Studies
Studies. He was born in Turin in 1996. He began playing classical guitar at the age of six. He was a student of Maurizio Colonna, who not only guided him in musical interpretation but also introduced him to composition. He graduated from the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Turin two years early with top marks and honors, also earning his classical high school diploma with highest honors. At twelve, he performed live on RAI Tre television. He also obtained a second-level degree in guitar from the Conservatory of L’Aquila, graduating with honors and distinction, under the guidance of Senio Díaz. He later furthered his studies with Eliot Fisk at the Chigiana Academy in Siena.
Gregorio also holds a degree with honors in theoretical philosophy from the University of Turinand earned a PhD from IUSS Pavia-University of Turin. In philosophy, his work focuses on classical metaphysics, hermeneutics, and musical aesthetics.
Concert Activity
From a very young age, he has been active in concert performances and has entered the musical world, recording his first album at seventeen (distributed by Egea) while simultaneously releasing various compositional albums. As a concert performer, he has played three times in the Plaza of the Cathedral of Granada with solo concerts; he performed, presenting his own compositions, at the Piccolo Teatro in Milan, introduced by Enrico Intra for the Italian Jazz Graffiti series, and at the Luigi Bocconi University in Milan.
In Spain, he has given concerts at the Conservatories of Granada and Malaga, at the International Music Festival of Toledo, and in other Spanish locations, also performing as a duo with Ángel Conde (piano professor at the Conservatorio Victoria Eugenia of Granada).
Composition and Tributes
As a composer, before the age of twenty, he published three albums of his own compositions, two in Italy (Bèrben, Mucchi: including a tribute to Italian theater through the figures of Vittorio Gassman, Carmelo Bene, and Franco Zeffirelli) and one in Spain.
Essayist and Lecturer
As an essayist, in 2014—at the age of seventeen—he published a work on musical aesthetics(Editoriale Scientifica). Building on these reflections, he has held seminars at the University of Salento, as well as at the University of Granada (on the Japanese composer Toru Takemitsu) and at the Higher Conservatory of Granada (on the concept of contemporaneity in music).
Awards, Recognitions, and Publications
In 2016, he was selected by the newspaper La Repubblica among the twenty most famous and successful Italian twenty-year-olds, chosen for the cover on the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of “D-donna”, for the special feature "Twenty Years Like Us".
In 2017, when Gregorio turned twenty, his mystery novel The Other Sound of the Shadow, featuring Andrés Segovia, was published by Mondadori. This novel, beyond being the first guitar-related book published in Italy by a major publisher, was presented on numerous public occasions and discussed by, among others, Gianni Vattimo, Margherita Oggero, Enrico Intra, and Armando Torno.
In January 2018, his album of original compositions Music to Me (L&C) was released, financed by winning the SIAE S’illumina funding program; in 2020, his album ΠΩΣ was released, again for Ema Records.
His latest album, Bach Recital (Ema Records), released in 2022, is entirely dedicated to Bach, including the Chaconne in Segovia's transcription.
He also translated the biography Abel Carlevaro. A New World in Guitar, by A. Escande (Ema Vinci Edizioni) from Spanish to Italian and curated a series of transcriptions for guitar.
In 2024, his new composite album Trittico, containing three original pieces, was released by Da Vinci Edizioni and distributed by Hal Leonard. A new theme and variations on the main theme from Il Postino, by Luis Bacalov, is forthcoming.
Since 2024, he plays a Ramírez Auditorio model guitar with a 664 mm scale length.
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