CURRICULUM VITAE

EDUCATION

• Nino Rota Music Conservatory of Monopoli (Italy): Diploma in Piano Performance, October 2003 Advisor: Pianist Benedetto Lupo

• University of Wisconsin-Madison Mead Witter School of Music: MM (Master of Music) in Piano Performance, May 2014 Advisor: Prof. Christopher Taylor

• University of Wisconsin-Madison Mead Witter School of Music: DMA (Doctor of Musical Arts) in Piano Performance, May 2018. Advisor: Prof. Christopher Taylor.

  DMA Dissertation: Stylistic Correspondences between Nino Rota’s Filmic and Non Filmic Music

  Doctoral Minor Advisor; Prof. Leslie Blasius

FURTHER PIANO EDUCATION

Piano Masterclasses:

• 2013, Madison: Pianist Jeremy Denk; 2003 and 2006, Barletta: Pianist Marisa Somma; 2003, Taranto: Pianist Lazar Berman; 2002, Rodi Garganico: Pianist Robert Levin; 2001, Monopoli: Pianist Riccardo Risaliti; April, and October 2001, Monopoli: Pianist Nelson Delle Vigne-Fabbri; March and May 2001, Monopoli: Pianist Andrea Lucchesini; 1997, Otranto: Pianist Pierluigi Camicia.

Chamber Music Masterclasses:

• 1999, Chieti: Violinist Francesco D`Orazio; 2002, Trani: Pianist Konstantin Bogino.

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

Project Assistant, University of Wisconsin-Madison Mead Witter School of Music, Fall 2016 Community Music Lessons (CML) Coordinator: Recruitment of instructors and CVs evaluation; organization of private lessons; payroll duties; publicity; recital organization.

Teaching Assistant, University of Wisconsin-Madison Mead Witter School of Music, Fall 2015 - Spring 2016 Applied Piano for Secondaries and Non-Majors (Piano 200): Teaching private piano lessons to non-music majors and teaching piano as second instrument to music majors; attending masterclasses and juries.

Teaching Assistant, University of Wisconsin-Madison Mead Witter School of Music, Fall 2014 - Spring 2015 Applied Piano for Secondaries and Non-Majors (Piano 200): Teaching private piano lessons to non-music majors and teaching piano as second instrument to music majors; attending masterclasses and juries. Adjunct pianist and celesta player: UW-Madison Mead Witter School of Music Symphony and Chamber Orchestras.

Project Assistant, University of Wisconsin-Madison Mead Witter School of Music, Fall 2013 - Spring 2014 Keyboard area administration and accompanying: Principal pianist and celesta player for UW-Madison Mead Witter School of Music Symphony and Chamber Orchestras.

Project Assistant, University of Wisconsin-Madison, mead Witter Scholl of Music, Fall 2012 - Spring 2013 Keyboard area administration and accompanying: Principal pianist and celesta player for UW-Madison School of Music Symphony and Chamber Orchestras; organization of the 2013 “Piano Extravaganza.”

ACCOMPANYING AND COLLABORATING EXPERIENCE

Principal pianist and celesta player for UW-Madison Mead Witter School of Music Symphony and Chamber Orchestras, Academic Years 2012-2013 and 2013-2014.

Adjunct pianist and celesta player for UW-Madison Mead Witter School of Music Symphony and Chamber Orchestras, Academic Year 2014-2015.

Chamber music repertoire and accompanying: two-decade experience in all stylistic repertoires; chamber music repertoire and orchestra reductions of Concertos; extensive collaboration with singers, violinists, cellists, flutists, oboists, guitarists and pianists (Piano four hands.)

Rehearsal Pianist for Suzuki violin and viola classes: Farley’s House of Pianos (Madison, WI) Fall 2015.