bio

He has been given many awards in a plenty of piano contests, first of all the “Prokofiev award” within the International Piano Competition Ibla Grand Prize 1992.

During his academic music studies he developed interest in other forms of musical expression, like jazz, experimental, rock and others.

He has been playing as sideman in different music contest and jazz festivals with: Dave Liebman, Dusko Goycovich, Eliot Zigmund, Bill Moring,  Brad Wheeler, Joy Garrison, Pietro Tonolo, Stefano D'anna, Gianni Basso, Gegè Telesforo, Maurizio Giammarco, Marco Tamburini, Gigi Cifarelli, Pietro Leveratto, Pietro Ciancaglini, Fabrizio Bosso, Rosario Giuliani, Jean-loup Longnon, Gianluca Petrella, Francesco Cusa, Cristoph Monniot, Rosario Giuliani, Enzo Randisi, Gianni Gebbia, Giuseppe Milici, Pavel Smetacek and many others.

He has been playing as pianist of the “Orchestra Jazz Siciliana” with musicians like Michael Torke, Michael Mantler, Toots Thielemans, Diane Shuure, Arturo Sandoval, Bill Russo, Miky Howard, Bob Mintzer and Jack Walrath.

His actual projects are: Hector Mann Music Crew (with Francesco Guaiana and Marko Bonarius) - with whom wins the first price at V international silent film festival with live music "Strade del cinema 2006" -, Nursery four  (with Marko Bonarius and Francesco Cusa), Palermo Art Ensemble Quartet (with Massimo Patti, Giovanni Apprendi and Gaspare Palazzolo) and Flow Quartet (with Fabrizio Brusca, Gabrio Bevilacqua, Fabrizio Giambanco).

In 2008 he played at the Italian institute of Culture of New York and with the project called Accabbanna he has played in Umbria jazz 2004, Montreal jazz festival 2006, Siena jazz 2005-2006-2007, Festival Internacional jazz Barcellona 2006, Zsàmbeck jazz open 2003, Baku Jazz Festival 2006 and many others.

He is currently pianist-keyboardist of Ivan Segreto's new band, teaches music in Palermo and composes for various ensemble.