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Born in Rome in, after have been studied for some years classical music at "Béla Bartok" school of music in Rome, he moves to Bologna where begins his studies about jazz music. His performing activities start in 1996 playng different kind of music (jazz, reggae, rock). For a number of years he has worked in the field of improvised music and has attended workshops on improvisation with Tristan Honsinger, Mischa Mengelberg, Roscoe Mitchell, Antony Braxton, William Parker and conduction with Butch Morris. From 2001 plays with the Ark Ensemble, recording the CD "Rimbaud". In july 2002 attends a workshop of music composition for movies kept by Luis Bacalov at the Chigiana Academy of music in Siena. In the summer 2003 he composed and plays the soundtrack of silent film " Der Golem" during a festival organized by the city of Florence. In 2004 he takes part to the recording of the CD " La pinguina innamorata- voci diversamente abili" published by Il Manifesto. In the same year composed the soundtrack for the short movie "Autoritratto" directed by Francesco Amato and producted by the National School of Cinema. The first track of the CD "Rimbaud" is used as a jingle in the radio programme "Due di notte" transmitted on Radio Due Rai. In 2005 he won the “Iceberg†prize, biennial competition for young artists. In 2005 he won a scholarship for best piano player at the summer jazz workshop at Sant’Anna Arresi (Sardinia) thanks to which he then performed in June with the group Guitto Gargle at the festival “Jazz in It†at Vignola (the concert was broadcast in September on Radio Tre Rai during the transmission Radio Tre Suite) and in September at the international festival "Ai confini tra Sardegna e Jazz" at Sant’Anna Arresi. In January 2006 he performed with the orchestra of the Teatro Comunale of Bologna as pianist and arranger at the Manzoni Theatre at Bologna in a concert on music by Nicola Piovani. From some years he has been performing concerts and also teaching. He graduated in the three year course for composition and arrangement “Musica d’uso-musica ad indirizzo multimediale†at the conservatory G.B. Martini of Bologna. He is getting graduate at Departement of Music and Performing Arts of Bologna university.