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Italian artist, his path is between experimentation and classical music.
He plays cello, sings and makes electronic compositions in Agrapha Dogmata (Alessandro Seravalle, ErmesGhirardini, Laura della Longa, Luigina Tusini) a fusion project of contemporary dance, improvised music and visual arts. He plays Chamber Music for cello and guitar in "Extatico Duo" with the classical guitarist Hu Bin. In the Improvisation D.O.B. Orchestra (Giovanni Maier, Giorgio Pacorig, Paolo Pascolo, Michele Spanghero,Andrea Gulli, Mimmo Cogliandro, Ugo Boscain, Flavio Brumat, GianAgresti, Gabriele Cancelli, Costanzo Tortorelli, Carlo Franceschinis). Within the DOB Orchestra and International Orchestra Brez Meja/Without Borders (DOB + COMBO, Slovenia) he has played or have been conducted by Evan Parker, Saadet Turkoz, Giancarlo Schiaffini, Zlatko Kaučič, Giovanni Maier, Johannes Bauer. He has played with "I 100 Celli di Giovanni Sollima", ORKA(Jens L. Thompsen - Faroe Islands), Armando Battiston, Benjamin Broening (USA), Parallax, Anders Tveit, Ida Helen Heidel(Nor), Anna Antonelli (I) ArturMajewski(Pol), SoUNdcellS Cello Duo (with Riccardo pes), Strepitz (Giovanni Floreani, Ermes Ghirardini, Lorenzo Marcolina, Paolo Viezzi)

In March 2013 he has been “composer in residence” at Notam Center, Oslo (Norwegian Center for Technology in Music and Art) with the support of PNEK (Production Network for Electronic Art – Norway). He worked at the Notam studios for a week on his project nOdes, collaborating with the experimental trio Parallax,the electronic artist Anders Tveit, the flutist and composer Ida Helen Heidel performing with them in the Notam Center concert series LydMyren and at the presentation of the project nOdes.

From 2011 to 2012 (as winner of Leonardo Program European Scholarship) he worked as Chamber Music Collaborator at Salzburg Universität Mozarteum (Austria) in the class of Guitar of Prof. Matthias Seidel (ass. Marco Tamayo) and at Sandor Vegh Institute for Chamber Music (Universität Mozarteum). As member of Extatico Duo (with Hu Bin, guit - China) and other ensembles he also performed at Solitär, Wiener Saal and Kleines Studio of the Mozarteum University and at the Concert Hall of Frohnburg Castle (Salzburg). With Extatico Duo he explore contemporary and classical repertoire for this particular instrument combination, also working on the arrangements. In 2013 they recorded their original arrangement of “Ouverture de I Masnadieri” for CD “é – dedicato a Verdi” Giuseppe Verdi's 200th Jubelee. (State Conservatory “Licinio Refice” of Frosinone Production)

He played in the Universität Mozarteum Orchestra, Estonian Music and Theatre Academy Symphony Orchestra, Academia Simphonica (It), I 100 Celli di Giovanni Sollima, Wien Klang Sinfonietta(2nd cello), being conducted by Giovanni Sollima, Franz Anton Krager (USA), Peter Burwik (A) Carlos Chamorro (S), Erki Pehk(Est), Cecilia Rydinger Alin (Sve),Erns Reijseger (NL) Pierangelo Pelucchi (I) Jean Bernard Matter (Fr) and others.

Heperformed in Italy, Norway, Estonia, Slovenia, Austria, Croatia,China and Canada.

Within the above-mentioned projects and others he performed at BRDAContemporary Music Festival (Slo), Shanghai Oriental Art Center; Beijing – Chinese People's Republic CongressHall and Beijing Art Center, Tianjin Congress Hall, Chongqing Theatre and Congress Hall, Shenyang – Grand Theatre of Liaoning, and others(Wien Klang Sinfonietta China Tour), 14th Contemporary Music Festival “Luigi Nono” - Trieste, Festival Stazione di Topolò/Postaja Topolove (IT),“...improviz” International improvisation festival - Tartu (Est),“Cankarjevi torki” Cankarjev Dom - Klub CD - Lubiana (Slo),"Suns" International Festival of Minority Languages 2012(live on Italian National Radio RAI), SmartFest Festival (Slo),Dobiarteventi (IT) Associazione Musicale Lucchese (PalazzoDucale - Sala Ademollo – Lucca – IT), Teatro Valle Occupato (Rome) "Avostanis" Festival of Colonos di Villacaccia (Ud) , "Libera!"International Day of Dance 2010 (Arearea – IT) UdinEstate.

