CURRICULUM VITAE

He was born in Milan and he studied singing under Evelyn Tubb in England, Margaret Hayward, Paolo Vaglieri and Bianca Maria Casoni in Milan.

He worked with ensembles like English Baroque Soloists, Il Giardino Armonico, Il Complesso Barocco, The Consort of Musicke, Ensemble Baroque de Limoges, Venice Baroque Orchestra, Ensemble Aurora, Il Concerto Italiano, Europa Galante, Capella Savaria, performing in the most famous international festivals of Ancient Music and Opera Theatres like Holland Festival Oude Muziek, Festival van Vlaanderen, York Early Music Festival, Festival International de Musique Baroque Beaune, Brugge Festival, Opéra de Lyon, Musica e Poesia a San Maurizio in Milan, Berliner Tage fur Alte Musiek, London Queen Elizabeth Hall, Wiener Konzerthaus, Berkeley Festival.

He begun to sing Opera in 1993 at Teatro La Fenice in Venice in Traetta's Buovo Dantona under the direction of  Alan Curtis. Then he sang and recorded the role of the Nutrice in Monteverdi's Incoronazione di Poppea conducted by  John Eliot Gardiner (Cremona, Rome, Vien, London).

He took part to the John Eccles' Semele (Mayfield Opera Festival), Peri's Euridice and Monteverdi's Orfeo (Teatro Regio di Torino) and Marco Marazzoli's Capriccio (San Francisco).

In summer 1996 he took part to the French tour with The Nederlandse Bachvereniging singing Bach's Magnificat and A+ Messe under Gustav Leonhardt. Then he sang for the Settimane Bachiane with Il Giardino Armonico and Robert King. In 1997 he sang Bach's B-Messe all around Holland with the Nederlandse Bachverenging conducted by Ivan Fischer.

In the winter 1998 he was Athamas in Handel's Semele for Vlamse Opera conducted by Marc Minkowski and directed by Robert Carsen.

In 1999 he sang Handel's Israele in Egitto in Copenhagen, Stradella's Lo Schiavo Liberato at Modena Theatre and Liegi, La Morte di Adone with Venice Baroque Orchestra under Andrea Marcon.

In 2000 he performed Bach's Cantatas inn New York and Boston under Gustav Leonhardt, Bach's Tilge, Hochster, meine Sunden with Andrea Marcon, Stradella's Il Barcheggio in Rome and Milan with Ensemble Pian & Forte, Handel's Siroe for Teatro La Fenice conducted by Andrea Marcon directed by Jorge Lavelli.

Last year he took part to Monteverdi's Incoronazione conducted by Rinaldo Alessandrini, a tour and recording of Stradella's San Giovanni Battista with Claudio Astronio, a Spanish tour of Vivaldi's Gloria and Magnificat conducted by Alessandrini, deutch cantatas arias and duets from Handel's operas with Fantazyas, a vocal and instrumental ensemble that he also conducts.

In his career he recorded with: DG Archiv, Virgin Classics, Harmonia Mundi France, Opus 111, Nuova Era, Arcana, Glossa, Bongiovanni, Symphonia, Stradivarius, Arts, Tactus, Naxos and for many European issuing broadcasts and television emittents.