Filidei graduated from the Conservatorio Luigi Cherubini in Florence, where he won unanimously the first prizes in organ playing and music composition.
He followed advanced courses of Salvatore Sciarrino, Giacomo Manzoni, Sylvano Bussotti, and studied further with Jean Guillou in Zürich.
[1] He performs in concert, playing works by Franz Liszt, César Franck, as well as his own compositions and much contemporary music for organ and piano, in Italy and abroad.
[1] He received the Musikpreis from the city of Salzburg, was composer in residence at the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart in 2006 and was invited to the Casa de Velázquez in Madrid in 2007.
[8] In 2023 Teatro alla Scala and the Opéra de Paris jointly commissioned Filidei to create a new opera Il Nome Della Rosa based on the book by Umberto Eco.