....was born in Verona, Italy, the 26th of February
1963. He studied piano under his father's direction since the age of
five. He started at the age of 15 to study composition, with private
teachers (Professor Giorietto in Verona and later Luigi Bonafede
in Milan). He lived four years in Milan where he graduated in
architecture at the Politecnico, University of Milan. Then he moved to
Vienna where he studied composition, for three years, at the
Hochschule fur Musik, with professor Dieter Kaufmann and Tamas Ungvary
who introduced him also to computer music. From 1992 to 1997 he
has been Visiting Composer at CCRMA (Center for Computer Research in
Music and Acoustic, Stanford University). There he specialized in
computer music, studying among others with John Chowning. He gave
talks and lectures at Stanford University, in Vienna, at the
University of Padova, in Verona, New York University.
He wrote for various music ensembles
and as well computer music, he also produced and composed music
theater and computer music theater. He also made sound design for
other theater productions. He wrote music for contemporary dance
performances. In the last year he worked as a consultant for Apple in
a speech recognition project. He's currently teaching Computer Music at
New York University, in the Music and Technology Department in the School
of Education (Music and performing Arts) and visiting composer at Columbia University, in its
Computer Music Center. His Music has been performed in many
different countries like Italy, Ausrtia, Ungary, Romania, Slovenia,
United States, Germany, France, Chile, Cuba.
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