The Italian Cultural Institute in Lebanon, in collaboration with the Lebanese National Higher Conservatory of Music and under the patronage of the Italian Embassy, is organizing a piano workshop with Maestro Roberto Prosseda, aimed at both piano graduates and advanced-level students.
The beneficiaries of this workshop will be seven students from the Lebanese National Higher Conservatory of Music, with which the IIC regularly collaborates, and where there is also an Italian language course for Bel Canto students.
The workshop is part of the long-standing tradition of the Institute in offering music students from various local institutions the opportunity to refine their skills by studying with Italian artists invited by the Institute to perform in Lebanon. Workshops also provide an opportunity for local institutions to establish contacts with the Italian musical world and its excellence, further strengthening the bonds of friendship and collaboration between the two countries.
BIOGRAPHY: Roberto Prosseda
Roberto Prosseda is one of the most active and versatile Italian musicians on the current international scene. He gained international fame following his Decca CDs dedicated to the piano music of Felix Mendelssohn. Over the past twenty years Roberto has performed regularly with some of the world’s leading orchestras, including the London Philharmonic, New Japan Philharmonic, Moscow State Philharmonic, Santa Cecilia, Filarmonica della Scala, Brussels Philharmonic, Residentie Orkest, Netherlands Symphony, Berliner Symphoniker, Staatskapelle Weimar, Calgary Philharmonic, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Leipzig Gewandhaus. With the Gewandhaus Orchester conducted by Riccardo Chailly, he recorded the unpublished Concerto in E minor by Mendelssohn, published by Decca in September 2009. His recording of Mozart Sonatas, recorded on Fazioli piano with unequal Vallotti tuning (6 Decca CDs, 2015-18), has received considerable international acclaim. In 2022 Roberto completed the recording of Mozarts’ complete piano works in 11 CDs. Since 2011, he has also played the piano-pedalier in public, having rediscovered and presented in modern premieres various pieces by Alkan and the Concert by Charles Gounod for piano-pedalier and orchestra. Roberto Prosseda gave 100 concerts with the pedal piano, contributing to the rediscovery of the instrument and its repertoire. He is currently artistic director of Cremona Musica International Exhibitions (Italy) and of Patmos Chamber Music Festival (Greece), which he co-founded in 2022.