Current Positions:
- Since 2017 Music and Artistic Director, Erasmus Youth Orchestra
- Since 2020 Artistic Consultant, Fondazione Teatro Petruzzelli di Bari for
International Relationship Projects
Education:
- Piano, composition and conducting studies with Maestros M. Gusella, D. Renzetti,
G. Serembe, N. Samale
- Choir conducting with R. Gandolfi, whose assistant he was from 1995 to 1998
- Conducting master classes with I. Gillian at the Mozarteum in Salzburg
- Associated Conductor of Maestro Anton Guadagno from 2000 to 2001
Professional Experience:
In his professional career since 1991, he has conducted practically the entire Italian
and French Opera Repertoire in Italy and abroad, gaining important recognition from
the public and the critics
- From 2020 to 2023 Principal Conductor, of the Cairo Opera Orchestra conducting,
among others, G,Verdi's Aida on the occasion of the Celebration of 150 years since
its first performance.
- From 2019 to 2021 Artistic and Music Director, Hong Kong Opera Company MTM
and Music Director, Hong Kong Grand Opera conducting various opera productions
- Production of "Carmen" by G. Bizet with Miami Lyric Opera (2018)
- From 2012 to 2016 Artistic Director of the Fundacion Opera Panama where in 2013
he founded the Orquesta Juvenil Italo-Panamense in collaboration with the Italian
Embassy and Conservatory of Music “Santa Cecilia” in Rome conducting a
production of "Aida " in stage form 90 years after the first performance in Panama’
- Among the countless productions are the highly applauded tour in Korea with
soprano Jo (2016); Debut in Kyoto, Japan, with "Pagliacci" (2015); Debut with the
Teatro National di San Josè - Costa Rica with "Nabucco" (2014)); Production of
"Andrea Chénier" at the Teatro G. Verdi di Pisa (2014); Debut at the Opera Festival
of Castelgrande - Bellinzona with "La Traviata" (2011)
- From 2012 to 2014 Artistic Director of the Festival del Mediterraneo in Trani
(2012) where he alos conducted “La Traviata” and “ Tosca”.
- In 2013, he conducted the world premiere of Antonio Fortunato's opera "Falcone e
Borsellino-ovvero il muro dei martiri" at the "G,Verdi" theatre in Pisa, which was
then replied for the Luglio Musicale Trapanese (2017).
- From 2001 to 2012 he was Principal Guest Conductor at L'Opera Catalunya in
Sabadell - conducting 14 opera productions
- From 2000 to 2010 he conducted for: Palm Beach Opera , Young Singers
Metropolitan Foundation - New York for "Ernani" and "Messa da Requiem" by G.
Verdi; Seul Art Center and Sejong with Seoul Symphony orchestra , Cairo , Lisbon
and Cascais Festival for Teatro Sao Carlo , Taipei with TSO, China and Indonesia for
"Così Fan Tutte" tour with Eastern Philharmonic Orchestra
Master Classes:
- Frequent participation in Master Classes on conducting and the Italian opera
repertoire in various parts of the world, including Hong Kong, Egypt, Ukraine, Spain,
Russia, Italy, USA, Colombia, Costa Rica, Korea and China.
