothing wrong with electrical instrumens as long as you get great musicians who will play them right – Miles Davis