Born in Switzerland and of Italian and Swiss nationality, I moved to Boston at 18 to attend Berklee College of Music, after studying piano and music theory privately. I loved the experience enormously and soaked it up, spending the entirety of my free time studying scores, composing, recording in the studios and meeting fantastic musicians.

After teaching for a year in Switzerland, I moved to Los Angeles to study composition at California State University, Northridge with Daniel Kessner, and later, Liviu Marinescu. This gave me a firm basis of modern classical compositional techniques, and opened my mind to a myriad of modern chamber and orchestral sounds I had not encountered before. While at CSUN, I also studied Film literature with Maria De Las Carreras, whose boundless passion, and encyclopedic knowledge of the subject, lead me to develop a better understanding of film structure and underlying themes. 

With the academic education concluded, I started scoring short films, trailers, and eventually documentaries and films. During this time, I spent much energy analyzing musical simplicity: the music of some of the composers I admire most appears simple on the surface, but is driven by careful, often intricate melodic and thematic development, as well as rich harmonic context. So in my own writing, themes are broken down to their smallest, various components and stitched back together in different ways, so that even seemingly random passages are normally derived from themes.