Actually, as singer he is is touring China with his project “Oh Some Acustic Funk!” (Aimo Scampa, Cristina Virco, Luca Ricciardi)

Composes and plays, sings and records for Contemporary Theater CSS-Stabile Innovation Theatre of Friuli Venezia Giulia, Rita Maffei, HC- Capitale Umano, Guido Feruglio, Furio Honsell, Federica Sansevero and others), for various artists as the progressive experimental band Garden Wall, Deja, Rocco Burtone, Il Cane, Anna Antonelli, Nova Lisi and others; for the estonian animation movie soundtrack “The Dress/Kleit” composed by Malle Maltis (NUKUFilm Productions- prize winner in many european animation movie festivals), for the Poet Gianmario Villalta (“Premio Viareggio”prize winner), and with the “Ossi di Seppia” prize winners Sebastiano Adernò and Maurizio Benedetti.

Some of his electronic compositions as “Sottoterra Gorgoglia –Inshallah”, “La Cagna Element”, “La Parola Si Sprigiona”, "Gods' Atlas”, have been played in daily rotation for a year onTaukay Web Radio (the first Contemporary Music web radio in Italy).

As member of I 100 Celli di Giovanni Sollima,he played on the Italian National TV RAI 3 from the main event Concerto del 1° Maggio – Rome 2013. and Beijing TV with "Oh Some Acustic Funk!".

Among the other radios he played for the Italian National Radio RAI3 (ICento Celli) and in the programs "Radio 3 Suite" live with Minimalna Topolovska Orchestra at Teatro Dal Verme (MI) for MilanoFilmFestival and RAI3 "Fehrenheit” with Brown&The Leaves live from Rome Expositions Center EUR, RAI-FVG performing "La Parola si sprigiona" in the program "Il Suono di Pan" conducted by Piero Pieri and Marco Maria Tosolini.

He teaches cello at the Slovenian School of Music “Glasbena Matica", cello and modern singing at the School of Music "Scuola delle Arti, Danza e Musica" of Udine (IT).

He has a Bachelor in cello at the State Conservatory of Udine “Jacopo Tomadini” (I) under the guidance of Giuliano Vio and Carlo Teodoro (ExNovo Ensemble) and studied baroque cello for a year with Walter Vestidello (I Suonatori della Gioiosa Marca, 1st cello - Mozart Orchestra of Claudio Abbado).

In 2007 he studied at the Estonian Music and Theatre Academy (as winner of Erasmus Scholarship) with Peeter Paemurru (cello), Anto Pett(contemporary improvisation, impro conducting) and Anne-Liis Poll(impro. voice, impro conducting). He followed the Cello masterclasses of Michael Flaksman and Jelena Ocic for many years, (Villa Manin, Conservatory ofUdine), Enrico Bronzi (at Salzburg Universität Mozarteum2012/2013), Matthias De Oliveira Pinto (at Estonian Music and Theatre Academy), Teodora Campagnaro. For chamber music with Tünde Kurucz and Gerda Guttenberg Bastian ( Universität Mozarteum), Carlo Teodoro (State Conservatory of Udine - IT), he held Improvisation workshop with Evan Parker, Mark Ribot, Albert Hera, Luisa Cottifogli. Of overtone singing with Frederich Glorian, of electronic composition with Marco Messina (99 Posse), Francesco Contadini, jazz with Armando Battiston, Nicola Bottos, gospel with Bob Singleton (N.Y. Golden Gospel Singers), with whom he also performed as a soloist in two concerts; Damien Sneed (Stevie Wonder, Grammy Nominee, receiving honors from him). Thanks to the great singer Cheryl Porter he received twice the scholarship "Gospel in Castelbrando – International Gospel Conference in Italy" haveing the chance to study with Stars of Black Music as Terron Brooks (Tony Award, Broadway: Simba – Walt Disney's Lion King), Cheryl Porter, Rose Harper, Mary Burns, Dave Massey and others.
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