We are very much looking forward to you coming out to Australia but how did your iTunes festival performance go?

Very well. We had a fantastic reaction and I think we were all very happy, me and the band. It was very exciting to be on that stage. We played music from In a Time Lapse and we played some other compositions from different albums. In a way it was a variation of the concert I had been touring for the last month around the world. And partially the concert that I will bring to Sydney next week.

You grew up in Torino. Did you have a very musical childhood?

Yes, I lived in Torino until I was 18 and then I moved to Milano to continue my musical studies. My mother played piano at home. She was not a professional pianist but she came from a musical family. My grandfather, her father, was a composer and conductor. So music from this side of the family was always in the household.

You studied with Luciano Berio. Was that in Milano?

No, it was a bit later. He was living in Vienna and I was working there as an assistant. Sort of working and studying, and learning...