Diploma in Saxophone, conferred in October 2001 at the Conservatorio "G. Puccini" in La Spezia (Italy).
Soloist and Performance Diploma “Licenziate of the Royal School of Music”, conferred in May 2002 in Milano (Italy).

Diploma in Pedagogy, conferred in June 2003 at the Helvetic Music Intitute in Bellinzona (Swiss).Highest degree with honorable mention - AGSMD(P), conferred in November 2003, at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama - Trinity College, in London (England).

Post degree improver courses with: Claude Delangle, Arno Bornkamp, Vincent David, Jean-Denise Michat, Philippe Braquart, Christian Wirth, Damien Royannais, Fran?ois L?claircie, Masataka Hirano, Fabrizio Mancuso, Mario Ciaccio.As first Saxophone, contributions with: Orchestra Sinfonica di Savona, Orchestra Sinfonica Paganini, Orchestra Sinfonica di Asti, Big Band di Chiavari.As soloist, contributions with several chamber music groups, contemporary music laboratories, duo Saxophone & Piano and Saxophone & Organ concerts.

Founding member of the Saxophone quartet "SaxUPO": several unreleased songs have been recorded with this quartet. Founding member, Manager and Artistic Director of the "Choir and Orchestra of the University of Piemonte Orientale" in 2005: this group has been considered, at the moment, one of the most original ad interesting Orchestra in the whole italian panorama.
Guest director in several italian theaters.Musical arrangements, transcriptions and didactical works have been published by "Boario Edizioni Musicali".

Playing Yanagisawa since 1996.