Born in Terni, he studied at Istituto Musicale G.Briccialdi (piano degree) and in the Conservatoire of S. Cecilia, Roma (degree in composition), L. Cherubini, Firenze (degree in orchestra conducting) and F. Morlacchi, Perugia (degree in choir conducting).

He debuted with Un Ballo in Maschera in Spoleto conducting by heart. After his career brought him to conduct:
Arena di Verona (Aida, Carmen), Carlo Felice in Genova (Butterfly, La traviata), Comunale di Firenze (Butterfly),  Sferisterio in Macerata (Simon Boccanegra, Tosca), Bellini in Catania (La sonnambula), Torre del Lago Puccini (Le villi), Israeli Opera House of Tel Aviv (La bohème), Arena of Avenches (La traviata, Barbiere di Siviglia, Aida),  National Opera House of Seoul (Falstaff, Puritani, Otello, Carmen, La traviata, La bohème, Macbeth, Samson et Dalila), Bunka Kaikan in Tokyo (La sonnambula, La bohème).

With Festival de la Musique in Strasbourg he conducted Verdi’s Requiem di Verdi. Among the orchestras he conducteds are: Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra of Radio Moscow, Budapest Philharmonic, Czech National Orchestra, KBS and Seoul Philharmonic of Seoul, Lousanne Symphonietta,  Kiev Philharmonic and many others, in concert halls like Alte Oper and Jarehunderthalle in Frankfurt, Philharmonie and Shauspielehause in Berlin, Tchaikovsky Hall in Moscow, Carnegie Hall in New York, G. Gould Auditorium it Toronto, Hermitage Theatre in S. Petersburg, Teatro de La Maestranza in Sevilla, Teatro de Bellas Artes in Mexico City, Lotte Concert Hall in Seoul etc.

He has worked with singers such Piero Cappuccili, Leo Nucci, Renato Bruson, Carlo Guelfi, Raina Kabaiwanska, Luis Alva, Nicola Martinucci, Giovanna Casolla, Katia Ricciarelli, Fiorenza Cossotto, Mariella Devia, Lando Bartolini, Gianfranco Cecchele, Jose Cura, Carlo Colombara, Ruggero Raimondi, Daniela Barcellona, Norma Fantini, Maria Jose' Montiel, Simone Piazzola, Maria Agresta, Veronica Simeoni, Ramon Vargas, etc.

Among the main soloits he worked with are: Igor Oistrakh, Aldo Ciccolini, Alicia de Larrocha, Paul Badura-Skoda, Olga Kern, Hansjorg Shellenberger, Rocco Filippini, Calogero Palermo, Joaquin Achucarro, Roberto Cappello, etc.

In 1996, after his debut in South Korea with the National premiere of Falstaff, he was appointed principal guest conductor of the Korean Symphony Orchestra in Seoul.

From 2000 to 2005 he was artistic director and chief conductor of the Orchestra Fondazione T. Schipa in Lecce; in 2004 he became artistic director of Teatro Greco in Lecce, where he conducted several operatic productions like Le villi, Il Trittico e Turandot, Un Viaggio a Reims, Fedora e Andrea Chénier, Aida, I due Foscari and Il corsaro (broadcasted by Rai, Italian television), Carmen and Adriana Lecouvreur.

From 2007 he is principal guest conductor at Teatro Lirico Sperimentale in Spoleto where he conducted titles like Un ballo in maschera, La bohème, Tosca, Madame Butterfly, La traviata, Il trovatore, Rigoletto, L'elisir d'amore.

From 2013 he is artistic director of Ksioc Opera Company International in Seoul.
In 2018 he was appointed chief conductor of Goyang Symphony Orchestra and New Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra.

His repertoire includes more than 50 opera titles and  and the complete symphonic works by Beethoven, Brahms, Schumann and Tchaikovsky, the main production of Mozart, Schubert, Bruckner, Mahler, Rachmaninov, Ravel, De Falla, Rimskj-Korsakov, Mussorgsky, Prokofev etc.

In 2003 he conducted the production of Turandot, staged by Zhang Yimou.

In 2006 he conducted La Sonnambula in tournée with Teatro Bellini of Catania in Japan.

From 2016 he conducted La clemenza di Tito, three productions of La traviata, three of Carmen, Don Giovanni, two of Don Pasquale, Le nozze di Figaro, tre of Il barbiere di Siviglia and L'elisir d'amore in Seoul; Carmen and La traviata at Vittorio Emanuele Theatre in Messina; Tosca, La traviata and La bohème with Teatro Lirico Sperimentale in Spoleto, the Bohème was performed in tournée in Japan. Furthermore, symphonic concerts at Art Center Music Hall, Lotte Concert Hall di Seoul, Aram Nuri Auditorium in Goyang and International Film Festival in Busan, among them Beethoven’s IX Symphony and Carmina Burana.

In 2020 and 2021: Tosca in Messina, Rigoletto, Aida, Carmen and Il barbiere di Siviglia at Art Center in Seoul; Madama Butterfly in Spoleto.

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