"His music is an expression of his uncommonly wide emotional range coupled with one of the sharpest intellects known to man. ...... For me he is first and foremost an operatic composer ... his instrumental writing is permeated by 'dramatic' elements. In so many of (his) piano works I hear strains of a 'Figaro', a 'Papageno' and other major characters.... At the same time, the writing is always marvellously pianistic and natural....as if (he) understood life and its purpose and his approach to it was one of reverence, joy and optimism."(Martino Tirimo)