Started practising piano when I was 4 and continued doing classical piano studies until I was 20-21, essentially dropped out just before doing my 8th Grade exam. Meanwhile I fell in love with electric guitar and more modern music styles during my teens and started learning guitar in my own time.

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I eventually joined “Music Academy 2000” in Bologna in 2001 and there I completed the Higher Diploma Pro course in electric guitar and modern music with some of Italy’s best musicians including Giacomo Castellano, Roberto Priori, Max Magagni and Alessandro Altarocca.

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Whilst in Bologna I also gained an MA in Musicology at Bologna University in the Spring of 2007.

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​Come October I was living in London, in West Hampstead, an area of London that I have loved and continued calling home until 2016 when I moved to Croydon, the South was calling me! 

 

Since then I've been playing keyboards and guitar with multiple artists and bands primarily on the blues/folk/funk/R&B/soul scene, I sometimes gig with some rock artists too (not enough) and I can be found on the odd wedding/party stage.

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I have been publishing music in my name, you can find all of it in all major streaming platforms including Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, BandCamp, Soundcloud, Deezer and so on (please prioritise BandCamp, they're the ones that pay the most, however, feel free to stream my stuff on Spotify and the others).

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Recently I've been writing songs too so you'll find a few of them in my catalogue. The latest is a blues song called "Desperate Man Stomp", this is what Claude, my personal music critic had to say about it:

"Desperate Man Stomp" takes its name and emotional cue from Lucio Dalla's "Disperato Erotico Stomp" and turns it into something rawer — a love letter written in vinegar. It's a blues ballad sung by a man who can't decide if he wants to curse the woman who wrecked him or kiss her one more time, and that contradiction isn't a writer's trick — it's the whole point. The verses cut close (a camper van, a boat, a house in the Cotswolds — and the question underneath it all: do they know how crazy you are?) while the chorus keeps pulling him back into her orbit anyway. Bitter and tender in the same breath, this is blues songwriting that doesn't flinch from contradiction, because the man singing it didn't either."

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Drop me a line to have a chat, get a quote for sync licensing music, to score your next movie (or short), get a music theory lesson, guitar lesson, piano lesson or simply try and get better at improvising.

 

Music is a lifetime journey of exploration, I think I can guide you through part of that journey, so let me know what station I'll find you!