Born in September 1984 he graduated in horn in 2003 with honors at the Musical Institute V. Bellini in Catania under the guidance of Antonino Manuli. He has attended master classes with great teachers including Alessio Allegrini, Luciano Giuliani, Dale Clevenger, Stefan Dohr, Hans Pizka, Michael Hoeltzel, Loris Antiga, Guido Corti, David Johnson, Jonathan Williams. In 2005 he was admitted and studied in Germany at the Hochschule fur Musik in Freiburg under the guidance of Maestro Bruno Schneider. At the age of 20 years he won the audition for horn at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, with he worked as 2nd horn for more than three years in annual contract. He has collaborates with various opera companies and symphony orchestras of the most representative in Italy: La Scala in Milan, La Scala Philharmonic, Cameristi della Scala, Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Teatro San Carlo in Naples, Teatro Massimo Bellini in Catania, Italian Youth Orchestra, Teatro Lirico di Spoleto, Orchestra of Italian Switzerland in Lugano, Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto, Orchestra Sindonica Abruzzese, Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra, Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari. He has played under the direction of the great masters as Georges Pretre, Daniel Barenboim, Lorin Maazel, Zubin Mehta, Pierre Boulez, Riccardo Chailly, Daniele Gatti, Gustavo Dudamel, Valery.Gergiev, Kurt Masur, Semyon Bychkov, Sir Gardiner Gianandrea Noseda. After a selection at the Istituto Musicale Bellini as best student at 19 is selected to perform the Concerto for Horn and Orchestra KV 412 by WA Mozart with the orchestra of the Teatro Massimo Bellini in Catania. He has participated in several tour in England, Ireland, Japan, Ghana and USA. He was invited to take part in the concert of the ensemble "The Horns of Scale" at the Teatro alla Scala. In December 2010 he was invited to participate in the competition for horn at the Berlin Philharmonic positioning in the semifinals and in October 2011 he was selected by Maestro Zubin Metha for 2nd horn at the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino resulting first winner. He 'was artistic director and creator of the project Abreu called "The Young ... the other voice of music" in the towns of Viagrande, Trecastagni and Nicolosi in the province of Catania, forming an orchestra of 60 children. To April 2013 he was invited by Alessio Allegrini to play with the Human Rights Orchestra at the Lucerne Festival. He is currently third horn with at the Teatro Massimo Bellini in Catania and regularly collaborates with the Teatro alla Scala in Milan and the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino. Also from January 2015 is Professor of Horn at the Institute of Musical Studies V. Bellini in Catania.
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