Sonata n°9 Op. 98 Concerto senza orchestra

“Contrasti” op. 97 (against all war)

“Essenza” op. 96

“Apollo” op. 88

Listening to the news and observing closely the realities of the many poor people who roam our cities, without a roof, without a perspective, without a self, they seem to me so many shadows that appear and disappear without leaving a real trace, if not in our hearts ....

This is the passage in which I intended to collect all my thoughts and affection for my land. It is a casket full of lights, where the essential is revealed, where the sweetness and sweet beauty of Sicily is so great that it covers every other shadow and every other...

This song was inspired by a funny episode during a day at the beach. Lying on my bed, I witnessed the classic and predictable "Mise en scène" of the gymnast macio, who flaunting very predictable attitudes, struts in front of a beautiful woman. This thing made me smile...

I wrote this piece on the occasion of the seven hundredth anniversary of Dante's death, to pay a tribute to the genius, to the giant of Italian literature. His masterpiece, "The Divine Comedy" fascinated me a lot. I let myself be transported with strength in his...

This enormous masterpiece of Sicilian painting has always enchanted me for the intense and very sweet expression of the face and hands of the Virgin, who, finding herself in front of the angel's announcement, expressed the total yes of her. This attitude aroused in me...

I wrote this piece after a visit to the Vucciria Market, dazzling with colors and vivid with sounds and scents. The synaesthetic sensation of this walk inspired me a song full of joy and light; the listener will be able to feel transported into this lively and typical...

The events that occurred between May and July 1992, or the massacres where the two great martyrs Falcone and Borsellino were killed, have forever marked the souls of us Sicilians. Faced with the greatness and courage of these heroes, who have spent their lives for an...

The music I wrote, reveals the sarcasm and bitterness that pervade me when in certain situations, you notice the attitudes of men, who do not possess a strong personality or great moral and intellectual values, show that they do not have a autonomy of thought and seem...

Too often, the stories of that part of humanity forced to emigrate in search of a corner of the world that can give them a better hope of life reach our ears. On the island of Lampedusa, we often witness these situations. All this does not leave me indifferent: my...

I wrote this passage to dedicate it to Blessed Carlo Acutis, a wonderful young man who lived his short life always turning his whole being to God, especially to the evangelization of young people, to charity towards the needy and to teaching the preciousness of the...

In this seventh Sonata of mine, the theme of ecstasy, characterized by great pathos and overwhelming passion, permeates the whole piece and like a leitmotiv, in the persistence of the composition, unravels and intertwines with other themes, acquiring different...

I composed this piece for the great cellist and friend Giovanni Sollima. It is a composition full of lyricism and enveloping passion. In the central part of the piece, there is a cadenza in which the solo cello is brought to the maximum of all its expressive and...

I have always had a great interest in late nineteenth-century pianists and composers. Their expressive forms have brought the concert for piano and orchestra to the height of its splendor. Over the years, I have always floated the idea of ​​dedicating myself to this...

Very often I find myself traveling in my beloved Sicily and being enchanted in front of its many wonderful landscapes, I close my eyes and see spaces that become infinite in my mind. So images, ideas, sounds, concepts and memories follow one another which I then...