He studied musicology at the Faculty of Musicology of the University of Pavia, where he graduated with a dissertation on Wilhelm Furtwängler, at the Universität der Künste in Berlin, obtaining a Ph.D. in musicology, and at the “Giuseppe Verdi” Conservatory in Milan. In terms of conservatory studies, he also obtained diplomas in clarinet, saxophone, composition. During annual and multi-year courses of high specialization he studied in the classes of renowned artists (Antony Pay, Alexandre Brussilovsky, Frederick Hemke, Jean-Marie Londeix). Outside of musical training, he studied German and physics at the University of Berlin and studied engineering at the Politecnico di Milano, where he recently obtained a master’s degree in teaching technologies.
As an instrumentalist he has given concerts since 1983 in various European locations especially in chamber ensembles, from duo to quintet, and to a lesser extent as a soloist and soloist with orchestra. Among other things, as a chamber musician he has been a member of several formations (Quintetto Agorà, Trio Spohr, Trio Biedermeier, Cluster Ensemble, Trio Eler…) and has collaborated with pianists Charles Hanviland and Benedetto Matteo Spina. With the Agorà Quintet he recorded the Quintet KV 581 for clarinet and W strings.A. Mozart (New Music, 1991). As an orchestral instrumentalist, over a period of about twenty years, he has temporarily collaborated with some symphonic and lyrical formations (Orchestra del Teatro Regio di Torino, Orchestra internazionale dell’Arbeitskreis Musik in der Jugend …).
Since 1986 he has been teaching musical instrument in state educational institutions, chair holder; from 2004 to 2009 he taught saxophone and clarinet at the Advanced Course of Musical Instrument in Biella, an experimental public institute for upper secondary school students, of which in the same period he was also responsible for teaching and artistic plans. For over eighteen years he was the holder of the teaching of music history at the Musical Institute “L. Perosi” of Biella, where he was also a professor of clarinet and saxophone; subsequently, from 2004 to 2009, he was professor of music history and elements of musical analysis at the CSSM of Biella; since 2013 he has been teaching music history at the Liceo musicale statale “F. Casorati” of Novara.Between 2004 and 2006 he collaborated on a contract, as a supervising teacher, at the State Conservatory “A. Vivaldi” of Alessandria as part of the two-year experimental specialist of second level instrumental teaching. In the academic years 2008/09 and 2009/10 he was adjunct professor of General Methodology of instrumental teaching at the Conservatory “G. Verdi” of Turin and was a supervising professor at the Conservatory “G. Cantelli” of Novara as part of the second level two-year course for the training of musical instrument teachers. Between 2014 and 2016 he was coordinator tutor of the TFA at the Conservatory of Turin and adjunct professor of Methodology of instrumental teaching for winds at the Conservatory “G. Verdi” of Milan.

Already a member of the Italian Society of Musicology and of the Wilhelm-Furtwängler-Gesellschaft in Berlin, he carries out musicological research oriented mainly to themes of romantic compositional aesthetics, post-romantic and orchestral conducting in the twentieth century, as well as in the area of functional and technological strategies for instrumental teaching. Journalist, since 1988 he has been working as a music critic and editor: collaborations with Italian and foreign newspapers, specialized and not (Das Orchester, The European Gazette of Musical Competitions, La Gazzetta della Musica, European Bulletin of Music Competitions, Eco di Biella, Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung …). On the themes of instrumental teaching he has published several texts. Author of a significant amount of articles and essays of a musicological nature, he has published the books Brahms’ Ebony (1996), Wilhelm Furtwängler through letters (2004), The Lied between poetic roots and transcendent visions (2009), Notes on General Methodology of instrumental teaching (2009) … In the series “I Quaderni del CSSM” he published Lineamenti di storia delle notazioni musicali in occidente (2004), Le principali forme compositive strumentali nella produzione di W.A. Mozart e dintorni (2005), La didattica della musica d’insieme nelle scuole secondarie ad indirizzo musicale (2008)…