Born in Turin, he obtained diplomas in violin (Professor Anderson), viola (Maestro Davide Zaltron) and composition (Maestro Giorgio Colombo Taccani) in his hometown.
He distinguished himself in various Italian competitions and attended masterclasses with Pavel Vernikov and Vadim Brodski. He then studied with Christoph Schiller at the Musikakademie in Basel, with Bruno Giuranna at the Walter Stauffer School in Cremona and with Wolfram Christ at the Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana. He also participated in masterclasses with Tabea Zimmermann at the Centre de musique Hindemith in Blonay (Switzerland) and at the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival in Lübeck.
He has collaborated with Turin’s leading musical institutions, such as the Teatro Regio, the Turin Philharmonic Orchestra, De Sono, Settembre Musica, Mito and the Unione Musicale, and as a chamber musician he has been a guest of numerous Italian institutions (Teatro della Pergola in Florence, Gog in Genoa, Società del Quartetto in Bergamo, Museo del Violino in Cremona, Teatro Bellini in Catania, Società Barattelli in L’Aquila, etc.). He has performed in various chamber ensembles alongside musicians such as Marta Argerich, Lorenza Borrani, Enrico Bronzi, Mario Brunello, Bruno Canino, Giuliano Carmignola, Enrico Dindo, Ingrid Fliter, Ilya Gringolts, Ilya Grubert, Alexander Lonquich, Andrea Lucchesini, Domenico Nordio, Enrico Pace, Mariusz Patyra, Massimo Quarta, Alexander Sitkovetsky and Pavel Vernikov. As principal viola, he has played with the Turin Philharmonic Orchestra, the Mantua Chamber Orchestra, the Teatro alla Scala Philharmonic Orchestra, the Mozart Orchestra of Bologna, the Gran Canaria Philharmonic Orchestra, the World Orchestra for Peace founded by Georg Solti, the Camerata Salzburg and the Leonore Orchestra of Pistoia.
In 2002, he performed Schnittke’s concerto under the baton of Maestro Jansug Kakhidze with the RAI National Symphony Orchestra, and – with the same orchestra – Richard Strauss’ Don Quixote (1999, conductor Frédérich Chaslin) and Hector Berlioz’s Harold en Italie (2007, conductor Daniel Kawka). In 2015, together with violinist Roberto Gonzalez, he performed Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante with the Orchestra dell’Accademia di Santa Cecilia, conducted by Maestro Christoph Eschenbach.
Since 2010, he has been a regular guest teacher of viola at the advanced courses held by the Fondazione Musicale Santa Cecilia in Portogruaro.
From 1998 to 2009, he held the position of Principal Viola with the RAI National Symphony Orchestra and since 2009 he has been Principal Viola with the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome.
