Welcome
Originally from Italy, I am a composer of vocal, chamber, and orchestral music, currently based in San Francisco, California. Please find below information about upcoming concerts, recent performances, and future projects. Explore the site for more.
Recent premieres
The Retraction. April 24, and 25, 2026, 8:00 pm, CMC Concert Hall, 544 Capp Street, San Francisco.
In this cautionary tale, we follow Isobel Gowdie, a young peasant woman accused of witchcraft in 1662 Scotland, through her last days.
The Retraction, framed as a dramatic song cycle for soprano, three-voice choir, and mixed ensemble, serves partly as a timely warning of the perils of irrational thought and unchecked power, but mainly seeks to give a voice to Isobel—a young woman at the bottom of the social order, destroyed by the wheels of a brutal and unjust society.
You May Get a History Page. April 26, 2026, 2:00 pm, Center for New Music, 55 Taylor Street San Francisco, San Francisco.
You May Get a History Page, for voice and electronics, imagines a powerful figure visited by the Furies, the goddesses of vengeance. They sing in their rage the following lines:
(Chorus) Hear the chant that knows no lyre! We are the Goddesses of vengeance, hunting the sacrilegious vile with bristly serpent hair, casting a fettering spell on you.
(Solo) Hay you, yes, you. You might get a history page thanks to your acrid twisted lies. You might thread multitudes in dirt thanks to your sordid lust for glory. You might get a history page but still, you’ll soon will be dust. We’ll nurse your terror, disrupt your brain, disperse the soul.
(Chorus) You might get a history page but you’ll be only frightened dust
Older News
October, with Mercury Variations, an exuberant piece for piano and two percussionists, closed a rather busy 2025, with a five new works premiered since last March.
In July Piano Trio No.3 (Taming the Tantrum), which portrays the onset of a minor conflict—a tantrum, a verbal dispute, or something slightly more serious and its aftermath.
In April Nel Tardo Mezzo a sort of musical confession written for soprano, clarinet, violin and cello
and Lagrangian Point, for female voice, piano and percussion, a short, lyrical hymn to Earth, inspired by Samantha Harvey’s novel Orbital.
And in March my probably most meaningful work to date:Tell es-Sakan, a concert-length protest work, motivated by the war in Gaza, written for string quartet and percussion
Thank you to all players, Keisuke Nakagoshi, piano, Divesh Karamchandani and Elizabeth Hall percussion, Paul Dab, piano, Michael Long, violin, Sung Choi, cello, Maki Ishii Sowash, violin, Vicky Ehrlich, cello, Stephen Zielinski, clarinet, Hailey Gutowski, soprano, Sarita Cannon, mezzo-soprano, Kymry Esainko, piano, Otis Harriel, violin, Kevin Rogers, violin, Mitso Floor, viola, Doug Machiz, cello, Haruka Fujii, percussion, Anne Szabla, percussion, who made this possible
Music Scores
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Teaching
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Some Press
A recent interview about Tell es-Sakan with Sharon Wayne can be found here, and a review of String Quartet No.7, an asynchronous piece written during the COVID pandemic here. Alongside, you’ll find an extensive interview with Carolyn Howley, featuring detailed excerpts from The Sofa, for percussion quartet, and Aquamarinus, performed by the Berkeley Symphony.
… and in the Pipeline
At the end of a busy period I am moving on to new projects. More voice and electronics, in a song cycle, a string trio and a wind trio, a longer version of Mercury Variations. In the background brainstorming a larger piece for voice.