 Moreover, as member of the Italian National Union of Composers, Librettists and Authors he co-founded ECSA, the European Composer and Songwriter Alliance, and between 2011 and 2017 he was president of CIAM, the International Council of Music Authors.In 2017, he was appointed honorary president of CIAM.Lorenzo Ferrero was described in "The New Grove Dictionary of Opera" as "the most successful opera composer of his generation in Italy" and in "The New Penguin Opera Guide" as "a principal exponent of the neo-tonal tendencies common to a number of Italian composers of his generation, who has championed a brand of narrative music-theatre that aims to capture a wider audience than that achieved by the heirs of the modernist tradition."