His composition Nagasaki won the Bourges Electronic Music Competition, and Marrying Music won the and Viotti-Valsesia International Music Competition award.
Son of Giacomo Loro Piana and Clementina Zignone, still young he moved with his parents to Valsesia from the native Trivero; here Loro Piana brought the Biella tradition of making wool that his family cultivated for decades.
After having received two other relevant tributaries, the Ponzone in Pray from right and the Strona di Postua in Crevacuore from left, it enters into the Valsesia and flows into the river Sesia near Borgosesia.
These are: Gressoney-La-Trinité, Gressoney-Saint-Jean and Issime (Lys Valley, in the Aosta Valley); Formazza, Macugnaga (Verbano-Cusio-Ossola province); Alagna Valsesia, Rima San Giuseppe, Rimella (Sesia Valley or Valsesia, in Vercelli province).