CURRENT MISSION

To bring the best possible live music to the world!

ABOUT ME

Young pro musician, Hammond organ player and piano teacher, I'm from Italy and now live in Berlin, I love to travel and to play music abroad.

Usually friendly and open to fun, unless "extreme", but also very responsible,when I say "I'll be there, I'll do that" you can count on me delivering.

PHILOSOPHY

You are who you want to be.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Now that I have a home again I find it can be funny to host travelers from time to time.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Experience? Well, I slept on a couple of couches and found those comfortable enough…Better than benchs in the park, for sure!

Interests

I'm an avid reader (especially of SF of the serious "reflective" kind), I like acting, practicing Aikido, swimming, diving, sailing and of course playing music. I also used to be an hacker (white hat…those are the "good ones", if you don't know the term) and programmer when I was a teen, but it seems like another life now.

I love to bring a well oiled band out and play to thousands but also to jam in a dig in front of four friends, I can spend a night walking down the river or a morning working on an exotic piece of software, I like listening to good music and can read a book for six hours, if it's good.

I like spending a night talking about odd philosophies with an old friend or just laughing in front of a good drink.

• books
• literature
• coffee
• walking
• drinking
• movies
• traveling
• music
• live music
• jazz
• blues
• software

Music, Movies, and Books

Music:
Procol Harum
Blackmore's Night
Allman Brothers
Aretha Franklin
Jimmy Smith
Fred Buscaglione
Fabrizio De André

Book authors:
Mikhail Bulgakov (especially The Master and Margarita, of course!)
Philip Dick
David Brin
Robert Heinlein

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Playing with members of Procol Harum and Jethro Tull and with a full fledged orchestra.

Teach, Learn, Share

Teach:
Well, keyboards, of course!
Can also provide some music related advice, possibly (songwriting, arranging, learning songs, ear training, orchestrating).

Used to do English teaching when I lived in Italy, could of course do Italian, perhaps.

Also know quite a few things about computers, especially Macs and UNIX (eg: Linux) systems.

Would like to learn to play bass right now…And well, I love learning anyway! I think it's important to learn something new each day.

What I Can Share with Hosts

I can share some time and some laughs. And good coffee of course.

And hopefully some good stories!

Countries I’ve Visited

Egypt, Germany, Japan, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, Italy, United Kingdom