CURRICULUM VITAE

EDUCATION

• Nino Rota Music Conservatory of Monopoli (Italy): Diploma in Piano Performance, October 2003 Advisor: Pianist Benedetto Lupo

• University of Wisconsin-Madison Mead Witter School of Music: MM (Master of Music) in Piano Performance, May 2014 Advisor: Prof. Christopher Taylor

• University of Wisconsin-Madison Mead Witter School of Music: DMA (Doctor of Musical Arts) in Piano Performance, May 2018. Advisor: Prof. Christopher Taylor.

  DMA Dissertation: Stylistic Correspondences between Nino Rota’s Filmic and Non Filmic Music

  Doctoral Minor Advisor; Prof. Leslie Blasius

FURTHER PIANO EDUCATION

Piano Masterclasses:

• 2013, Madison: Pianist Jeremy Denk; 2003 and 2006, Barletta: Pianist Marisa Somma; 2003, Taranto: Pianist Lazar Berman; 2002, Rodi Garganico: Pianist Robert Levin; 2001, Monopoli: Pianist Riccardo Risaliti; April, and October 2001, Monopoli: Pianist Nelson Delle Vigne-Fabbri; March and May 2001, Monopoli: Pianist Andrea Lucchesini; 1997, Otranto: Pianist Pierluigi Camicia.

Chamber Music Masterclasses:

• 1999, Chieti: Violinist Francesco D`Orazio; 2002, Trani: Pianist Konstantin Bogino.

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

Project Assistant, University of Wisconsin-Madison Mead Witter School of Music, Fall 2016 Community Music Lessons (CML) Coordinator: Recruitment of instructors and CVs evaluation; organization of private lessons; payroll duties; publicity; recital organization.

Teaching Assistant, University of Wisconsin-Madison Mead Witter School of Music, Fall 2015 - Spring 2016 Applied Piano for Secondaries and Non-Majors (Piano 200): Teaching private piano lessons to non-music majors and teaching piano as second instrument to music majors; attending masterclasses and juries.

Teaching Assistant, University of Wisconsin-Madison Mead Witter School of Music, Fall 2014 - Spring 2015 Applied Piano for Secondaries and Non-Majors (Piano 200): Teaching private piano lessons to non-music majors and teaching piano as second instrument to music majors; attending masterclasses and juries. Adjunct pianist and celesta player: UW-Madison Mead Witter School of Music Symphony and Chamber Orchestras.

Project Assistant, University of Wisconsin-Madison Mead Witter School of Music, Fall 2013 - Spring 2014 Keyboard area administration and accompanying: Principal pianist and celesta player for UW-Madison Mead Witter School of Music Symphony and Chamber Orchestras.

Project Assistant, University of Wisconsin-Madison, mead Witter Scholl of Music, Fall 2012 - Spring 2013 Keyboard area administration and accompanying: Principal pianist and celesta player for UW-Madison School of Music Symphony and Chamber Orchestras; organization of the 2013 “Piano Extravaganza.”

ACCOMPANYING AND COLLABORATING EXPERIENCE

Principal pianist and celesta player for UW-Madison Mead Witter School of Music Symphony and Chamber Orchestras, Academic Years 2012-2013 and 2013-2014.

Adjunct pianist and celesta player for UW-Madison Mead Witter School of Music Symphony and Chamber Orchestras, Academic Year 2014-2015.

Chamber music repertoire and accompanying: two-decade experience in all stylistic repertoires; chamber music repertoire and orchestra reductions of Concertos; extensive collaboration with singers, violinists, cellists, flutists, oboists, guitarists and pianists (Piano four hands.)

Rehearsal Pianist for Suzuki violin and viola classes: Farley’s House of Pianos (Madison, WI) Fall 2015.

Collaborative pianist with Guisela Zannerini Neri (mezzosoprano, Teatre del Liceu), Barcelona, from Spring 2023.

Collaborative pianist for Conservatorio del Liceu (violin and bassoon repertoire), Barcelona, Spring 2025.

Collaborative pianist for ballet dancers from Academy Studio Isadora, Barcelona, Spring 2025.