TUTELAGE / FORMATION

Orchestral Conducting: Attilio Poto (protégé of Léon Barzin, who was a protégé of Arturo Toscanini) Boston Conservatory & Private - 6 yrs 

Conductors, partial list (orchestral keyboards & basso continuo): Seiji Ozawa (7 yrs), Benjamin Zander (15 yrs), Gunther Schuller (7 yrs), Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Roberto Abbado, Bernard Haitink, Eugene Ormandy, Luciano Berio, Keith Lockhart (7 yrs), Jonathan McPhee, John Mauceri, David Hoose, Gil Rose, Sir Trevor Pinnock, Sir Andrew Davis , Edo de Wart, Sir Neville Marriner, Jeffrey Tate, Eugene Ormandy, Ton Koopman, James Levine, Sir Andrew Davis.

Choral Conducting: Allen Lannom, Boston Conservatory/Berklee School of Music

Organ /Harpsichord/Early Music/ Basso Continuo:  Henry Cook, Jack Fisher (Boston University, B.A.), John Binsfeld, Brian Jones, James David Christie (Boston Conservatory/Berklee School of Music, M.M.) 

Master Classes/Private Study/ Seminar Intensives: Harold Vogel, William Porter, Edoardo Bellotti, Xavier Darasse, Garth Peacock, David Boe, Enrico Viccardi,  Haskell Thomson 

Vocal Pedagogy: Iride Pilla 

Composition: Larry Bell, John Adams

Fluent in English and Italian, with working abilities in Spanish and German