Born in 1976 he started playing guitar at the age of 11 and learned the basics of the guitar from his father Vittorio La Piana.
In 1992 he graduated in theory and solfege and in 1994 he took the V° year classical guitar diploma at the Conservatory of Catania(Italy).
In those years he also studied electric guitar at Lizard School of Music in Florence,Italy,with famous players as :M.Mellner and G.Castellano.
In 1998 he start teaching at Lizard and together with the school teaching staff he wrote "Scuola di chitarra elettrica",a guitar method edited in Italy by BMG|Ricordi.
In 1999 he moved to Milan, where he studied with D.Minotti (Baglioni,CPM) and G.Monteforte(F.Cerri,L.Konitz).also he teached at 2 Yamaha music schools.
In 2000 he got accepted at the Conservatory of Amsterdam (Nethelands).
Here he had the opportunity to study with H.Sprenger,M.Van Iterson,E.Verhoef,M.Van Der Grinten and also to attend several clinics of many famous jazz musicians.During that time he performed all over the Netherlands in various formations going from Pop to Jazz.
In 2005 ,after he graduated at the Conservatory of Amsterdam,he performed in Italy all over Sicily and he teached at Schizzi Sonori school of Music in Catania(Italy).
Currenty he is teaching at Forte Muziek School in Zaandam,(Netherlands) and he's starting a duo and a quintet projects with guitar players F.Castellazzi and S.Fazio.
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