Background
His father, Giuseppe Agostini, was a composer and conductor and it is from him that he had his inititial musical training beginning at age 5.
His father, Giuseppe Agostini, was a composer and conductor and it is from him that he had his inititial musical training beginning at age 5.
At age three, Agostini moved with his family to Montreal. He later pursued further studies in harmony and composition with Louis Michiels and Henri Miro and in cello with Peter Van der Meerschen. At 16, Agostini was playing with the Montreal Philharmonic Orchestra as a cellist and was a part-time band player in a nightclub band playing saxophone and clarinet.
lieutenant is at 18 years of age that he began his professional music career working first with Canadian Broadcasting Corporation radio and later with television
Agostini began a long career with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in Toronto from 1943, beginning with radio work, and subsequently the broadcaster"s United States-based television programs through the 1950s. He partook in the production of Front Page Challenge, The Tommy Ambrose Show and The World of Music.