About my life and his music
I was born in Vittorio Veneto, in the province of Treviso, on 19th June, 1977.
I have been studying classic guitar since I was ten years old, but I really wished this instrument
long time before. I don’t know why but on St. Nicolo’s day (in Italy it is similar to Christmas’s day)
I absolutely wanted my parents gave me one so on the 6th December it finally arrived .
I started to study guitar only when I really had the possibility to handle it. All the merit goes to
my mother who had the great idea to register me to a guitar school, although the rest of my
family and my teacher did not agree on it.
So I started my musical way with the support of Stefano Viola as a teacher. I share an advantageous
cultural relation with him, at the beginning as a student, now as a musician and a colleague.
I’m really happy to say that my lessons were ever based on dialogue and comparison, not only on strictly
teaching. Music ever was the only thing I have been looking for, step by step the more I improved
my technical capacities the more I improved the quality of my lessons. Because of him I need and
I want to change my musical dogmas to renew my knowledge as much as I can so it can be ever fresh
and authentic.
A bit later approaching the age of 18 I started to study guitar with the teacher and concert artist
Paolo Pegoraro at the Academy of Guitar Interpretation “ F. Tarrega ” in Pordenone, where he is teacher
and founder with Stefano Viola. Paolo taught me to find the meaning of every single note and breathe.
In music all happens with inevitable consequentiality so a good musician has to pay homage to it during
the performance.
Sonority research and ability to create energy during the performance were suggested to me by my friend
and highly esteemed musician Adriano De Sal. I used the term ‘suggested’ because it is a thing that you
cannot explain. Everyone of us has just to search for it and as a matter of facts I received an enormous
stimulus.
I took my guitar’s diploma in 1999 at Conservatory of Fermo with high marks as an external candidate,
so I improved myself by attending lessons in master class with teachers like: David Russel, Manuel
Barrueco, Oscar Ghiglia, Alberto Ponce.
I got few acknowledgments at the different national and international contests I took part to. In 1991
I won “National Competition city of Asti”, in 1997 “Competition for Young Talents city of Azzano X”,
in 1999 “International Competition city of Varenna”, in 2004 “National Competition city of Ortona”,
in 2005 “International Competition Rospigliosi” city of Pistoia, “National Competition city of
Castelfidardo” (AN), “ National Competition city of Seveso” (MI), in 2006 “National Competition
city of Parma” and “International Competition Kitarika city of Capodistria”. But I don’t believe
much in this kind of competitions, although I won a lot of them, because they often inhibit
the pure musician and sometimes make “the circensian” aspect more important than the deep musical one.
Music is not a competition you have to win. Music is a way to search for inside yourself.
The only one goal is to be good at moulding the sound at the point that you can express energy
and transform it into emotion and vice versa. But emotion is mutable for its nature, so the goal is
mutable at the same way .
I regularly have tours in Mexico; I was engaged to play in the most important international festivals
of Italy, as The International Festival of Friuli Venezia Giulia, The International Festival of
M.Castelnuovo Tedesco (city of Treviso) and The International Festival N. Paganini (city of Parma).
I recorded music for Mexican radio and television , in Italy for RAI and other Italian private televisions .
I own another part of my artistic career to composing music. I began writing in August 2002 after the
diagnosis of a neurological disease called ‘focal dystonia’ on the forefinger of the right hand.
Still at the age of 12 I was convinced that a musician could not but express himself through composing
so as to be defined a musician. Maybe due to the fact that a few stimuli I received along the path of
this activity I soon abandoned the innate need to let a mark on the paper.
The impossibility to play made me ‘shelter’ in this sound place in order to maintain a live relationship
with music itself. Beside the activity of music composer I started the activity of ‘painter’ as well
even if it is difficult to call me painter. The reason is that I realized the inner need to create a
phono-chromatic system that allowed me to translate colours into music and give an artistic shape to
my compositions.
Perhaps I am not able to paint in a traditional way, but I know exactly the way I mean to set the colours
on the canvas and the shape I want to attribute to music.