Qualifications and musical training

1983
Diploma in Choir Music and Conduction (M° Gotti) at the G.B.Martini Conservatoire in Bologna

1980-1986
Course in Electronic Music (M° Fugazza) and Jazz (M° Ballotta) at the G.B. Martini Conservatoire in Bologna

1985
Diploma in Band Instrumentation (M° Giacomini)  at the G.B.Martini Conservatoire in Bologna

1987
Diploma in Composition (M° Vandor) at the G.B.Martini Conservatoire in Bologna

Diploma in Professional Training for Choir Conductors at the Fondazione Guido d'Arezzo (M° Clemencic and M° Gabbiani)

1988
Degree in Philosophy (Prof. Di Benedetto and Prof. Santucci), at the Università degli Studi in Bologna

Diploma of “Export of Music” in Composition  given by the Commission of the  European Community

1989
Diploma in Composition at the Accademia Filarmonica in Bologna

1990
Diploma in Orchestra Conducting (M° Tarchetti) at the G. Rossini Conservatoire in Pesaro

1992
Diploma of High Specialization in Orchestra Conducting (M° Renzetti) at the Accademia Musicale Pescarese  

Further studies

Composition

1986
Participation in the “International Ferienkurse fur Neue Musik” in Darmstadt, Germany

Specialization Corse in Composition at the GAMO in Florence (M° Gentilucci)  

1987
Seminars in Composition and contemporary instrumental techniques at the Scuola Civica di Musica in Milano (M° Huber, M° Artaud)

Seminars in contemporary instrumental techniques – SIEM Bologna (Anna Maria Morini, Flute; Boris Porena, Piano; Enzo Porta, Violin)  

Specialization Corse in Composition at the GAMO in Florence (M° Clementi)

Course in Musical Analysis at the Centre Acanthes in Avignone (M° Messiaen)

Seminars in “Semiology and contemporary instrumental technique” organized by SIMC at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena

1987-88
Specialization Course in Composition at the Associazione Nuovi Spazi Sonori in Brescia (M° Rotondi)

Specialization Courses in Composition at the Civica Scuola di Musica in Milan” (M° Donatoni, M° Grisey)

1988
Seminar on “Composing today” at the Scuola di Musica in Fiesole (M° Manzoni)

Corse in Composition during the “Festival delle Nazioni di Musica da camera”, Città di Castello (M° Sciarrino)

1993
Seminar on “Live Electronic Technique in Luigi Nono’s music of the 1980’s” (M° Vidolin)

1996
Participation in the Master class for music professionals “The performance entreprise”, held by Sergio Escobar, Teatro Carlo Felice (Genoa). Accademia musicale “W.Kandinskij” (Avellino)

1998
Scholarship for the participation in the courses on Sofia Gubaidulina’s music at the Centre Acanthes in Avignone

2001
Course in Sound Technique at the “A.Buzzolla”  State Conservatoire of Music in Adria ( Roberto Furlan, Engineer)

Participation in the Masterclass “Music in massmedia mechanisms” , television, radio, record making (M° Peppe Vessicchio) during the “Festival Internazionale A.F. Lavagnino”, Gavi (AL)

2006
Certified Course of MIDI Programming and Virtual Orchestration, Roma, Istituto Italiano per le tecnologie applicate alla Musica (IITM) (M° Silvio Relandini, Maurizio Gabrieli, Antonio Genovino).

Orchestra Conducting

1981
Participation in the Specialization Course for young Orchestra Conductors, at the Ente Autonomo Teatro Comunale in Bologna (M° Delman)

1986-87
Seminars on Phenomenology of Music, “Musicien Ensemble” in Paris (M° Celibidache)

1987
Specialization Course in Orchestra Conducting- Luglio Musicale in Lugano (M° Schumacher)

1988
Course in Analysis and Orchestra Conduction at the Centre Acanthes in Avignone (M° Boulez, Prof. Nattiez)

Specialization Course in Orchestra Conducting during the International Bartok Seminar” in Szombathely, Hungary (M° Eotvos)

1989
Participation in the Seminar in Orchestra Conducting at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome (M° Bernstein)

