Welcome
Originally from Italy, I am a composer of opera, orchestral, and chamber music, currently based in San Francisco, California. Please find below information about upcoming concerts, recent performances, and future projects. Explore the site for more.
Upcoming Concerts
February 15, 2026, Center for New Music, San Francisco. Three Failed Enchantments for Flute, performed by Jessie Nucho, flute and bass flute. After all, wouldn’t you try to enchant the world into a better place?
April 24, 25 and May 2, 2026. The Retraction, for soprano, choir of three voices, cello, violin, flute, percussion and piano. A mad woman, a proto-feminist, and an icon of Wicca communities, Isobel Gowdie, a peasant woman tried for witchcraft in Auldearn, northeast Scotland, in 1662, has been interpreted in many ways since her four lengthy and detailed confessions were re-discovered in 1833. She confessed to everything: twenty-seven spells, carnal dealings with the Devil, membership in a coven serving him, meetings with the fairy queen and king, murder, animal sacrifices, and shapeshifting. The record of the sentence is lost, but almost certainly she was put to death with a Dawglas, Janet Breadhead, her husband John Taylor, and many others implicated in her confession. The Retraction, serves partly as a timely warning of the perils of irrational thought and unchecked power, but mainly seeks to give voice to Isobel—a young woman at the bottom of society, destroyed by the wheels of a brutal and unjust society.
Click here to read the libretto.
News
October, with Mercury Variations, an exuberant piece for piano and two percussionists, closed a rather busy 2025, with a five new works premiered since last March.
In July Piano Trio No.3 (Taming the Tantrum), which portrays the onset of a minor conflict—a tantrum, a verbal dispute, or something slightly more serious and its aftermath.
In April Nel Tardo Mezzo a sort of musical confession written for soprano, clarinet, violin and cello
and Lagrangian Point, for female voice, piano and percussion, a short, lyrical hymn to Earth, inspired by Samantha Harvey’s novel Orbital.
And in March my probably most meaningful work to date:Tell es-Sakan, a concert-length protest work, motivated by the war in Gaza, written for string quartet and percussion
Thank you to all players, Keisuke Nakagoshi, piano, Divesh Karamchandani and Elizabeth Hall percussion, Paul Dab, piano, Michael Long, violin, Sung Choi, cello, Maki Ishii Sowash, violin, Vicky Ehrlich, cello, Stephen Zielinski, clarinet, Hailey Gutowski, soprano, Sarita Cannon, mezzo-soprano, Kymry Esainko, piano, Otis Harriel, violin, Kevin Rogers, violin, Mitso Floor, viola, Doug Machiz, cello, Haruka Fujii, percussion, Anne Szabla, percussion, who made this possible
Music Scores
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Teaching
Looking for a composition or piano instructor? I teach both. Visit my teaching page for more details by clicking below.
Some Press
A recent interview about Tell es-Sakan with Sharon Wayne can be found here, and a review of String Quartet No.7, an asynchronous piece written during the COVID pandemic here. Alongside, you’ll find an extensive interview with Carolyn Howley, featuring detailed excerpts from The Sofa, for percussion quartet, and Aquamarinus, performed by the Berkeley Symphony.
… and in the Pipeline
The final version of The Retraction is done and so is Three Failed Enchantments for Flute. So … new projects? I am starting to write a piece for piano, thinking about a longer version of Mercury Variations, and brain storming an opera … we’ll see.