Considered one of the best Italian music popularizers, he is a composer, pianist and musicologist. He collaborates with the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, has taught composition at the Conservatorio “V. Bellini” in Catania and Ethnomusicology at the University of Urbino “Carlo Bo.” He regularly gives lectures and in particular concert-conferences, directly at the piano, at many of the most prestigious Italian institutions: the Teatro alla Scala, the MITO Settembre Musica Festival, the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, and the Teatro La Fenice in Venice.

Giovanni Carlo Federico Villa, university professor, is director of Palazzo Madama in Turin and president of the Ateneo di Scienze Lettere ed Arti in Bergamo. A former member of the Superior Council for Cultural and Landscape Heritage of the Ministry of Culture (2019-2022), he was honorary director of the Civic Museums of Vicenza (2015-2018) and for the Scuderie del Quirinale in Rome he curated the exhibitions Antonello da Messina (2006), Giovanni Bellini (2008), Lorenzo Lotto (2011), Tintoretto (2012) and Titian (2013), as well as numerous exhibition projects in Italy and abroad. He is the author of more than three hundred publications and important monographs. His popular appearances related to the national artistic heritage on major Italian and foreign radio and television channels are numerous.