Andrea Friggi was born in 1979 in Milano where he obtained his first doctorate in 2003 in philology (Greek Palaeography) from the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore under Carlo Maria Mazzucchi. He also obtained a PhD in Byzantine Philology from the University of Turin in 2007 under the guidance of Enrico V. Maltese. He is active as a scholar and has published a number of articles.

He has studied organ, harpsichord, and continuo. His teachers include Edoardo Bellotti and Stefano Demicheli. He has also attended master classes with René Clemencic and Luigi F. Tagliavini. In 2007 he moved to the Netherlands to study with Menno van Delft at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam where he graduated in 2011. After completing his BA, he continued his studies in Amsterdam with Bob van Asperen and Richard Egarr and obtained a master's degree in basso continuo in 2013 with Thérèse de Goede.

He has performed as a soloist, conductor, and continuo player at venues across Europe and North America with various ensembles, including Ensemble Odyssee, Stile Galante, Nederlandse Bachvereniging, Concerto Köln and many others. He has recorded several CDs for Fuga Libera, Pan Classics, Glossa, Passacaille, and Glaux. He has worked with singers such as Ann Hallenberg, Max Emanuel Cencic, Bejun Mehta and as an assistant to conductors such as Riccardo Minasi in several opera productions.

 

In 2010 he founded his own group, Ensemble Odyssee, together with recorder player Anna Stegmann with whom he performs regularly. With his ensemble he won the third prize in the Van Wassenaer Competition in 2011. In the same year he was awarded the Huygens Scholarship from the Dutch government.

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Since October 2010 he has taught musical philology at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam.