Alma Tedde was born in 1996 into a Sardinian-Swiss family of musicians. She received her first cello lessons at the age of five, first at the Bern Conservatory and then at the Basel Music Academy. Chamber music and orchestral projects have taken her to many countries in Europe, as well as Russia, South Africa and South America.
From April 2015 to winter 2019, she completed her Bachelor’s degree with Prof. Jean-Guihen Queyras at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg im Breisgau (D).
She then continued to study at the Master’s degree with Prof. Jean-Guihen Queyras and the Master of Historical Interpretation with Baroque Cello with Christoph Dangel until summer 2020.
From September 2020 she studied at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam with Prof. Pieter Wispelwey, where she graduated with honors in summer 2022.
Alma has been a member of the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie and the Swiss Youth Symphony Orchestra as first Cello.
She currently plays as an adjunct in the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen under the direction of Paavo Järvi and is co-founder and member of the chamber orchestra Arte Frizzante, which works collectively without a musical director. Alma’s passion is chamber music. The exploration of music as a means of interpersonal communication is an important part of her musical work.
In addition to numerous chamber music projects with both modern cello and baroque cello, Alma has been a member of the Nerida Quartet since 2018, with whom she graduated with honors in the summer of 2023 from a master’s program in chamber music at the Bern Conservatory of Music with Prof. Patrick Jüdt.
Several awards have led the quartet to participate in major chamber music festivals in Switzerland, Italy, Germany, France and throughout Europe, and they were admitted to the European Chamber Music Academy (ECMA) in 2021.