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     Born in Feltre (Italy) in 1973, started playing guitar aged 9. In his early years he played in almost every club in northeast Italy developing different styles, from rock to pop, funk, jazz. He performed in jazz festivals with some of Italy’s finest musicians, Marco Tamburini, Massimo Manzi, Mark Abrhams and Mark Smith, always with positive reviews in local and national newspapers, winning two Awards at Umbria Jazz Clinics of 1996 and 1997.
     In 1999 he moved to Boston to attend Berklee College of Music, on a scholarship program, where he studied under the direction of Mick Goodrick, Hal Crook, Brett Willmott and Dave Samuels. In addition to playing in the Boston area as a freelance musician, he performed in Washington DC with the Jazz/Rock Ensemble, led by the Yo Team, for the Charles Shwab Corp. and at the BPC in Boston. In 2001 he graduated with a Degree "Magna cum laude" in Professional Music at Berklee College, furthermore being selected for the Betty Carter's jazz Ahead, in Washington, DC.

   His work as a session player is quite vast, ranging from playing and producing countless demos, to credits in albums to be found in the shelves around the world.
     He has been performing with, and leading as musical director, numerous RCCL orchestras, comping for celebrities from the sixties like The Platters, The Coasters, Bobby Arvon, The Diamonds, Vegas-Broadway entertainers like Tony Tillman, Kenny James, Hal Fraiser, Lorna Luft, Ben Vereen, Susan Anton and Dominique Allen. Furthermore his work entailed musical theatre style production reviews, encompassing shows such as “Smokey Joe’s Café”, “We Will Rock You”, “Starlight Express”, “Grease” and “Rent”. His focus is now writing, producing and performing music in different settings and styles, working on the release of his first album.

 

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