Born in Breganze (VI) on March 27, 1949, at the age of 17 he began studying the violin at the Istituto Musicale Città di Thiene (VI), under the guidance of maestro Guido Furini and other teachers.
He attended the Industrial Technical Institute "Alessandro Rossi" in Vicenza, graduating as an Industrial Expert in the year 1969.
He began teaching music in middle schools in the province of Vicenza in 1979, earning a diploma in Music Didactics (Special Course Art. 44 Law 270/82) from the Vicenza Conservatory of Music on July 11, 1990, and later a teaching certificate for Class 27 (Music Education).
A remarkable cultural curiosity, both musical and technical-scientific, led him since the late 1970s to become interested in music of the European folk tradition (Balkan and Celtic areas), playing in various ensembles.
Also a mandolin enthusiast, he directed the Breganze Plectrum Orchestra from 1978 to 1984, with numerous concerts in Italy and abroad (Spain).
In the early 1980s he began (in cooperation with Domenico Zamboni) a field research of oral tradition music in the Veneto regional area and since 2000 an archival research in criminal records aimed at collecting ethno-musical elements. The archive, which contains several thousand songs, recorded music and films, has since 2013 become part of the "Archives and libraries of 20th-century Veneto music" at the Ugo and Olga Levi Foundation in Venice.
In 1992 he was part of the Bandabrian ensemble, formed as a cultural association in 1994, with which he reproposes the music collected in field research, through hundreds of concerts, lecture-concerts, thematic performances offered for municipalities, libraries and in provincial and national festivals. Abroad he has performed in Russia (1998), Greece (2002), Hungary (2004), Germany (2006) and France (2008).
In addition to about fifty articles in specialized journals and numerous essays, he has published together with Domenico Zamboni the following monographic works: "La bonasera signori e done...," Christmas Songs and Traditions in the Province of Vicenza (1997), Pica carnevale, Ancient Carnivals in the Province of Vicenza (2002), Lorì lorì Piereto lo voi mi, Thirteen Vicentine Folk Dances Complete with Music and Choreography (2002), The Great War Sung, Stories of Men, Women and Songs (2016) and Crimes to the Sound of a Violin, Stories of Folk Music in a Venetian Province (2019). He has been invited as a speaker at numerous conferences in Italy and, in collaboration with the Bandabrian Cultural Association, has set up various exhibitions of folk musical instruments in the Veneto area. He has also produced, in collaboration with Zamboni, several CDs containing recordings of original documents.
