Italian conductor and pianist, born in Modena, Italy, in 1934.
Childhood friend of Luciano Pavarotti and his very first pianist back in 1960.
He also collaborated and played as a piano soloist with Herbert von Karajan, Otto Klemperer, Carlo Maria Giulini, Claudio Abbado, Carlos Kleiber and many others.
Married to his former student until their divorce in 1978.