About me

I am a composer. I have been writing music since I was a boy.

Music is my life because, through it, I can express and convey everything that would be impossible to communicate to others with the words and gestures of everyday life.

Mission

I want people to have the opportunity to bring to life and give voice to the music that a contemporary composer like me wishes to share with the world.

In other words, my goal is to give space to the ideas and emotions of contemporary art.

Vision

I wish for those who perform my music to have a fulfilling experience.

Transmitting what I feel to the world is the most important thing to me, because I believe we live this life to be together and communicate with each other.

Forgotten A new piece with
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My music

Burning lights

for Flute Orchesta

Official anthem of the Magna Graecia Flute Choir, commissioned by the late Maestro Sebastiano Valentino...

On a Columnar Self

for TTBB a cappella choir
Poem by Emily Dickinson


I composed this piece titled "On a Columnar Self," inspired by Emily Dickinson's poem...

America

for Piano

This piano piece was written in memory of my great-grandfather, Maestro Riccardo De Carlo, who left Italy...

O magnum mysterium

for SATB a cappella choir
Text from Liturgy


The mystery of an infinite God who becomes so small that he finds refuge in the womb...

Winter Stars

for SATB a cappella choir
Poem by Sara Teasdale


In ‘Winter Stars’ Teasdale speaks on themes of change, aging, and the universe. Through very...

Eternity

for SATB choir and Piano
Poem by Emily Dickinson


As if the Sea should part And show a further Sea a And that a a further a and the Three But...

Brother

for SATB a cappella choir
Poem by William Blake


I composed this piece for my brother Raffaele’s 40th birthday, reflecting on our relationship which...

My dear Life Another collaboration with
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