Training
2013- 2017 Master Horn at Hochschule für Musik und Theater "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" Leipzig with Professor Thomas Hauschild.
2010-2013 Master of Arts in Music Performance/Orchester at the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste Radovan Vlatković, Nigel Downing, Glen Borling.
2007-2009 Orchestra Giovanile Italiana/Scuola di Musica di Fiesole
2001-2007 Diploma of Horn at Conservatorio V. Bellini in Palermo 2001-2006 Diploma of High School of Linguistics at Istituto A. Lincoln in Palermo
Projects/Masterclass/Awards
2014- now First horn at Gulbenkian Orchestra in Lisbon 2013-2014 Annual contract with Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
06/2013 1. Prize at the chamber music competition "Wettbewerb Interpretation Zeitgenössische Musik Zhdk 2013'' (Coda Quintet) 11/2011-02/2012 Contract at the Zurich Opera Orchestra
01/2012 Tournee as soloist (Mozart KV495) with the Orchestra Bayerischen Philharmonie in Europe
2011-2012 Academy at Sinfonieorchester Basel 05/2010 Concert with Sinfonieorchester der Universität Mozarteum, Salzburg
06/2008 Concert at the Teatro Alla Scala in Milan
03/2008 Tournee negli Emirati Arabi con l'Orchestra dell'accademia del Teatro Alla Scala di Milano.
2005-now Masterclass with the Masters: Hermann Baumann, Alessio Allegrini, Radovan Vlatković, Dale Klevenger, Nigel Downing, Alejandro Nuñez, Jean-Pierre Berry, Lukas Christinat, Konstantin Becker, Jonathan Williams, Ab Koster, Danilo Stagni, Hans Pizka.
He has collaborated and collaborated with the following orchestras: Teatro Alla Scala in Milan, Opera in Rome, Teatro Massimo in Palermo, Teatro San Carlo in Naples, La Fenice in Venice, Sicilian Symphony Orchestra, Teatro Massimo Bellini in Catania, Haydn Symphony Orchestra in Bolzano, Sinfonieorchester Basel, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Deutsche Oper Berlin. He has played under the direction of the masters: Zubin Metha, Charles Dutoit, Riccardo Muti, Jeffrey Tate, Alain Lombard, Gianandrea Noseda, James Conlon, David Zinman, Gabriele Ferro, Dennis Russell Davies, Neeme Järvi, Jurij Temirkanov, Manfred Honeck, Esa Pekka Salonen.
In Fondazione Fossano Musica teaches horn as part of the project Orchestrando