The classical studies with Ugo Maria Palanza and Vittoriano Esposito and the meetings with the Dominican theologian F. Innocenzo Colosio, pupil of Réginald Garrigou-Lagrange, and Isaac Stern were decisive for his formation.

He participated with very high ratings in popular programs [11] and the critics recognized him that, despite the "lightness" of these occasions, he gave up nothing of the rigor of the classical artist [12].

He conducted a popular column for Mattino Cinque, some excerpts of which were collected in the album "Petrolio", and he also played with Italian pop and jazz stars like Lucio Dalla, Simona Molinari and Sergio Cammariere.

In 2018, the consequences of three vertebral fractures forced him to retire from concert activity [10] and it was the former Secretary of the Italian Council of Ministers Gianni Letta who understood his institutional capacities too and since then started him on the management and artistic direction career.

[11] On February 10, 2021, it was his initiative that led the world of performing arts, for the first time in the history of the Italian Republic, to consultations for the formation of the new government by the appointed Prime Minister Mario Draghi.