In 2024, he began a collaboration with the Orchestra della Magna Grecia in Taranto, conducting several symphonic concerts at the Teatro Orfeo (with pianist Emanuil Ivanov). In 2025, he toured Albania with the same orchestra for an operatic production in the theatres of Vlorë, Tirana, and Durrës, and conducted the world premiere of Non c’è miele, a musical fable by Tommaso d’Agostini and Stefano Valanzuolo.

Since 2022, he has also been a regular guest at the Trecastagni International Music Festival, conducting symphonic concerts with his Orchestra Orfeo (featuring soloists Asi Matathias and Oleksandra Fedosova). In 2025, he was invited to the summer season of the Teatro Massimo Bellini in Catania for a symphonic concert dedicated to Alan Parsons and wrote the arrangements for the New Year’s Concert.

He also composed Fantasia Belliniana (EMA Vinci Edizioni, 2025), commissioned for the 190th anniversary of Vincenzo Bellini’s death and performed during the Bellini International Context (BIC 2025) by the Quartetto di Catania. In the same year, he appeared as guest conductor with the Orchestra Sinfonica Brutia at the Teatro Rendano in Cosenza, with I Solisti Lucani in Matera (featuring cellist Erica Piccotti), and concluded the Giovanni Paisiello Festival in Taranto conducting La Passione for soloists, choir, and orchestra.

In December 2025, he closed the 50th Opera Season of the Province of Lecce conducting María de Buenos Aires, directed by Giandomenico Vaccari, featuring Stefania Rocca, Héctor López, and Albane Carrère.

In 2026, he conducts the world premiere of the contemporary opera Le Nozze dell’Orso by Joe Schittino at the Teatro Massimo Bellini in Catania, directed by Davide Garattini. In the same year, he is invited by the Young European Musician Orchestra for the Easter Concerts in Ravenna and Forlì, collaborating with violinist Andrea Cicalese.

Since 2023, he has served as assistant conductor to Fabrizio Maria Carminati, Giacomo Sagripanti, and, from 2024, Salvatore Percacciolo, working in Catania, Florence, Bari, and Palermo. He is a full member of the Sibelius Society Italia.

As a composer, since 2018 he has collaborated with Da Vinci Publishing (Osaka), for which he has written several chamber works, all distributed by Hal Leonard Europe and collected in the album Fragments de temps (2021). He also composed Ave Maria, Vox Pacis for the Mysterium Festival 2026 of the Orchestra della Magna Grecia, conducted by Günter Neuhold and featuring Spanish soprano Rocío Faus (Edizioni Musicali Eleutheria, 2026).

In 2022, Brilliant Classics released his debut album as a conductor (Music for Strings), featuring works by Tchaikovsky, Arensky, Elgar, and Fuchs. At the end of 2023, he recorded a second album (Romanza), dedicated to Sibelius, Barber, Britten, and Pärt, released in July 2024.

He also contributes to several cultural journals (including Incontri, La Sicilia, and L’Altrove) and, since 2023, has been a faculty member at the Conservatorio di Musica Giovanni Paisiello in Taranto.

He began studying classical guitar at the age of seven and gave his first solo recital at nine. A student of Gilberto Serembe, he graduated in orchestral conducting from the Italian Conducting Academy in Milan and obtained his master’s diploma with highest honors at the Conservatorio Egidio Romualdo Duni in Matera under Pablo Varela. He furthered his studies with György Györiványi Ráth, Daniele Agiman, and Nicola Samale, and in opera conducting with Fabrizio Maria Carminati.

He also graduated with top marks in classical guitar at the Conservatorio Stanislao Giacomantonio in Cosenza under Pietro Morelli, and later studied with composer and guitarist Angelo Gilardino at the Scuola Superiore di Musica Vallotti in Vercelli. He graduated with honors in Music Education from the Conservatorio Vincenzo Bellini in Catania, where he studied composition and piano with Enrico Dibennardo.

Last update: April 2026