He completed his musical studies at the “G. Rossini” Conservatory in Pesaro, graduating in 1988 with highest honors and distinction in piano. He subsequently obtained a diploma in orchestral conducting at the “Reale Accademia Filarmonica” in Bologna. A faculty member at the Accademia d’Arte Lirica in Osimo since 1994, he has accumulated extensive experience in the operatic field, performing in concerts or theatrical collaborations with internationally renowned artists such as Joan Ponce, Renato Bruson, Marcelo Alvarez, Giorgio Merighi, Gianfranco Cecchele, Valeria Esposito, Amarilli Nizza, and Dimitra Theodossiou, and with many conductors including Riccardo Muti, Bruno Bartoletti, Giuliano Carella, Riccardo Frizza, Julian Kovatchev, Paolo Arrivabeni, Bruno Campanella, and Francesco Lanzillotta.
He has collaborated as pianist and stage musical director with major theatres and festivals, among them Le Muse in Ancona, the Teatro Verdi in Sassari, the Teatro Regio in Parma, the Teatro Comunale in Piacenza, the Teatro Comunale in Ferrara, La Fenice in Venice, the Ravenna Festival, the Festival Pergolesi Spontini, the Teatre Principal in Palma de Mallorca (Spain), and the Teatro Campoamor in Oviedo (Spain).
In 2011 he was invited by the Bolshoi National Theatre in Minsk (Belarus) to prepare singers for Rossini’s opera Il barbiere di Siviglia.
From 1994 to 2004 he collaborated with Showa University of Music in Tokyo as musical coach for opera productions, and currently collaborates with Senzoku Gakuen College of Music, also in Tokyo.
Since 2014 he has been a regular collaborator of the Ravenna Festival.
In 1996 he made his conducting debut with Mozart’s Krönungsmesse, which was followed by further concerts and opera productions. In 2008 he conducted a concert in Paris with the Spontini Wind Orchestra, closing the celebrations marking the two hundredth anniversary of the premiere in the French capital of Gaspare Spontini’s La Vestale.
During the 2009 opera season at the Teatro Verdi in Sassari, he conducted Niccolò Piccinni’s opera La Cecchina.
He has made numerous appearances in Japan as a conductor; in 2010 he led three operatic concerts with the Senzoku University Symphony Orchestra.
In 2011 he conducted Gaetano Donizetti’s operas Il giovedì grasso and L’elisir d’amore at the Maeda Hall in Kawasaki (Japan), where he returned in 2013 to conduct Mozart’s Don Giovanni.
In 2014 he was invited by the Opéra National de Lorraine in Nancy (France) as assistant conductor for the world premiere of Giorgio Battistelli’s opera Il medico dei pazzi.
In June 2015 he conducted Carmen — Ri/leggere l’opera at the Teatro La Nuova Fenice in Osimo, the world premiere of a new reading of Bizet’s opera with an ensemble arrangement by Alfonso Martone.