Something about me!

I ran every day, I trained at the sports centre or among the trees of the Cimini Hills. I dedicated my spare time to painting. But eventually I chose music.

Today, I still run as often as I can, the feeling of the body that shifts the air with its movements is invigorating, as much as having an endless variety of colours to create on white canvas.

However, all of this converged into music, “every violin has got a soul and also wood can breathe”; sounds are colours painting the air around me and spreading in concentric circles.

I still remember... the clomp on the wooden stage of the theatre and the dusty smell of the scarlet red curtain, the wait, the time suspended between the dark silent auditorium and the harsh light on the fingerboard, the four strings gleaming.

I stroke up and everything came alive with colours and vibrations...

The surprise of applause, thunderous, and my first bow at 8... definitely flamboyant in a red chequered dress, tailored to make me look chubbier, considering my glaring leanness.

Since then, always: every performance retains that primeval taste, the same energy and the wonderful joy that revives and rays out from inside every single time.

It was the “Teatro dell’Unione” in Viterbo, the city where my story began.

They say all the world’s a stage, and my life always changed on stage.

In the Teatro Coliseo in Buenos Aires, during a tour in Argentina, I was studying on stage believing that the theatre was empty; instead, sitting in the auditorium, there was Salvatore Accardo, and thanks to that unexpected audition I managed to be admitted to Stauffer, his academy, and to play with his orchestra.

Freshly graduated at the Santa Cecilia academy and conservatory in Rome, I had the opportunity to progress as a professional playing both as concertmaster and as soloist at the Caio Melisso Theatre and the Teatro Nuovo (Mozart, Vivaldi, Sarasate) in Spoleto, whose magical atmosphere left its mark on my life. I worked with conductors such as Umberto Benedetti Michelangeli, De Bernard, Spiros Argiris, and it was in a theatre that I received the favourable result to my audition in Germany.

"L'ammiro per le sue magnifiche qualità musicali, violinistiche e professionali."
                                                                    Umberto Benedetti Michelangeli

Then, at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, I met the Maestro Riccardo Muti. The chance to perform both as concertmaster and in leading roles represented a real life experience as well as a musical one, allowing me to work with a lot of great musicians (Sawallisch, Sinopoli, Rostropovich, Chung, Gergiev, among others).

Since I was a child, I had the invaluable privilege to associate with A-list musicians, including F. Ajo, G. Zhislin, L. Kaplan, S. Accardo, B. Antonioni, who helped me growing, sometimes beyond “fingerings”, and I was educated to cherish music as the opportunity to exchange emotions, affections and knowledge.
U. de Carlo and Arrigo Pelliccia were my first and fundamental musicians, those who made a violinist out of me and with whom I shared the wonder of my first sounds.

"Straordinaria vitalità e grande capacità comunicativa, altissimo il livello musicale e violinistico." 
                                                   L. Kaplan (senior violin professor Julliard School - New York)

I participated and I was rewarded in national and international contests, but I learnt that studying is not for standing out but for increasing and refining communication levels with oneself and with those around us. Music has no gender; it’s shape, colour, magic, soul and idea... in music there is no discrimination, racism or prejudice, there is no affiliation, except to feeling and communication in order to create new “meeting dimensions”.

"Spiccata personalità e altissimo livello tecnico e musicale."
                                                                     M. De Bernard

Meeting and empathy are of the greatest importance in teaching, too; I’ve been lecturing for many years, I’m a teacher at the Conservatory in Rome and I am also invited to hold master’s degree courses in Italy and abroad.

I undoubtedly inherited my parents’ (school teachers, not musicians) disposition for teaching.

Teaching is a huge display of generosity, competence, experience and passion to share with one’s students.

Today, I play in Italy and abroad in the most prestigious halls and theatres, as a soloist and with different combinations, from the most traditional ones with piano or guitar to unusual ones, i.e. with harp, and I fulfil various “meeting dimensions” by orchestrating with other arts: dance, images, paintings.

The prominence of music goes beyond “individual performances” and I precisely serve this “beyond”.

 

 

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