NATIONALITY:

Italian

MEDIA APPLAUSE:

“...lovely poise throughout, sometimes as though with bated breath, other times with driving propulsion, and occasionally exploding with pure joie de vivre.”

— BBC Music Magazine

Where do you find inspiration to create music?

Being an interpreter, I don’t feel like I create music: I am just giving voice to masterpieces by composers, either from the past or of today. The main inspiration is the work itself, interiorized and made dearer and dearer to me in its every detail through hundreds of hours spent together. 

Other than that, life is the greatest inspiration: people I meet, cities I visit, the art and the wealth of emotions I get to experience … everything I do enters my music making, in a subconscious way, and changes it through the years.

Which field outside of music most influences your creative process (art, design, architecture, fashion, film)?

Probably art, architecture and film. As an Italian, I grew up studying the enormously rich artistic heritage my country’s history has to offer, and every time I visit a new city I do not miss the chance to discover new museums! 

Can you describe a routine that helps you maintain a healthy lifestyle?

I love hiking and swimming when I am able to find time for them: I feel grounded, stable and physically stronger when I exercise.

What energizes you to keep creating and moving forward?

The abundance of masterpieces and of people who have yet to discover them. I am happy when through my work people are touched by great music they did not know, or never understood. This is how my two projects “Sonata for 7 Cities” and “The Art of Fugue Explored” were born.

What’s one specific product you highly recommend?

Lately I am very fond and excited about my LARQ bottle. Through great engineering, it purifies any water: I never need to think whether tap water is safe to drink, I am never out of water, and since it is self-cleaning, I do not need to stress about that either!