Works

He is graduated in philosophy at Bologna University. Self-taught, he studied piano and became conversant with the great classical and modern composers by listening to and studying their scores.
After meeting Armando Gentilucci, under whom he studied for a year at the Istituto Musicale Pareggiato "A. Peri" of Reggio Emilia, he began to study composition with Salvatore Sciarrino in 1979. In 1982 he obtained his diploma in choral music amd choral conducting.
After initial and fragmentary attempts at composition, he began to write his first serious works in 1980. In 1982 his composition for two flutes and piano, Diario, was included in the Opera Prima Festival of Venice and in 1984 In quella vibrazione (for clarinet, viola and piano) won the Composition Competition of the Città di Castello "Festival delle Nazioni". He also won the competition for participation in the International Gaudeamus Musicweek of Amsterdam in 1986 with L'ombra dell'angelo (for flute) and, in 1992, the International Composition Competition of Vienna with Primavera dell'anima (for orchestra); the latter work was performed the same year by the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester, conductor Claudio Abbado, during the Wien Modern Festival.
The musical radio play Donna di dolori (on text by Patrizia Valduga), commissioned by RAI Radio Tre, was given in preview at the Acquario Romano in 1994 and broadcast the following year.
His first "one-act music drama" Un beau jour on texts by Samuel Beckett was produced at the Ferentino (Frosinone) Europa Festival in 1997.
His works have been performed at various festivals of contemporary music, including: Festival Ensemblia (Mönchengladbach), Rassegna di Nuova Musica (Rome), Musikprotokoll (Graz), Aspekte (Salzburg), Festival Spazio-Musica (Cagliari), Antidogma Musica (Turin), Rassegna di Nuova Musica (Macerata), Wien Modern (Vienna), Venice Biennial, Milano-Musica Festival, etc. Numerous works have also been performed in Italy, Netherlands, Germany, USA, Japan, Korea, Mexico and Australia.