1982-91

1984-86

Born in Palermo on 24/06/1962

Receives diplomas in Piano, Composition, and Orchestra Conducting with Maestros C.A. Antonelli, F. Telli and F. M. Caramazza

Takes specialization courses in Italy (Assisi, Terminillo) and abroad (Russia, Hungary, Switzerland) for composition and orchestra conducting

Studies Italian opera music traditions with Maestro E. Campogalliani

(teacher of L. Pavarotti and M. Freni)

1991-92

1995

1990-98

1999

since 1999

Assistant to Maestro Kukushkin in St. Petersburg.

Invited by Hofstra University (New York) to hold a course on Italian opera traditions and the teaching of orchestra conducting.

Teacher at the Conservatories of Cagliari, Turin, Trapani and Cuneo for the subjects “Orchestral Practice” and “Theory, Solfeggio and Musical Dictation”.

Places 1st in the national competition for Theory and Solfeggio teaching chairs in Italian conservatories.

Teacher holding the Theory, Solfeggio and Musical Dictation chair at the “L. Refice” Conservatory in Frosinone

since 1983

1984      

1996

Composer of various chamber music works and background music for theatre companies, films, and a musical comedy.

Composer of the arrangement as a piano duet of M. Mussorgsky’s “Night on Bald Mountain”, performed several times in various concert halls, and which became a permanent part of the repertoire of various piano duos.

Composer of the one-act opera “La prima Alba”, winner of the competition called by the Teatro Regio of Turin for works composed for the Lower Secondary School. The opera was then performed at the Piccolo Regio of Turin during the 1995-96 season and in various Italian theatres and conservatories.

1992-96

1995

1995-96

Conducts film music for RAI, Canale5, and Swiss and German television.
 

Participates in the commemoration of F. Fellini, on Via Veneto, conducting musical pieces by Nino Rota.
 

Pianist accompanying opera singers for the RAI program “Unomattina Estate”.

since 1988

since 1988

1990-91

1990

1991

since 1997

1998

2002-2003

As the conductor of various musical formations, holds concerts of symphonic and opera music in numerous Italian cities (Rome, Bari, Genoa, Cagliari, Savona,Grosseto, Imperia, etc…) and abroad (Russia, France, Hungary, Romania, Switzerland, USA, Austria).

Performs numerous Italian 18th-century works, as well as the repertoire of great operas by Mozart, Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti, Verdi, Puccini, Mascagni, and Leoncavallo.

Founds and conducts the MAVRA Orchestra of Genoa, with which he wins 1st Prize in the International Competition of Stresa.

Performs, with the MAVRA Choir of Rome at the Teatro Olimpico, within the framework of the cultural events of the World Soccer Cup Championships in Rome, C. Orff’s “Carmina Burana”, to the acclaim of critics and audiences alike.

A guest at the Festival of Two Worlds in Spoleto, conducts the world premiere performance of the opera “Green Planet” by F. Amendola, also recorded on a CD published by Bongiovanni.

The long-term collaboration with important symphony orchestras of Eastern Europe leads him to conduct the orchestras of Oradea, Satu-Mare, Bacau, Craiova, Cluj-Napoca (Romania), the Moldavian Radio-Television, and the Philharmonic of Izhevsk (Russia), both during their tours in Italy and in their homelands, receiving an enthusiastic reception everywhere.

Goes on a theatre tour conducting I. Stravinsky’s “L’Histoire du soldat” and W. Walton’s “Façade”, with the soloists of the Teatro Carlo Felice of Genoa.

Conducts the world premiere of the opera "Il Miracolo del Corporale" by A. Vitalini, performed  in its complete version, in Savona, reproposed in the Abbay of Casamari (Frosinone) and in the Sinopoli Hall of the Auditorium of Rome, with the Regional Orchestra of Lazio, broadcast by Italy's RADIO3 and by Vatican Radio.