BIOGRAPHY Composer and pianist of great versatility, born in 1957, and resident of Rome. Throughout the years he has developed a personal style, a product of musical experiences of great horizons. Since he was a child he started playing the drums and the guitar to later on transfer to the piano. He studied in the Conservatory Santa Cecilia of Rome. He graduated in piano with Emma Contestabile, and he was studying musical composition at the same time with Carlo Cammarota and Vieri Tosatti. He started playing very young in the most important Jazz Clubs in Rome. He also toured around Italy in the best Italian theatres as piano player of Adriana Martino in the musical comedy of Frank Wedekind “Una morale da cani” and “Barnum” at the Sistina theatre Italian version with Massimo Ranieri and Ottavia Piccolo. Afterwards, he played in TV productions: RAI: - “Castrocaro” with Claudio Lippi - “Cinema che follia” of Antonello Falqui - “Gran Galà Prix Italia” with Bruno Canfora - “Pronto la Rai?” with Simona Marchini - “La TV delle ragazze” e “Avanzi” with Serena Dandini - “La piscina” with Alba Parietti - “Premio Luigi Tenco” - “Papaveri e papere” with Pippo Baudo e Giancarlo Magalli - “Fantastica” with Paolo Bonolis - “Sanremo Giovani” with Fabio Fazio - “Carramba che sorpresa!” with Raffaella Carrà - “Sanremo si nasce” with Carlo Conti - “In famiglia” of Michele Guardì with Tiberio Timperi and Roberta Capua where he played two of his songs MEDIASET - with Milly Carlucci - with Corrado - “Notte blu” with Gerry Scotti TELEMONTECARLO - “Roxy bar” with Red Ronnie HE PLAYED AND COLLABORATED WITH THE FOLLOWING: - Giorgia - Tullio De Piscopo - Marina Rei - Amii Stewart - Mike Francis - Gegè Telesforo - Gianni Morandi - Massimo Ranieri - Riccardo Fogli - Patty Pravo - Lorella Cuccarini - Lisa He was part of the band called “Avanzi Sound Machine” from which collaboration a live CD for Polydor took shape. ORIGINAL COMPOSITIONS: - TG3 News currently being played; - Various compilations such as “New age and new sounds”, “Bossa ‘n Co” produced by Maximus, Paul and Peter Micioni, “Hit mania” in 2006; - musical pieces and CDs for RAI Trade among others, “Soundscapes” and “Travelling” - soundtracks for Rai Educational (“Intelligenze scomode del Novecento”), Speciale TG1, TV7, Oltremoda, I gialli di RaiTre; - He composed the music for “La nascita del delta moderno”, documentary of Alessandro Cecchi Paone for the directory of Paolo Scarfò; - He released his first CD with RCA BMG International as a pianist, composer and arranger, “Secrets of the heart” (with the support of the drummer Agostino Marangolo, bass Fabio Pignatelli and Walter Martino percussion). These pieces generate emotions that reflect diverse musical influences form jazz to classic. A style more commonly known as “contemporary music”; - Festival di Sanremo and Festivalbar; - theatre music for Corrado Guzzanti; - radio jingles for RAI Stereo 2; - he arranged and composed several TV soundtracks of the show “La tv delle ragazze” with Serena Dandini; - “I ragazzi della 3a C”; - he collaborated with several jazz players as: Danilo Rea, Giovanni Tommaso, Roberto Gatto, Amedeo Tommasi, Maurizio Giammarco.