Born in Milan in 1999, Federico Gad Crema started his piano studies at the age of nine.
Graduated in 2016 from the G. Verdi Conservatory of Music in Milan with the highest score and distinctions, 110 cum laude, Mr. Crema continued his studies at the prestigious Colburn Conservatory of Music in Los Angeles and he is now attending a Master’s degree at the Conservatory of Music in Milan.

Winner of numerous prestigious national and international piano competitions in Italy, France, Germany, Greece and USA, he’s recently been awarded 1st Prize and special prize at the prestigious “CIAD International Piano Competition 2018”, 3rd Prize and special prize at the “Casagrande International Piano Competition 2019” and 2nd Prize, Best Contemporary Piece Award and Audience Award at the “OKIPC Olga Kern International Piano Competition 2019”.

He performed at the world famous Carnegie Hall and Steinway Hall in New York, and he also performed important solo recitals in Italy, France, Germany, Japan, Greece, Switzerland, Belgium and USA. As a soloist he performed with the Orchestra dell’Accademia del Teatro alla Scala, the Neojiba Orchestra, the Symphonic Orchestra of Cannes, the “UNIMI” Orchestra of Milan, the “OSCoM” Symphonic Orchestra of Milan, the Orchestra Sinfonica Abruzzese, the New Mexico Philharmonic Orchestra, the Philharmonic Orchestra of Bacau and the Chapelle Musicale Orchestra of Tournai, among many others.

In 2017 he started an important collaboration with the piano star Jean-Yves Thibaudet performing at the Wallis Annenberg Center of Performing Arts in Los Angeles, in 2018 he made his solo debut at Teatro alla Scala in Milan playing Mozart Piano Concerto n.23 K488 and in 2020 he made his solo debut at Sala Verdi playing Beethoven Concerto n.3 op.37, conducted by Maestro Roberto Abbado.