A versatile musician, he engages in the most diverse musical experiences, in the crucial search for common elements.
In Naples, at the San Pietro a Majella Conservatory, he graduated with honors in Piano, Harpsichord, and later in Composition and Band Instrumentation. He attended the Principal Organ and Trumpet classes as an auditor for three years and was subsequently admitted to the Conducting School. From 1985 to 2009, he collaborated intensively as an external pianist for exam sessions at Italian conservatories.
He attended advanced courses with Alexander Lonquich (Piano), Massimo Pradella and Giovanni Leone (chamber music), Luciano Chailly (composition), and Sergio Magli (operatic repertoire).
In 1992, after graduating from the I.S.F.O.M. After studying music therapy, he specialized, with G. Di Franco, in the use of music therapy techniques for the treatment of childhood autism. He devoted himself for ten years to intense work as a music therapist, which he combined with his work as a concert performer and composer.
In 2000, he received an honorable mention at the 1st Flores – UNESCO International Symphonic Composition Competition with his symphonic sketch “The Fire of Armageddon.”
Since 1986, his activities as a pianist, composer, and teacher have alternated, intertwined, and followed one another with the same interest and passion.
He collaborates as a pianist and composer with: the Teatro Comunale of Orvieto, the Teatro “Verdi” of Salerno, the Teatro di San Carlo of Naples, the Collegium Philharmonic of Naples, the Academy of Fine Arts of Naples, the Teatro Comunale of Orvieto, the Italian Embassy in Berlin, the Parliament Building in Budapest, the Guardia di Finanza Music Band, the “Martucci” Conservatory of Salerno, the Perosi Conservatory of Campobasso, the Rossini Conservatory of Pesaro, the Santa Cecilia Conservatory of Rome, the Conservatory of Cagliari, the London Symphony Orchestra, the Collegium Philharmonic of Naples, the Kultur Hause Bolzano, Emdemol Italia, Brunetti & Brunetti Audiovisivi Rome, the U.S. Navy Chapel Naples, the Palace of Culture in Beirut, the Academy of Fine Arts of Naples, the Italian Embassy in Berlin, the Rianxo Auditorium, the Paraninfo USC Santiago de Compostela, the Coliseo Noela Noia in Spain, and the University of Naples – Department of Humanities.
Author of writings in the fields of teaching methodology, music therapy, and for music-focused primary schools, he has published numerous works, many of which are recorded: “Delirium Musica” (2010, ed. Santabarbara) and Rest-Auri (produced by Studio&Studio) in 2013. In 2022 he recorded a double CD “Re-Esistenze” for the Da Vinci Publishing label in the Contemporary section with a presentation by Renzo Cresti, and in 2024 for Aulicus Classics he presented “Artifici” with the Quattro Cornici Sinfoniche dedicated to the conductor Gennaro Cappabianca and other works with the Collegium Philarmonicum Youth Orchestra. The album, reviewed by numerous music magazines, was presented at the Sala Scarlatti of the San Piaetro a Majella Conservatory by Paolo Tortiglione. In 2025, in Salerno, he participated as a composer at the European Clarinet Festival with the suite for clarinet choir “Un Brandeburghese Immaginario,” commissioned by G. Falzarano. In the same year, for the production of “L’Ultimo Viaggio,” he collaborated again with actor Mariano Rigillo, curated by the Collegium Philarmonicum, on the reconstruction of the music from Miklós Rózsa’s Ben-Hur (1959).
Reviews of his works appear regularly in specialist journals such as Musica and MusicVoice.