Viola
2022
Born and raised in Rome, he graduated with honors from the Conservatorio di Santa Cecilia in Rome in the classes of Margot Burton and Luca Sanzò, and pursued further training at the Haute Ecole de Musique de Lausanne with Diemut Poppen, at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz of Cologne with Alexander Zemtsov and at the Accademia Walter Stauffer of Cremona with Bruno Giuranna. A laureate of competitions such as the Anton Rubinstein International Competition (Düsseldorf) and Virtuoso & Belcanto (Lucca), he has attended masterclasses with Nobuko Imai, Kim Kashkashian, Hartmuth Rohde, Lars Anders Tomter and Wilfried Strehle.
As soloist or chamber musician he has performed all across Europe, in venues such as the Gran Teatro la Fenice di Venezia, Kölner Philharmonie, Teatro Ponchielli di Cremona, Teatro alla Scala di Milano and Teatro Sociale di Como, with such artists as Ton Koopman, Giovanni Sollima, Bruno Giuranna, Karl-Heinz Steffens, Andrej Bielow, Salvatore Accardo, Francesca Dego, Robert McDuffie, Franco Petracchi, Luc-Marie Aguera (Ysaÿe Quartet), Alexander Zemtsov, Marko Ylönen, and Antonio Meneses. He is regular guests of institutions such as the Zermatt Festival, in collaboration with the Scharoun Ensemble of the Berlin Philharmonic, Villa Musica Rheinland-Pfalz, the Fiskars Summer Festival, OperaEstate Festival, Aurora Chamber Music, the Accademia dei Cameristi di Bari, Swiss Chamber Academy, New Generation Festival, Talich Beroun Festival and the Rome Chamber Music Festival. Some of his concerts have been recorded for broadcasters such as SWR and RaiRadio3.
Since 2019 he is kindly supported by the Associazione Culturale Musica con le Ali, thanks to which he performs in several prestigious venues all across Italy, alongside some of the best musicians of the country. In 2020, as a result of this collaboration, he has published his first CD, recorded live at the Teatro la Fenice in Venice with Giovanni Sollima, Massimo Quarta and other young Italian talents.
He is furthermore supported by the program NeuStart Kultur of the Deutscher Musikrat, and since 2018 he takes regularly part in the projects of the Lead! Foundation Finland. Since 2021 he is scholarship holder of the foundation Villa Musica Rheinland-Pfalz.
He is currently Principal Viola of the Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana and has cooperated with ensembles such as Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Kölner Kammerorchester, Finnish Chamber Orchestra and Mahler Chamber Orchestra, under the baton of, among others, Antonio Pappano, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Vassily Sinaisky, Jorma Panula, Andrés Orozco-Estrada, Klaus Mäkela, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Juraj Valcuha, Sakari Oramo and Leif Segerstam.