graduated in
classic guitar in Florence Conservatoire in 1991,
he had taken part in masterclasses of
guitar and composition by Leo Brouwer .
His composition’s master
was the South African composer Hendryk Hofmeyr and his jazz master, the famous Italian
Maestro Giancarlo Sicuteri..
During his career, he studied with the same attention and love classic
as jazz, and popular
music, and worked with great musicians, singers, actors and
dancers in their
different fields.
He is the composer and player of the music of the shows of the
Italian comic actor Paolo Hendel and
worked too with other
famous actors as Giorgio Panariello, the
great Clown “Dimitri”, Liliana de Curtis (The Totò’
s daughter).
He arranged a format of recital with lyrical voices singing
the most famous Italian arias from Verdi, Puccini, Rossini, Cilea, etc. with the classic guitar’s
accompaniment bringing this format of show in many theatres and
concert halls.
He even played with many different chamber ensembles,
duos, trios, singers, violin players, cello players, string quartet,
guitar ensembles.
Among the opera singers with whom he played, Giorgio Casciarri (tenor),
Simone Alaimo (Bas-bariton), Inva
Mula (soprano) and many others.
Due his various experiences in studies and work, he walk
without any problem crossover among classic music, opera, swing, jazz
and popular music too,
helped
in this by the characteristics of his own instrument, always
appreciated in every kind of music.
He has fun and new ideas experimenting techniques and moods
caught from different styles and ages.
As a swing and jazz player and bandleader, he played solo
concerts, in duo with sax, singers, violin players
, trio, quartet, until septet.
He played with Giancarlo Sicuteri
(guitarist for Fred Bongusto), Attila Simon
(violin player for Cirque du Soleil) Stefano Negri (sax player for
the “Dirotta su Cuba”
and for Renato Zero) Fabrizio
Morganti (drums player for Biagio Antonacci) and a
lot of other musicians.
Being always attracted by the folk traditional music, expecially the South Italian forms (he was born in Siracusa –Sicily), he always played Italian dances and songs also
with great partners as Fausta Vetere, Mimmo Epifani, Susy Bellucci, the “Kunsertu”.
He plays three kind of guitars :
1)
the classic guitar, an
awesome instrument built by the Sicilian luthier
Antonino Scandurra
is the instrument for the classic concerts and the acoustic jazz
sessions
2)
the amplified classic guitar, is an old Spanish instrument,
adapted with sophisticated electronic. It permit a clean acoustic
amplification for obtain a clear classic sound and a versatility of
equalization changes in the way to give different sound as soloist,
rhythmic, Spanish, and effects as reverb, delay, wha-wha,
until distortions. He plays this instrument on stages, theaters, and in quartet group with voice,
contrabass and drums.
3)
the electric guitar is a
Parker Fly, an eclectic one, that mix magnetic and piezo-electric pickup giving infinitive
possibility of sound from an emulation of acoustic steel guitar,
passing on semi-acoustic jazz sonority, arriving until a metal sound!
He plays this instrument with the sextet with drums, brass, for solos
and rhythmic in funky, soul, Motown,
R&B..
