He graduated in clarinet performance with the highest marks and soon took part in major international competitions in Genoa, Rome, Palmi, Ancona, Turin, Stresa, Martigny, Colmar, and Paris. At 20 years of age he was appointed first clarinet soloist of the Orchestra Sinfonica della RAI di Torino and the Philharmonic in the same city, a post he held continuously until 1994 and, a decade later, in the Orchestra of the Fondazione Arena di Verona.
He has taught at conservatories and music schools and given master classes in Italy, France, Spain and Canada, as well as taking part in many concerts and recordings of chamber music.
He has collaborated with the greatest conductors and composers of our time, including Sir Georg Solti, Leonard Bernstein, James Levine, Mstislav Rostropovich, Lorin Maazel, Riccardo Muti, Wolfgang Sawallich, Peter Maria Giulini, Zubin Mehta, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Luciano Berio, Pierre Boulez.
He has performed at prestigious international festivals such as the Venice Biennale or Festival Aix-en-Provence, and in the concert halls of cities such as Rome, Naples, Padua, Verona, Monaco, Trieste, Turin, Zagreb, St. Petersburg, Hamilton, Bangkok, performing works by Mozart, Salieri, Donizetti, Mercadante, Ponchielli, Weber, Rossini, Strauss, Bruch, Debussy, Copland,Berio, Bernstein, Shaw and the first performances of concertos by Vacchi, Colla, Galante, and Bacalov.
His recent successes include playing with the New England Symphony at Carnegie Hall, with the Sudecka Philharmonic in Krakow, the Beijing Philharmonic Orchestra, the Philharmonic Orchestra of Toulon, the Orchestra Estado of Mexico and the Athens State Orchestra, the Sofia Philharmonic, in Jerusalem, Lisbon and Belgrade, the Israel Raanana Symphonette, the Kiev Philharmonic, the Montreal Chamber Orchestra and the Camerata Bohemica Prague, and the SFO Toronto and Württembergische Philharmonic. Recent performances include Carnegie Hall and the Lincoln Center in New York, the international festivals in Avignon, Prague, Taipei, Budapest, Montevideo, Nancy, Bratislava, Stockholm, St. Gallen, Zurich, and appearances on several stages in Italy.