Course in Orchestra Conducting organized by the Accademia Musicale Ottorino Respighi, Assisi (M° Nagy, M° Atzmon)

Course in Orchestra Conducting at the “Internazionale Sommerakademie der Hochschule Mozarteum” in Salzburg (M° Gielen)  

1990
Course in Orchestra Conducting specializing in Opera Repertoire (M° Cattini) and in soloist accompaniment (M° Marvulli) at the Accademia Musicale Pescarese

Training Course for Assistant Maestro organized by the Istituto Musicale F. Manzato and by the Ente Autonomo teatro Comunale in Treviso (M° Ballarin)  

Participation in Orchestra Conducting durino the Festival Internazionale in Terrazzano (M° Bellugi)

1990-91
Participation in Conducting Course at the “Accademia Musicale Ottorino Respighi” in Rome (M° Acél/Nagy) and in Assisi (M° Atzmon/Erdély)

1992
Participation as an Orchestra Conductor in the Workshop in Zlín (Czechoslovakia) with the Bohuslav Martinu Orchestra (M° Starnberg)

1993
Conducting Course with Oradea State Philharmonic Orchestra (Romania) (M° Emil Simon)
Participation in the "II International Masterclass for Conductors" with Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra, Olomouc (Czech Rep.)

1994
Participation in the "II International Masterclass for Conductors" with Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra, Olomouc (Czech Rep.)


Choral Music

1984
Training Course in Conduction and Interpretation at the Accademia Musicale Pescarese (M° Couraud)

Seminar in Analysis and Choral Conducting at the “Società Piccoli Cantori” in Turin (M° Couraud)

1986
Course in Conduction and Interpretation at the “J.S. Bach Akademie” in Stuttgard (M° Rilling)

1988
Seminar in Interpretation and Choral Conducting “Church polyphonic music during  Palestrina’s age” organized by “Asolo Musica” – Trento (M° Conci)

Musicology

1981-85
Participation in the Musicological Courses at the Centro Studi Ars Nova in Certaldo (Prof. Cattin, Gallo, Pirrotta, von Fischer, Ziino)

“The 26 Panciatichian Code”
“Church and secular music in Italy in the early 1400s”
“Guillaume Dufay”
“Troubadors and Trouvères – Ars Antiqua – Le Roman de Fauvel”

1983
AMIS Course in Musicology at the Music Conservatoire in Adria (RO): “The Age of Legrenzi and Cavalli”  

Music Didactics

1987
Seminars in Music Didactics, SIEM, Bologna: “The training of the ear for music” (M° Piazza). “ Jacques Dalcroze’s rhytmics” (prof. Di Segni Jaffè)

“The voice”, stage directed by L. Flaszen, Teatro Laboratorio in Breslavia (Poland). Associazione “I Rumori”, Bologna

Seminar in Bali Theatre, Dance and Music (E. Masseroli) at the Teatro Ridotto in Bologna

Seminar in Percussions according to the “Parcustra” method , Les Percussions de Strasbourg (M° Hamouy)

Seminar in Music Analysis at the Centro di Ricerca e Sperimentazione per la Didattica Musicale (M° Pousseur and prof. Imberty)

1987-88
Series of seminars in Improvisation, SIEM, Bologna:
“Improvisation in Asian music tradition” (Prof. Tran Van Khe).
“New Improvisation  Techniques today” (M° Schiaffini).
“Improvisation in Jazz Music” (M° Gaslini).

1988
Participation in the seminar on music meditation “The Creating Listener”, organized by the Institute of Musicosophy (Prof. Balan).

1988-89
Participation in the series of seminars on “Learning how to listen to Bruckner”, organized by the Institute of Musicosophy of St. Peter, Germany (Prof.Balan).

1989
Participation in the seminar on “Schenkerian Analysis” within the Study Meeting on Music Analysis, at the “A. Peri” Music Institute in Reggio Emilia (Prof. Drabkin).

Participation in the seminar on Techniques of Movement and Miming at the coop. Baule dei Suoni , within the activities of the Centro Studio Teatro di Bologna (Prof. Bertocchi).

Participation in the Corse of Artistic Musical Therapy at the Centro Antroposofico Italiano in Oriago (VE) Prof. Mees.