Pierpaolo Ferroni, in 1994, won a scholarship to the Musician Institute in Los Angeles (ranked first in the Artists Without Frontiers event).

On that occasion he played on the Musician Institute auditorium stage with Oscar Cartaya (Spyro Gyra) and Toss Panos (Steve Vai Band) and Ruggero Robin (who himself won first place in the guitarist category).

In 1998, he began studying with one of the most important and innovative Drums teachers in the world-Mr. Gary Chaffee (teacher of Vinnie Colaiuta, Steve Smith, Joey Kramer, Teacher's) taking part in the first Gary Chaffee Drum Department project based in Italy (Percussion, January 2000).

Some of his collaborations: Vittorio Grigolo, Alberto Giraldi, Riccardo Fassi, Alex Lo Foco, Gianluca Ferro, Mattias Eklundh, Greg Howe, Dean Bowman, Napoleon Murphy Brock, Ramberto Ciammarughi, Alex Britti, Pino Jodice, Stefano Bollani, Vincenzo De Filippo, Frankie Hi-nrg mc, Massimo Moriconi, Luigino Leonardi, Franco Tinto, Orchestra Operaia, Otto Ohm...