BIOGRAPHY
Winner of over 30 prizes in prestigious national and international competitions including the Franco Margola International Competition, London International Competition, IMMC Moscow, Swiss International Competition, Concorso Città di Cremona, Concorso Giulio Rospigliosi, Concorso Città di Voghera.
He began studying the guitar in 2008 with Maestro Antonio D’Alessandro.
He graduated with honours from the Conservatorio Antonio Buzzolla in Adria under the guidance of Maestro Giulio Tampalini and continued his studies at the Universität Mozarteum in Salzburg with Maestro Marco Tamayo, concluding the Postgraduate University Course with top marks.
He specialised at the Fondazione Accademia Internazionale di Imola under the guidance of Maestros Giovanni Puddu, Giulio Tampalini, Matteo Mela, Marcin Dylla and Arturo Tallini.
He further graduated with distinction in chamber music at the Conservatorio Antonio Buzzolla with Maestro Nazzareno Carusi.
From 2021 to 2024, he was able to study at the Accademia Chigiana in Siena with Maestro Giovanni Puddu, always receiving the Diploma of Merit, awarded to the best students at the Academy.
He has had the opportunity to perfect his skills in numerous masterclasses with: Leo Brouwer, Marcin Dylla, David Russell, Pavel Steidl, Marco Tamayo, Eliot Fisk, Gabriel Bianco, Eduardo Fernández, Carlo Marchione, Paolo Pegoraro, Andrea De Vitis, Frédéric Zigante, Petrit Çeku, Christian Saggese, Andrea Dieci, and others.
He first recorded for Michelangeli Editore’s SeiCorde magazine when he was only 17 years old.
In 2017, he received the Mauro Fantinelli International Prize for the best young Italian talent of the year. The following year he won the critics’ prize and the audience prize at the 1st Giancarlo Facchinetti Interpretation Prize in Brescia.
He made his debut in 2019 with the orchestra during the International Guitar Festival Homage to Brouwer performing Joaquin Rodrigo’s Fantasia para un gentilhombre in the presence of Leo Brouwer.
