[Testo disponibile solo in inglese] Producer, composer, sound engineer, videomaker, and multimedia director. In 2026, he celebrates 48 years of activity.
In 1978, he opened his first recording home studio in Jesi. In '89, he moved to the countryside in Monsano, surrounded by olive groves, renovating the old pink barn (pink house studios), founding the audio-video studios pinkhouse studios www.pinkhouselab.com. In '78, his first 45 RPM record with the group "Garage Privato" was released for 100città of RCA Italiana. To date, he has produced thousands of vinyl records, audio CDs, CD-ROMs, DVDs, as well as hundreds of post-productions, mixes, soundtracks, and audio direction for documentaries, films, and cartoons, specializing in the recording of operas, concerts, musicals, and special live events. He has been registered with SIAE as a composer-author since 1980. The common characteristics of all these activities are the use of audio-video-computer techniques applied in a pioneering and/or unconventional manner. In 1991, he founded the RARA records label www.rara.it, of which he is the manager and producer, with over 130 titles, always searching for quality and rarity music from classical to contemporary, from jazz-rock to world music.
He has worked for and with, among others:
MUSIC: Ennio Morricone, Paolo Fresu, Andrea Bocelli, Luis Bacalov, Nicola Sani, Giorgio Gaslini, Paolo Conte, Gianluigi Trovesi, Daniele Di Gregorio, Bruno Tommaso, Musica Nuda, Avion Travel, Franco De Gemini, Francesco Santucci, Dinu Gezzu (dir. New York University), Orlando Jacinto Garcia (dir. Florida State University), Jack Walrath, Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Carlinhos Brown, Teresa Salgueiro, Margareta Menezes, Virginia Rodrigues, Arnaldo Antunes, Zeca Baleiro, Alex Mesquita, Ala dos Namorados (gold record in Portugal), Pape Gurioli, Giulio Capiozzo (Area), Corrado Canonici, Maurizio Barbetti, Federico Mondelci, Massimo Morganti, Massimo Quarta, Sebastiano Brusco, Andrea Ceccomori, Eugenio Bennato, Taranta Power, Tetraktis, Gianni Giudici, Daniele Di Bonaventura, Stefano Belisario (Elio e le Storie Tese), Tenores di Neoneli, FORM and Richard Galliano, etc.
THEATRE: Giorgio Albertazzi, Nando Gazzolo, Giancarlo Giannini, Gerard Depardieu, Alfredo Arias (Theatre de Chaillot Paris, Nantes, Marseille), Cristiano Caldironi, Arena Sferisterio, Fondazione Pergolesi Spontini, Sanremo Festival, Festival dei Due Mondi, Teatro delle Albe, Compagnia della Rancia, Societas Raffaello Sanzio, Montreux Jazz Festival, Gardaland and Oltremare parks, and recorded many operas in the best Italian theaters broadcast on Sky Classic and Rai5, etc.
INDUSTRIES AND NETWORKS: Bontempi, Elka, Farfisa, Generalmusic, Korg Italy, Lem Professional, Viscount, Ketron, M-Live, RAI (1, 2, 3, 5), RADIORAI (1, 2, 3), Mediaset, TMC, TVGlobo (Brazil), WDR (Germany), Arté, SKY, Rainbow Animation, etc.
He has created soundtracks, post-production audio, surround mixes, editing or direction for:
ANIMATED CARTOONS: “Astrokids” by Carlo Rambaldi - Rainbow Animation; “Tommy & Oscar Il fantasma dell’opera” CD-ROM (Rainbow Animation), music and educational consultancy for musical games (awarded by the American magazine “Children’s Software Revue” as “best title for musical education in the world”); “Tommy & Oscar” RAI-Rainbow Animation 52 episodes x 26 min., broadcast in over 50 countries worldwide; “Monster Allergy” RAI-Rainbow Animation-France6 52 episodes x 26 min., broadcast worldwide; “Prezzemolo” Fininvest-Rainbow 26 episodes x 11 min.; Gardaland direction and creation in 2000 of the CD-ROM for the park's 25th anniversary (also designed and built the audio control system for the robots of the “Egitto” and “Africa” attractions in '82-'83); “Star Key” RAI Gulp - Gama Animation 26 episodes x 26 min.; etc.
FILMS AND DOCS: “Karate Warriors 2” music (the first film by Kim Rossi Stuart); “Fratella e Sorello” music and mix, directed by Sergio Citti; “Fallo” and “Monamour” surround mix and music, directed by Tinto Brass; “Tambores e Deuses”, “Viva la Banda”, “Palestrina”, “La Rete di Santini” by Georg Brintrup for WDR-ARTE, TVGlobo; live sound, post-production audio, and mix; “Una vita perfetta” by Diego D’Innocenzo for National Geographic US post-production audio and mix; “Io, Gioacchino Rossini” direction, mix and editing for Accademia dei Musici; “Tango Suite” direction, music recording, and editing for RAI5, FORM and Daniele Di Bonaventura; “Un uomo e una voce, a Beniamino Gigli” live sound, mix and music - directed by Giuseppe Conti; “Acqua alle Corde” live sound, editing, mix and music - directed by Paolo Consorti; “Mammai”, “Aspettando Elio” live sound, mix and editing documentaries for RAI Sardegna, by Paolo Consorti with music by Paolo Fresu; etc.
STREAMING: During the lockdown period, he directed over 15 streaming productions from all the theaters in the Marche region with FORM (Marche Philharmonic Orchestra and soloists); etc.
STUDIES AND WORKS: He began in 1975 with classical and electric guitar, playing in jazz-rock groups, then graduated in violin and electronic music composition from the “G. Rossini” Conservatory in Pesaro (1985). He attended DAMS in Bologna and the Faculty of Computer Science in Pisa (after graduating in '78 from ITC in Jesi).
In '80, still a student at the electronic music lab in Pesaro, he was noted by his late Prof. and Eng. Eugenio Giordani as a talent and precursor of musical informatics, and joined the research and development lab of General Music as a musical-engineer and MIDI expert and sound designer. Still a student, he received honorable mentions in international electronic music composition competitions “Russolo-Pratella” Italy and Bourges-France. He has worked in research and development labs for Lem Professional, IRIS, Farfisa, Bontempi, Korg Italy, Ketron, Fatar-Studiologic, M-Live designing specifications for new musical instruments, MIDI applications, and creating new sound algorithms. As a Pro Tools specialist expert, he has held Master Classes at various universities, research labs, and recording studios such as: New York University, Florida State University (USA); UPIC, La Muse en Circuit, Radio France, (Paris and Lyon) recording studios in Rome, Lisbon, Moscow, and UFBA in Salvador de Bahia.
He has been praised in various articles in international magazines: such as The New York Music Journal, TVB Europe, CD classica, Digidesign America user stories, alongside the most important global achievements among the first ProTools users (first Italian).