The true story
about my music...
Strange how life shows you, in its own way, what is the right direction and path
in order to give birth to your true inner self, even in a professional area.
It has happened to me about being a composer.
As a young student of the Music Academy of Torino, my home town in Italy, I have decided to become an organist and then an orchestra conductor. But before being able to write and play music properly I was already composing, dedicating to this activity quite a lot of time, and in such a way that my organ teacher soon got upset because my technical skills were not developing enough. He was absolutely right and I put my composition attempts on a break.
Already during my organ school years
orchestra conducting became slowly my new important focus
and I easily discovered that if I wanted to be a truly skilful conductor I was in need
to understand "how a composer is thinking" .
As a consequence, after my organ degree, I started in the same Academy my composition studies (that I have carried on together with my orchestra conducting training) but, still,
my own voice as a composer was very rarely heard outside of a narrow circle of friends.
Only after getting better acquainted with the composing process and after producing the official academic works I got interested in writing scores fully on my own,
and I finally decided to allocate part of the time of my artistic activity to composition.
I took the habit of writing music ideas on various sketchbooks,
playing or adjusting them in the evenings, at the piano...
But then, after moving my life permanently in northern Europe in 2016, came The North,
my North, with its spaces, voices, colours,
something that I did already meet before during my trips and holidays there...
And my own music has become, in a way, the voice of this personal and peculiar meeting,
as a concrete and essential part of my life.
I was astonished to hear how much it has shaped and it is shaping my inner creativity...
Enjoy!

My catologue for orchestra...
* La Leggenda di Thule (The Legend of Thule, 1999, rev. 2021)
for string orchestra and sea drum (or recorded tape)
YouTube link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-XpDjNzPLc
* Nummelan metsä (The woods of Nummela, 2013, rev. 2020)
for string orchestra
YouTube link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhQ0FSLSxpc
* Canto solo (Singing alone, 2022)
for string orchestra
YouTube link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXnPNxZSTIw
* Esimene lumi (First snow, 2024)
for string orchestra
* Kostab varjupaigast (Sounds from the shelter, 2025)
Concerto for Viola and orchestra
* Scherzino (2025)
for flute and string orchestra
...to be updated soon!
What's new now?

More than two months have passed since my last update.
During this time I was quite busy with the review of the Scherzino for flute and string orchestra and of my Viola Concerto, in order to make the last needed changings and to get ready scores and parts for the publishing company.
I have started to sketch the movement which will be paired with the Scherzino, but at the same time I got some new thoughts about the form of this two pieces together.
I have decided I will delete the titles of both pieces in such a way to leave to the performers more space for personal imagination, which will be recalled only by a new evocative title of the score, and not by the traditional titles associated to every single movement of it.
It will be very interesting then to discover how this important single-word title, which connect the two pieces to each other, will inspire the sound of the musicians during the concert. This word will be the key to "open" the sound poetically, to make it resonating in the concert space.
Every time different, every time bringing a new meaning to the written notes of the score.
Stay tuned ;)
(18.11.2025)
