Winner in 2025 of the Premio Abbiati, awarded by the Italian Musical Critics Association, and of the Classeek Award at the ICMA (International Classical Music Awards), Ettore is born in Rome in 2003, and began studying cello at the age of nine. Graduating with highest marks, honors, and Honourable mention at the Conservatory Santa Cecilia in Rome, Ettore also obtained the Artist Diploma at the W.Stauffer Academy in Cremona under the guidance of A.Meneses and previously, attended the Pavia Cello Academy with E.Dindo. A student of the Accademia Chigiana since 2019 under the guidance of Maestros A.Meneses and D.Geringas, he was awarded the Honorary Diploma.

He is currently attending J.P.Maintz courses at the UDK Berlin.

In June 2022 he was awarded First Prize, The Prize for Best Sonata and two other Special Prizes at the XVIII Kachaturian International Competition.

The most recent international recognition enriching his already substantial list of achievements includes Second Prize along with two special prizes — the Audience Award and the prize for the best Sonata — at the 2024 Enescu Cello Competition.

In addition to the aforementioned awards, he has won numerous prizes in national and international competitions since 2013. Notably, in 2020 he won first prize at the 27th J.Brahms International Competition, getting full marks from the jury in the final round, the first time this was awarded in the history of the competition, and also in 2020, he won the A.Kull Competition in Graz, Austria.

Also noteworthy are the first prize at the Competition for “Young Musicians” organized by the Filarmonica della Scala in Milano, the First Prize at the Jugend Musiziert 56th Bundeswettbewerb Competition, First Prize in addition to two special prizes, at the International Klaipeda Cello Competition 2019. In 2017 he was the winner of the second prize (1st not awarded) given by the New York International Artist Association, for which he was able to make his debut in the prestigious Carnegie Hall in New York.

he began an intense concert activity at an early age, playing Recitals and as a soloist in Italy and across the Europe, Asia, and United States, in institutions of the highest prestige, among which we mention his debut with the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI, both in Torino with live TV broadcast, and internationally at the Opera House in Muscat, and the debut with the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia. He has collaborated, among others, with the Düsseldorfer philhamoniker, Croatian Radiotelevision Symphony Orchestra, Graz Philharmonic, stuttgarter philarmoniker, Armenian State Symphony Orchestra, as well as invitations as soloist from numerous Italian orchestras, including the Haydn Orchestra, ORT, I Pomeriggi Musicali, and Orchestra Theaters of Bologna, Trieste, Genova. He has recently debuted at Teatro la Fenice in Venezia, with conductor K.Yamada, and among others, Ettore also collaborates with conductors such as A.Orozco-Estrada, L.Viotti, T.Guggeis, G.Pehlivanian, P.Inkinen, H.Haenchen, V.Alekseenok, F.Chaslin, D.Jurowski, D.Renzetti, A.Bonato, D.Ceretta, Lu Jia, A.Ioffe, M.Mariotti, G.Mengoli, E.Yashima, H.Soudant.

More occurrences of international relevance in 2025 are the “Una vita nella Musica – Giovani” prize from the Teatro La Fenice in Venice (with the “Life in Music” award given to R.Buchbinder) his invitations to the “Stars & Rising Stars” series in Munich and “Stars von Morgen” at the Brucknerhaus in Linz.

Ettore plays a 1777 Ignazio Ongaro cello (Venice), entrusted to him thanks initiative ‘Adopt a Musician’, conceived and financed by MusicMasterpieces SA - Lugano.