Born in 1980 he started playing music since he was 4. He got his first electric guitar at the age of 9 and started playing along his heroes like Van Halen and Europe, just to name a few. In 1992 he switched to drums which helped him a lot in rhythmic knowledge. He switched back to guitar at 16 and never looked. He has worked as session player in Italy for a lot of artists and was part of one of the top World Music bands ever, “Nuova Compagnia di Canto Popolare”, touring extensively with them around the world. Nowadays he is the guitar player of Dream Theater’s vocalist James LaBrie, for which he recorded guitar tracks on his latest solo album entitled “Elements of Persuasion”. Since then he had the luck to record and/or appear on records with such names as Simon Phillips, Greg Bissonette, Matt Bissonette, Alex Argento, Matt Guillory, Jordan Rudess, John Macaluso, Vitalij Kuprij, Randy Coven and many more. When not touring or recording he teaches extensively in his area. Marco actually is endorsed by: Rash guitars, Mesa/Boogie amps, DiMarzio pickups, MI-Audio pedals and Alien Pedalboards.