A native Charlottean, artistic administrator and double bassist Peter Ferretti enjoys a varied career spanning multiple continents, industries, and genres.

For the past 7 years, Ferretti has managed the orchestral operations for Teatro Nuovo, a historically-informed opera company based in New York City. Ferretti began his tenure with the company as orchestra manager, and currently serves as the institution’s Director of Orchestra Operations as well as its principal double bass. Considered one of the leading institutions in the United States focused on romantic-era performance practice, the orchestra of Teatro Nuovo has been hailed by the New York Times as “astonishing,” by The New Yorker’s Alex Ross as having played “fiercely and flavorfully,” and by Opera Wire as “as near flawless as can be.” Ferretti has also served as the Executive Director of watermark: a period instrument ensemble, an ensemble dedicated to bringing the repertoire of the pre-romantic era to audiences traditionally underserved by historically informed performance practice. Ferretti currently serves the Salisbury Symphony Orchestra as its Executive Director.

A double bassist by training, Ferretti has played with many of the world’s leading chamber orchestras and historically informed ensembles. Since 2019, Ferretti has worked regularly with Jordi Savall and Le Concert des Nations, appearing on the orchestra’s acclaimed recordings of the symphonies of Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Schubert, Schumann, Bruckner, and others. Ferretti is also a regular guest of the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, with whom he has also toured and recorded extensively, appearing most recently on the orchestra’s recordings of Haydn and Mozart. Elsewhere in Europe, Ferretti’s principal bass commitments include performances with Les Musiciens du Louvre, Concerto Köln, Le Cercle d l’Harmonie, Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, Eroica Berlin and regularly appears as a substitute with Ensemble Resonanz. In the United States, he can regularly be seen performing with the Handel + Haydn Society and Boston Baroque.

Ferretti holds a B.M. from New England Conservatory, where he studied with Don Palma, an M.M. in historical bass from The Juilliard School, where he studied the various historical bass instruments with Rob Nairn and G-violone with Heather Miller Lardin, and an M.A. in International Relations from Utrecht University, an institution from which he graduated cum laude, and has worked for the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik in Berlin, working as a research intern in the Americas Research Division.