Antonio was born
in Naples in
1961. In 1985 he was awarded ‘Summa cum Laude’ at the D. Cimarosa Conservatory
in Avellino, Italy. From 1983 to 1990 he
attended Master Classes by Eliot Fisk in Florence,
at the Vienna Conservatory and at the Salzburg Mozarteum. He gave his first
concert in 1980 and apart from playing all over Europe, since 2000 he has been
regularly holding tours in the USA.
He has won first prize in several guitar competitions including Pesaro (2nd National Contest, 1981), Bardolino
(4th International Contest, 1981) and Genoa (4th National Contest ‘P.
Taraffo’, 1984). He was the first guitarist in the world to have performed the
entire ‘24 Caprices’ by N. Paganini
in one single concert (Avellino, Italy, 1992).
