Multifaceted Musician and Performer

Trained as a singer of Renaissance music under Claudia Carbi, Wolfgang Fromme, and Gabriel Garrido, as an actor-marionettist with the Teatro Vagante company, and as a baroque flutist at the Palermo Conservatory of Music, he later developed a variety of musical interests in world music and improvised music while also learning the guitar as an accompanying instrument and various wind instruments. He also studied composition privately, setting a variety of opera librettos to music.

These interests led him to participate in and create various musical groups during 39 years of professional activity. He has been a member of the music group Agricantus and founded the Cuarteto Palermo, Palatinum Trio, Mokarta Quartet, the Palermo Band, Faust Group, etc. He has participated in some of the most important jazz festivals with Giorgio Occhipinti’s “Hereo Nonetto” group. He also collaborates with a variety of artists and composers in the field of contemporary music and was among the first to spread the Gardelian-style “Tango Cancion” in Italy. He lives in Palermo, with frequent forays in Italy and abroad.

“Non basta avere la voce più melodiosa per intonare un tango. No.
Bisogna anche sentirlo. Bisogna viverne lo spirito.”

“It is not enough to have the most melodious voice to sing a tango. No.
One must also feel it. You have to live the spirit of it.”
Carlos Gardel