sentences:  He is graduate (Docteur ès lettres) at the Università Cattolica di Milano.He was born in Milan, Italy, where as a child he began his study of music with the violin (teacher Dora Piatti) and later the viola da gamba.In 1995 he was the winner of the "Concorso Internazionale Romano Romanini per strumenti ad arco" (Brescia).