Biography

After being awarded an MPhil at the Centre for Music and Science (University of Cambridge), Gabriele Cecchetti joined the Digital and Cognitive Musicology Lab (EPFL) as a doctoral assistant in 2019. In Rome, his hometown, he previously graduated in physics (Università ‘La Sapienza’) and as a cellist (Conservatorio ‘S. Cecilia’). His research interests lie on a spectrum spanning from music analysis and performance to the mathematical and theoretical modelling of the cognitive underpinnings of the experience of music. For his master’s project, he focused on a small-scale information-theoretic model of tonal affinity based on psychoacoustic and neuroscientific insight. Within the ERC-funded project ‘Principles of Musical Structure Building’ he will engage with matching theoretical and computational approaches with empirical cognitive and psychological frameworks. 

He is also an experienced musician with a particular devotion to chamber music, and has been extensively involved in music teaching over several years of collaboration with the educational programs of the National Academy ‘S. Cecilia’ in Rome.