He was born and trained in Rome, where he studied piano, choral singing, conducting, composition and experimental composition at the Conservatorio di Santa Cecilia. He has collaborated with the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma since 1984 as maestro sostituto and, from 2004, has been active within the Artistic Directorate of the Foundation. As a conductor, he furthered his training in Rome at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia and in Milan with I Pomeriggi Musicali under Gianluigi Gelmetti. From the 2012/13 season he has collaborated with the Orchestra of the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma in the Chamber Concerts at the Teatro Nazionale and at the Sala Accademica of the Conservatorio di Santa Cecilia, conducting works by, among others, Poulenc, Hindemith and Britten, as well as L’histoire du soldat with Peppe Barra. For the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma he has also conducted at the Terme di Caracalla Turandot (2015), the recording of the Adagietto from Mahler’s Fifth Symphony for Roland Petit’s La rose malade (2015), The Carnival of the Animals by Saint-Saëns, Nabucco (2016) and Tosca (2017); at the Teatro Costanzi Swan Lake (2016 and 2019), The Sleeping Beauty (2017), Tosca (2017 and 2019), La traviata (2017), Suite en Blanc (2018), Philip Glass Evening (2019), and in 2020 the Jerome Robbins Evening as well as, in live streaming, the world premiere of the ballet Pandora, set to music by Adams. At the Teatro Nazionale he conducted Lo scoiattolo in gamba by Nino Rota (2017), The Little Sweep by Britten (2018), and the world premiere of Giovanni Sollima’s opera Acquaprofonda (2021). Active in the “OperaCamion” project since its inception in 2016, aimed at decentralising the Theatre’s activities, last summer he served as musical director for productions of Il barbiere di Siviglia and Tosca, both performed with the Orchestra of the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma across the city of Rome.