Franco Ferrara
He studied Conducting with Franco Ferrara and completed his studies with Francesco de Masi, Carlo Maria Giulini, Gennadi Rozhdestvensky and Leonard Bernstein, attending the Superior Courses at the Accademia Nazionale "Santa Cecilia" in Rome and at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena where he received the Honour Diploma in 1988.