Born on december the 26th 1980, Daniele started studying drums at 8 and had his first professional experiences as a young boy. Today he has a fairly wide background in many and varied musical styles. Among meetings and collaborations with foreign artists are Matthew Garrison, Dan Moretti (USA), Dominic Di Piazza (France), Brett Garsed (Australia), Wojtek Pilichowski, Marek Raduli (Poland); among my Italian friends are William Stravato, Salvatore Russo, Saturnino, Daniele Di Gregorio, Pippo Matino, Alfredo Paixao, 4MX, Paolo Licastro, Peppe Barra, Lino Cannavacciuolo, Daniele Sepe, Riccardo Tesi, Piccola Orchestra La Viola.



In his early twenties Daniele was hired by RAI television and recorded the original music for "Cuccioli" ("Puppies"), a TV series he took part as supporting actor too. Quite a few other TV appearances followed on National Radio's and TV's, as side-man for several artists.



Daniele played at many of the most important Italian Festivals (Premio Recanati, Umbria Jazz, Pomigliano Jazz, Udine Jazz) and at the most important European Music Meetings, such as Frankfurt Musik Messe, Disma Music Show, European Bass Day, Sound Expo, Sib, Sol Music, Wembley Drummerlive, Muzyczna Owczarnia. Nowadays he has an intense program as a clinician and in 2005-2006 with the Tamburo Demo Tour he played at 80 events in Europe, mostly in Italy, Germany and England.



Besides his session- and clinic career he also is a soloist and composer.