Born in 1975, he studied in Milan with Paola Coppi and graduated with full marks 'cum laude" at the 'G. Tartini" Conservatory', Trieste, in 1996. He was a pupil of Frederic Zigante at the Foundation Mozart in Lausanne, and studied with Oscar Ghiglia at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena and at the Musik-Akademie in Basel, where he got the Solistendiplom in 2000.

      The juries of several international competitions have acknowledged his merits. He won second prize at the first International Competition "Dc Bonis", Cosenza. In 1996 he won the first prize at the T.I.M in Rome and achieved the first prize and the special prize "R. Chiesa" at the twenty-first Gargnano International Competition. The following year he was awarded the second prize at the XLIII International Competition "Maria Canals" in Barcelona, and the first prize at the thirtieth International Competition "Citta di Alessandria -M. Pittaluga". In 1999 he got the ARAM prize in Rome and the first prize at the XX International Competition 'M. Giuliani" in Ban. The same year he was the first Italian guitarist to be awarded the first prize at the prestigious seventeenth Guitar Foundation of America Competition in Charleston, SC, which included a recording on the NAXOS and Mel Bay record labels and a long solo concert tour touching over 50 cities of USA and Canada.

      He has toured Europe, America, and Africa as a soloist and with orchestra. He recorded the concert works of the Spanish composer Dionisio Aguado (1784-1849) (CD 5TR33563), and a CD dedicated to the Italian composer Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (Escarraman op. /77 and other works, NAXOS 8.554831).