Born in Salerno in 1995, he began studying the horn at the age of eleven at the N. Monterisi middle school with Antonio Proto. He has taken masterclasses with the leading Italian horn players and teachers, among them Luca Benucci, Guido Corti, Roberto Miele, Luciano Giuliani, Carmine Pinto and Paolo Armato, and has also studied with horn players of international standing such as Radovan Vlatković (with whom he studied for a year on a scholarship at the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste), Jonathan Williams, Dale Clevenger and Frøydis Ree Wekre. In 2010 he took third prize at the “Federico II di Svevia” international competition in Sannicandro di Bari; in 2013 and 2014 he took part in the “Lorenzo Borghi” national competition in Leghorn, winning second prize in 2013 and third in 2014. In 2016 he was placed second on the list of successful candidates in the audition at the “Teatro Massimo” in Palermo for third horn with section duties, with 8.28 out of 10. In 2017 he passed the audition at the “Teatro Petruzzelli” in Bari for third horn with first and section duties (21 out of 30) and for fourth horn with second and section duties (21 out of 30). In the same year he passed the audition at the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome for second horn with fourth and doubling on first, with 28.5 out of 30, placing first. In 2019 he passed the audition at “I Pomeriggi Musicali” in Milan for first horn with third and section duties, placing second; and, again in 2019, the audition at the “Teatro Petruzzelli” in Bari for third horn with first duties (27 out of 30), placing first, and for fourth horn with second and section duties (25 out of 30), placing second. He reached the final and was commended twice (in 2019 and 2020) in the audition for first horn at the Teatro Lirico Giuseppe Verdi in Trieste. He has worked with In 2021 he was appointed to a permanent post at the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome as second horn.