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Biography
His meeting with Piero Rattalino was very profitable since this completed his musical training. He achieved success in more than 30 national and international music competitions, he started the concert career by performing in Italy, France, Germany, Spain, Russia, Romania, Hungary, U.S.A., Thailand, and China with the most famous orchestras such as the George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra of Bucharest, the Radio Orchestra of Bucharest, the Philharmonic Orchestra of Kiev, the Karlovy Vary Symfonic Orchestra, the Philharmonic Orchestra of Szeged, the Philharmonic Orchestra of Cluj, the Tulare County Symphony Orchestra of California, the Plainfield Symphony Orchestra, the Orquestra Sinfonica UANL of Mexico, the Orchestra Sinfonica del Teatro Bellini di Catania, the Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana, The Orchestra Filarmonica del Teatro Bellini, the Osaka Symphoniker, the Kioto Symphony and in prestigious halls such as the State Discotheque in Rome, the Massimo Bellini Theatre in Catania, the Sala delle Erbe in Milan, the Athenée Roman in Bucharest, the Chankaichek Theatre in Taipei, the Concert Hall in Kioto, the Archaic Hall of Amagasaki and the Symphony Hall in Osaka. On June ’99 he made his debut in a recital at the Carnegie Hall in New York obtaining a great success from both the audience and from the critics; appreciations extended even to his conductor career and chamber music activity that led him to work together with prestigious American ensembles such as the Ciompi String Quartet with which he is invited yearly to give a piano and chamber music specialization course at the Hunter College in New York, at the North Carolina University, at the Duke University of Durham, at the École Normale de Musique of Paris, at the Thessaloniki State Conservatory, at the Monterrey University in Mexico, at the West Chester University Philadelphia and at Chopin Academy in Warsaw where he also gives a Superior Music Course on the Concert for piano and orchestra. He is on the teaching staff for the main piano course at the Vincenzo Bellini’s conservatory in Catania and he’s frequently invited as a juror in international competitions.
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He studied music at the “Vincenzo Bellini” music
institute in Catania under the guidance of Agatella Catania, graduated in piano
performance with full marks, praise and honorable mention.