Called a "thoughtful interpreter of historically informed early music" by Stephen Brookes in The Washington Post, Andrew Arceci has varied careers as performer, arranger/composer, conductor/director, and scholar.

During the 2025-2026 concert season, Mr. Arceci celebrates the 10th anniversary of the Winchendon Music Festival, which he founded in 2016 in memory of his father, Robert J. Arceci, a pediatric oncologist with a passion for the arts. Dubbed “a world-class event in the small north Worcester County town” by Richard Duckett in the Telegram & Gazette, the performances feature an array of international artists from a variety of genres, including classical, folk, jazz, historical performance, and world music. Highlights of the Winchendon Festival season this year included performances by pianist John Arcaro & band, cellist, Ismar Gomes & pianist, Wan-Chi Su, singer-songwriter Chris Moyse, and the Worcester Jazz Orchestra.

As a founding member of the folk collective Floyds Row, he and the ensemble will tour the East Coast this September and October, performing seven concerts in Massachusetts, New Jersey, New Hampshire, and Maine.

This past summer, Mr. Arceci was invited to tour music centers in Vietnam and Japan, notably at the Auftdart Academy of Music & Performing Arts and Vibe Academy of Music & Cinema. Future cultural exchanges are planned in Cambodia and Singapore as well.

Mr. Arceci is also known for his work as a composer/arranger and scholar. In the United Kingdom, he has appeared with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Cöthen Baroque, and Oxford Baroque. In the United States he has collaborated with the Boston Camerata, Arcadia Players, Harmonious Blacksmith, Washington Bach Concert, Tempesta di Mare – Philadelphia Baroque Orchestra, Handel Choir of Baltimore, and Musica Sequenza. As viol soloist with orchestra, Mr. Arceci has performed historical and/or contemporary works with the National Philharmonic, L’Académie, Les Bostonades, Cambridge Concentus, and the New Juilliard Ensemble.

During the 2019-2020 academic year, Mr. Arceci was a Visiting Fellow at Harvard University’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies. Mr. Arceci has taught at several institutions, including Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania, Wellesley College (Director, Collegium Musicum), and Worcester State University. Additionally, he has given lectures, masterclasses, and/or workshops at Illinois Wesleyan University, the International Baroque Institute at Longy (Bard College), the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, Edinburgh, the Narnia Arts Academy (Italy), Institutum Romanum Finlandiae (Italy), Taipei National University of the Arts (Taiwan), and Burapha University (Thailand).

Mr. Arceci studied double bass, viola da gamba, and art history at Peabody Conservatory – Johns Hopkins University and went on to study early music at The Juilliard School and at Magdalen College in Oxford.