He was born in Turin in 1965 and he started playing percussions when he was 15, attending classical studies at the Liceo Musicale of Savigliano, with the guide of the Maestro Giorgio Artoni (percussionist at the Parma Theatre).
In the same time he studied drums with Enrico Lucchini.
In 1986 he moved to the States and he attended the “Berklee College of Music” of Boston where he followed Alan Dawson and Joe Hunt’s lessons.
In the first ‘90s he came back to Italy and moved to Rome where he started his collaboration with the group Aires Tango founded by the Argentinian saxophonist Javier Girotto.
With this group he recorded 5 CDs and gave 200 concerts with Enrico Rava, Paolo Fresu, Antonello Salis, Gianni Coscia and Peppe Servillo as guests.
In 1995 he met Antonello Salis, with whom he started a duo collaboration , by giving a lot of concerts and recording a CD in trio with Javier Girotto.
His passion for improvised and contemporary music led him to work live and in studio with some musicians like Sainkho Namchylak, Dominique Pifarály, Michel Godard, Eugenio Colombo, Rita Marcotulli, Roberto Ottaviano, Giancarlo Schiaffini, Riccardo Lay, Roberto Cecchetto, Giovanni Maier, Carlo Rizzo, Vincent Courtois, Nicola Stilo, George Garzone, to list some of them.
In 1997 Paolo Damiani (now conductor of French ONJ) founded a new quartet made up of the saxophonist Sandro Satta, the luneddas player Carlo Mariani and Michele Rabbia.
They recorded a CD for the EGEA label called “Mediana” and they gave several concrets in important European festivals such as Le Mans, Grenoble, Roccella Jonica, Nimes, Madrid and Casablanca and Rabat in Morocco.
In 1999 he formed a duo with the Milanese pianist Stefano Battaglia. Then the project Atem Trio was born with Stefano Battaglia and the French violinist Dominique Pifarály. This experience led them to record a CD in quintet in Paris in 2001 with Vincent Courtois and Michel Godard. He is also a member of Michel Godard’s trio with the singer Linda Bsiri.
His interest in other forms of art is the reason for his collaboration with the American dancer and choreographer Teri Weikel, the Spanish Magda Borull Pascal of Carolyn Carlson’s company and with Flavia Buccero’s Compagnia Teatro Danza.
He played in several movie and theatre sound tracks.
He was in the best Italian festivals among which Umbria Jazz, JVC, Clusone, Fano Jazz, Roccella Jonica Mara Jazz, Atina Jazz, Sant’Anna Arresi to list some of them.
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