Reflections - Essays on music

"Simplifying something that seems difficult"

Padova, June 2007Article was published at Alterazioni n°6 magazine directed by the students of Padova Conservatory. I'd like to talk about the fruits of some of my reflections I dealt with ...

"To exist in every note" - In memory of Fausto Zadra

Rome, May 30, 2002

To exist in every noteWas the sentence I heard very often, when I was a student and assistant during the lessons of Fausto Zadra and that sentence is still in my ...

"Joy of (piano) playing"

Rome, March 4 2009

During my recent lesson, I had a new opportunity to elaborate on the idea of person’s attitude while playing.Almost all performers are afraid in some way of ...

"Experience of harmony and meaning"

Ever since I was little, when I inherited my grandmother's piano, I was fascinated by the expressive possibilities of this instrument.. 


But it was the instrument that had ...

"Interpretation": a controversal issue

Sound by itself isn't music but it is what transports us inside it. It's like a lure that attracts and triggers our own musical awareness to instinctively unify a multitude of acoustic perceptions ...