Born in Taranto, after graduating in Opera Singing with honors and honorable mention at the “N. Piccinni” Conservatory of Bari in the class of Domenico Colaianni, Valeria La Grotta He specialized in Renaissance and Baroque singing at the “B. Maderna” Conservatory in Cesena with Roberta Invernizzi. He perfected his skills with Lucrezia Messa, Sonia Prina, Marina De Liso, Sergio Foresti, Stefano Aresi and Marco Mencoboni. He also obtained a Master's degree in Ancient Music at the “S. Pietro a Majella” Conservatory in Naples with Antonio Florio, combining his artistic activity with musicological research with particular attention to unpublished works and first performances in modern times. Under the guidance of Dinko Fabris, Giuseppina Crescenzio and Franco Pavan he attended seminars sponsored by MiBact, the Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music and the Cappella Neapolitana. She participates as a scholar in international conferences such as MusicKing Conference 2022 (University of Oregon – USA), Castrato Singers in Opera – The Current State of Research (DFG-Programms zur Deutsch-Italienischen Zusammenarbeit), Festival a Due Voci – Dialoghi di Musica e Filosofia di Como.

 

He performs in important international festivals: 84th Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Festival with Lully's Aciset Galatée conducted by Federico Maria Sardelli; Ravello Festival with Purcell's Dido and Æneas with the Cappella Neapolitana of Antonio Florio; 46th Cantiere Internazionale d'Arte of Montepulciano with the world premiere of Ecco sparir le stelle by C. Boccadoro; Amia-Alsace Festival of Strasbourg as soloist in Charpentier's TeDeum and in Handel's Ode for St. Cecilia's Day with Martin Gester and Le Parlement de Musique; Festival de Música Antigua de Sevilla with the Neapolitan Baroque Passions by Gaetano Veneziano; Notti Sacre Festival in duo with the contralto Sonia Prina and the Cappella Santa Teresa dei Maschi conducted by Sabino Manzo; Giovanni Paisiello Festival with Paisiello's La Claudia vendicata (Carmosina) conducted by Iason Marmaras; Victoria International Art Festival of Malta with unpublished music by Piccinni, Sarti, Isouard, Grétry, Méhul. She takes part in the first modern performance of Jacopo Melani's Ercole in Tebe (Iole) at the Teatro della Pergola in Florence; she is Aminta in Aminta e Fillide by Händel conducted by Rinaldo Alessandrini; Clarice in Astrologi immaginari by Paisiello at the Teatro Romano in Aosta (Martin Gester/Carlos Harmuch); Euridice in Orfeo by Luigi Rossi conducted by Elena Sartori. She makes her debut in the world premiere of Figli di un dio pazzo conducted by Antonio Greco with the ensemble Cremona Antiqua in Cremona for the Monteverdi Festival, at the Piccolo Teatro Strehler in Milan for the Trame d'Autore Festival, at the Teatro Storchi in Modena and at the Teatro della Tosse in Genoa. He inaugurates the “Giovanni Battista Lulli” Institute with Federico Maria Sardelli and the Modo Antiquo ensemble and is alongside the musicologist Sandro Cappelletto in the program Mozart, scenes from travels in Italy. Among his recordings, we note Olimpia abbandonata &otherCantatas, dedicated to the unpublished cantatas of Leonardo Vinci for Elegia Classic-London, La serva padrona (Serpina) and Amor vendicato (Gloria) by Paisiello for Bongiovanni and La Flora (Zeffiro) by Marco da Gagliano for Glossa.