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?

After my Viola Concerto, while working on the Lennart Meri's book Hõbevalge (Silver White) and improving my skill with the Estonian language, I found some spare time to complete today a Scherzino for flute and string orchestra.
The main idea jumped in my mind during my August holidays in the Estonian countryside, while walking the dogs in the woods, and it ended up as a sketch on my notebook without caring too much of it.
But I was indeed going back a bit too much to these notes of mine to truly believe it was something not so important, bound to fade away slowly during the daily life...
And here we are then, already working on the revision of the score, preparing the materials for the print!
The present Scherzino will be paired with another piece, Pastorale, in such a way to have two movements for the same orchestra forces but with different character and speed. For the performance sake, the new slower piece I am going to write will take its place before the faster Scherzino...
The Viola Concerto was truly a turning point in many aspects, unbelievable! The eyesight and the handwriting now are surely better, "clever and skillful" than before, so there is no doubt that I am on the right path.
What's new now?
We'll get in touch ;)
(03.09.2025)
