Born in Messina in Italy, Roberto Metro obtained his piano diploma in Messina Conservatory with distinction and a special mention, studying under the guidance of Sonja Pahor. He perfected his studies with Maria Tipo and Eliodoro Sollima, which whom he also studied composition.

From a very early age he was a prize-winner in several international piano competitions and thus started on a brilliant career.

Roberto Metro is regulary invited in major cities all over the world: New York, Washington, London, Paris, Tokyo, Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, Montevideo, Brussels, Athens, Rome, Madrid, Barcelona, Amsterdam, Prague, Budapest, Stockholm, Helsinki, St Petersburg, Bucharest, Munich, etc.

In 2006, during his tour in United States, Roberto Metro performed at Carnegie Hall in New York.

He has performed as a soloist with important orchestras including the String Orchestra of the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Slovenian Radiotelevision Symphony Orchestra, the "London Musical Arts" String Orchestra, the Budapest "Camerata Transsylvanica", the Linz "Camerata Austriaca" Orchestra, the San Luis Potosí - Mexico Symphony Orchestra...wich such conductors as Anton Nanut, Urs Schneider, Juan Rodríguez Romero, Ovidiu Balan, Adrian Sunshine, Valentin Doni, Jaroslav Vodňanský, Gabriele Ferro, Massimo Pradella and Piero Toso.

He has made recordings for numerous radio and television corporations all over the world.

Roberto Metro has recorded a CD of the complete Chopin waltzes for the Italian Discographic Institute and, for the Musikseminar of Munich, a CD containing waltzes, polkas and marches by the Strauss family in his own transcriptions for four hands at the piano.