Graduated in Clarinet from the E.R. Duni Conservatory in Matera, in Band Instrumentation from the Monopoli Conservatory, in Composition from the A. Pedrollo Conservatory in Vicenza, and in Music Education from the G.P. da Palestrina Conservatory in Cagliari, he obtained certification to teach clarinet in middle schools with a thesis titled "Composition in the Educational Musical Path – First Approach to Composition in Instrumental Teaching."
He specialized in clarinet and chamber music with Fausto Ghiazza, Rocco Parisi, Davide Lattuada, Stefano Cardo, Michele Naglieri, Gaetano Falzarano, Pasquale Iriu, Konstantin Bogino, Alessandro Moccia, Enrico Maria Baroni, and others. He has won national and international competitions as a soloist and in chamber music ensembles (Eboli, Barletta, Matera, Bari, Cetraro, etc.). He has performed in orchestras during tours in France (Youth Orchestras Festival), China (Italian Philharmonic Orchestra tour), and Thailand (Bangkok International Music Festival). He was a member of the "Freilach Ensemble," an instrumental group dedicated to rediscovering traditional Yiddish music, with which he also performed live on Radio3.
As a composer, he won the First Absolute Prize at the Picerno Guitar Composition Competition in 2015 with the piece Castrum Pizeni and the third prize at the "XXIX Music Competition Città di Moncalieri" with his composition Orto for wind quintet. His wind ensemble compositions were performed for the ballet MaPA – Matera Performing Arts (2011), curated by Avi Kaiser and Sergio Antonino, and for the theatrical performance ContemporaneaMente in memory of Albino Pierro (2012). He wrote part of the music for the play Li Marziani by Michele Vajuso (2013) and two soundtracks for Inquinamento Artistico (2014). In 2016, for Arci Nazionale, he composed 4 Variations on the Theme of Bella Ciao for solo flute, performed live at the 2018 conference in Bologna. In 2017, he released his first album, a collection of 10 piano pieces titled Rattrappited Kisses.In 2018, he recorded three pieces for solo flute, Alquanto Sei Ginosa, performed by Davide Giove in Italy, and by Simona Castria in France in the soprano saxophone version at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Paris. That same year, he transcribed Pierino e il lupo for piano four hands, performed by Cecilia Novarino and Cristina Laganà during the Polincontri series at the Polytechnic University of Turin.In 2021, his Preludi dallo Spazio were performed in Brescia by pianist Alessandro Deljavan as part of the GIA concert series. In 2024, he was awarded second place in the "Risuona la Resistenza" composition competition. Having approached audio production on DAWs since 2023, he is co-author of the music used aboard the MSC Cruises fleet. In 2024, his composition Trois Pièces Brèves for viola was selected in the Call for Scores and performed at the Conservatory of Alessandria.That same year, his collection Insieme – 18 pieces for clarinet ensemble (beginner level) was published by Eufonia Publishing House. In 2024, he was runner-up in the Komos International Choral Composition Competition 2024 – 8th Edition with his composition Nothing but Ourselves for choir and piano.
Winner of the 2016 Teaching Competition, he currently teaches at I.C. Nigra in Turin.
Formazione
Diploma in clarinetto Conservatorio "E.R. Duni" di Matera
Diploma in strumentazione per banda Conservatorio "Rota" di Monopoli
Diploma in composizione Conservatorio "A. Pedrollo" di Vicenza
Diploma in Didattica della Musica Conservatorio "Palestrina" di Cagliari
Tirocinio Formativo Attivo presso Università di Cagliari
Abilitazione insegnamento Licei Musicali Conservatorio di Torino

