Born in 1957, a biologist "graduated" in classic guitar, is today a performer and composer. He teaches music theory, harmony, ensemble music, and guitar at the Centro Jazz Torino and he is a professor of jazz guitar at the Academy of Music "Vivaldi", Alessandria . Nicknamed the "six-string-Orchestra" for his dynamic view of sound and guitar touch. He intensely studied the tone of the amplified classic guitar sound exploring diverse music fields like jazz, contemporary, bossa-nova, mediterranean music and Bachiano counterpoint.