He is currently a Research fellow in Ethnomusicology at the University of Milan. His scholarship mainly focuses on music performance across different cultures and locales, at the intersection of archival research, ethnomusicology, and visual anthropology. He also focuses on sound studies and acoustic ecology. He recently edited the new Italian edition of R. Murray Schafer’s seminal book The Tuning of the World. He has been visiting fellow at Harvard Music Department, and the recipient of a research scholarship from the Paul Sacher Stiftung (Basel). He is also active as a choir conductor, serving as the artistic director of ITER Research Ensemble, a newly-formed vocal and research group.

Composer, ukulelist and music theorist, is a tenured professor and head of research at the Conservatory of Alessandria. He has researched the use of quantitative methods in music and composition, developing a personal and unique mathematically informed aesthetics. The recordings of his music are published by Brilliant Classics. Moreover, he commissions and performs new contemporary classical music written for the ukulele and arrange classical and renowned contemporary and twentieth century scores for it, fostering the development of a new challenging and cultivated ukulele repertoire and aiming to deepen and evolve the idiomatic unique features of the instrument.