 Following the suggestion of the soloist Jean-Jacques Kantorow, Francesco De Angelis further pursued his studies with Tibor Varga at the "Académie de Musique Tibor Varga" in Sion, Switzerland.Aged nineteen, he gained the position of co-leader of Teatro alla Scala Orchestra.In 1993, he was unanimously awarded first prize at the "21st Concorso Nazionale di Violino Città di Vittorio Veneto".