Conductor, composer, flutist, musicologist, painter, engraver and essayist. He is the principal conductor of the Baroque Academy of S. Cecilia [Rome] and a regular guest of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, the Teatro La Fenice, the Moscow State Chamber Orchestra and many other theatres. He founded the Modo Antiquo Baroque Orchestra in 1984. He has recorded more than forty records for Naïve, Deutsche Grammophon, Sony, Glossa, Dynamic, Brilliant. Twice nominated for Grammy Awards (1997, 2000). He has recorded the first world performances of numerous unpublished Vivaldi works. He is a member of the Vivaldi Institute of the G. Cini Foundation in Venice and responsible for the Vivaldi Catalog (RV). His musical and musicological publications are numerous for Bärenreiter, Olschki, Ricordi, SPES, Sellerio. His historical novel L’affare Vivaldi (Sellerio) won the Comisso Prize for Fiction and became a longseller, translated into many languages.