Biography

Guitarist, composer, singer, performer and sound artist born in Buenos Aires of Italian origin. His musical interests range mainly from contemporary classical music and new technologies, to popular music from Argentina and Brazil, creating a dialogue between these cultural worlds.

In Argentina he studied composition with the masters Sebastián Piana, Mariano Etkin, Gerardo Gandini, Oscar Edelstein and guitar with Miguel Angel Girollet and Eduardo Egüez. He graduated in guitar with full marks and honors at the Instituto Musical Odeon in Buenos Aires. He then studied composition at the Facultad de Bellas Artes de La Plata, where he won the University’s Artistic Production Award.

Moving to Italy, he graduated in guitar and composition / electronic music at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Milan. At the Civica Scuola di Milano he graduated in guitar with Aldo Minella and obtained a diploma in composition, electronic music and computer science with the masters Alvise Vidolin, Matteo Pennese, Alessandro Solbiati, Giovanni Cospito and Adriano Guarnieri. He also took part in numerous masterclasses and advanced courses with Franco Donatoni, Luis de Pablo, David Russell, Eduardo Issac, Leda Valladares, Toninho Horta, Nuccio D’Angelo and others.

His music has been performed by important performers, used in videos, television and cinema in more than forty countries in the world and he has played with some of the most important musicians on the international scene, such as Riccardo Chailly, Luis Bacalov, Vinko Globokar, Nicola Piovani, Vladimir Jurowski, Diego Flores, Yutaka Sado, Pete Huttlinger, Toninho Horta, Enrico Intra, Daniele di Buonaventura, Fausto Beccalossi, David Blenkhorn, Pepino D’Agostino, Sandro Gorli, Jorge López Ruiz, among others.

He is the guest of several recording and publishing projects with Decca, Stradivarius, Da Vinci Classics, Warner Chappell. The scores of his works are published by the Canadian publishing house Les productions D’OZ and in Italy by Sinfonica Jazz. From 1996 to 2012 he was guitarist of the Giuseppe Verdi Symphony Orchestra of Milan. Since 2001 he forms the duo with the Brazilian singer Dilene Ferraz, winning project of the Forenza Music Awards with whom he records several CDs and makes several international tours. He is the artistic director of the Menaggio and Lake Como International Guitar Festival, director of studies of the Donald Swann Music Academy and teacher at the Conservatory of Lugano, Switzerland.