My career has developed in the fields of performance, teaching and music promotion.

My performance activity unfolded mainly in Mexico and China, where I played as a principal flute in Chihuahua Estate Orchestra, Toluca Philharmonic Orchestra and Wuhan Philharmonic Orchestra for ten years, acquiring a wide experience in team leading and chamber music.

One the pedagogical side, I have 14 years of music instruction experience – teaching over 200 students across 5 languages including English, Chinese, Italian, Spanish, and French. My teaching pedagogy is based on bridging the newest teaching strategies with the solid background that I’d acquired in my long classical training, tailoring my lessons on every student’s need and considering their cultural background.

Wherever I moved, I tried to create connections between people and different cultural environments, bridging musical cultures and artists from different backgrounds. I’m currently DMA candidate at UBC Vancouver, where I’m conducting a research on embodied techniques in flute practice and performance. Deeply convinced about the fundamental importance of music for personal development of child and as a tool of permanent improvement all life through, I founded in Italy a cultural company with the aim to promote music events especially in the peripheric areas and disadvantaged communities.

Finally, with the intention to tear down the walls between academic music research and audience, I designed “The Music Bubble”, a podcast aiming to share awareness about all the different facets of music phenomena and to grow the music audience.

According to the recent development on cognitive studies, most of the basic bodily processes that underlie human actions are largely unaware, including highly specialized motor skills that allow musicians to play. However, awareness of such processes represents a fundamental tool to build mental imageries that are extremely helpful in improving the sound production’s mechanism, rhythmic structure and required actions. Such processes are enhanced if integrated by visual, tactile and auditory information.

My research aims to explore the ways in which embodied cognitive approaches can be applied to the flute’s daily practice. That will hopefully enrich quantitatively and qualitatively the tools available the flutists for solving instrumental problems and expand their artistic possibilities.

Moreover, my intent is to bridge the two fields of theoretical studies on performance and performance practice itself, making available to the musicians the newest ideas developed by academia.

The focus of my research is the daily flute practice and the problems related to the different aspects of playing, with the goal to propose embodied ways to solve them, with a special focus on timbre and tuning, and exercises that develop the kinesthetic awareness for gaining control of fingers’ micro movements.

In so doing, I hope to encourage flutists to find a more personal voice.