He obtained a diploma in Percussion Instruments in 1995 from the Morlacchi Conservatoire of Perugia under the guidance of Alessandro Tomassetti, graduating with a mark of 10\/10. During and after his conservatoire studies he attended advanced courses with various masters, including G. Mortensen, D. Friedmann, D. Humair, R. Schulkowsky, R. van Sice and J. Faber.
After sporadic experiences in the world of classical music, following auditions in which he was deemed eligible, in 1992 he began collaborating as a percussionist with various Italian orchestras, including the Orchestra del Teatro Massimo Vincenzo Bellini in Catania, the Orchestra del Teatro San Carlo in Naples, the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI, the Orchestra of Teatro alla Scala in Milan and the Orchestra of Teatro dell\u2019Opera in Rome. He has worked, among others, under the direction of Riccardo Muti, Riccardo Chailly, Mstislav Rostropovich, Antonio Pappano and Alexander Lonquich.
He has collaborated with various chamber music ensembles \u2013 Hyperprism Percussioni, Kaleido Ensemble, Soqquadro Italiano \u2013 but it is with Tetraktis Percussion, of which he is a founding member, that he has carried out most of his chamber activity, performing in Italy, Germany, Turkey, Sweden, Nigeria and the United States of America. With Tetraktis he has performed with internationally renowned soloists such as Alessandro Carbonare, Alessio Allegrini, Jonathan Williams and Cristina Zavalloni, among others.
He has numerous collaborations spanning different musical genres: Jovanotti, Xavier Girotto, Luciano Biondini, Gabriele Mirabassi, Krama Ensemble, DJ Ralf and Ramberto Ciammarughi. He has also worked extensively with spoken theatre companies and festivals as a stage percussionist or as a composer of incidental music and sound design (Fontemaggiore, Teatro Stabile dell\u2019Umbria, Spoleto Festival and others), under directors such as Gigi Dall\u2019Aglio, Giampiero Frondini and Mario Martone.
Since 2003 he has collaborated as coordinator of the project \u201cMusica per Crescere\u201d with the Fondazione Perugia Musica Classica, which creates concerts, lecture-concerts and musical performances for children and young people. In orchestral and chamber ensembles he has taken part in numerous festivals and concert series, including Musica Verticale in Rome, Rencontres Musicales d\u2019\u00c9vian, Ravenna Festival, Musikverein in Vienna, Salzburg Mozart Festival, Lingotto Musica, Amici della Musica of Florence, Amici della Musica of Palermo and Amici della Musica of Perugia, Spoleto Festival, Ferrara Musica, Ravello Festival and the Societ\u00e0 del Quartetto of Milan.
He has published four books of rhythmic exercises for ensembles with Margiacchi Edizioni Musicali, dedicated to the learning of rhythmic notation and ensemble music practice. He has taught percussion instruments at the Conservatoires of Trieste, Foggia, Rodi Garganico and Avellino. He is currently Professor of Percussion Instruments at the Rossini Conservatoire in Pesaro. He has taken part in several live and recorded national radio broadcasts (Radio Tre Suite, La Stanza della Musica, Radio Tre in Festival from Cervia, Materadio) and has recorded for RAI, Mediaset, PH Musicworx, Fonit Cetra, Label Bleu, Universal, Decca and Brilliant Classics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
He obtained a diploma in Percussion Instruments in 1995 from the Morlacchi Conservatoire of Perugia under the guidance of Alessandro Tomassetti, graduating with a mark of 10\/10. During and after his conservatoire studies he attended advanced courses with various masters, including G. Mortensen, D. Friedmann, D. Humair, R. Schulkowsky, R. van Sice and J. Faber.After […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":593996,"parent":593244,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-parts\/docenti-child.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-592761","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n