Diego Procoli

Diego Procoli has graduated with honours in Piano at the Conservatorio “A. Casella” of L’Aquila (Italy), where he has obtained also his Master Degree in Piano “summa cum laude” under the guidance of Elena Matteucci. He has studied with Nina Tichman (Piano), Anthony Spiri and Roglit Ishay (Piano Chamber Music) at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz in Köln (Germany) and has attended masterclasses and piano courses with Orazio Maione, Carlo Grante, Fausto di Cesare, Mariangela Vacatello, Pier Narciso Masi and Konstantin Bogino. He has studied also Harpsichord with Andrea Coen and Fortepiano with Costantino Mastroprimiano, as well as Music Theory and Composition with Matteo d’Amico and Claudio Perugini at the Conservatorio of L’Aquila.

As soloist or as pianist in chamber groups he has performed for several Concert Seasons and Festivals in Italy and abroad, such as the Concert Season of Società dei Concerti “Bonaventura Barattelli” (L’Aquila), the Festival di Mezza Estate (Tagliacozzo), the Estate Musicale Frentana (Chieti), the Teatro Principal di Castellon de la Plana (Spain), il Riojaforum of Logroño (Spain), the Rome Chamber Music Festival, the Concert Season of “I Solisti Aquilani” Orchestra, the Polish Institut of Culture and the Embassy of Poland in Rome and Malta, the Auditorium della Conciliazione and the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia of Rome and the RAI – Radiotelevisione italiana.

In 2006 he has attended the Opera Accompanist and Correpetition Course chaired by Robert Kettleson at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia. Since 2010 he contributes as pianist for for the Master Cours in Opera Singing of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia of Rome held by Renata Scotto and its opera productions (Così fan tutte of W. A. Mozart, 2010; The Cunning Little Vixen of L. Janacek 2011, Gianni Schicchi of G. Puccini and L’Heure espagnole of M. Ravel 2012). He has partecipated to the opera productions of the Concert Season “I Mercoledì della Cattolica” of Rome, of the Istituzione Sinfonica Abruzzese (L’Aquila), of the Artincanto Festival (Teramo), of the Associazione “Tito Gobbi” Magie dell’Opera Project (Don Giovanni of W. A. Mozart, 2011), of the Reate Festival (Il Campanello of G. Donizetti, 2010; Adina of G. Rossini, 2012; Anna Bolena of G. Donizetti and Un Giorno di Regno of G. Verdi, 2013) and of the Teatro Real Madrid Season (Clemenza di Tito of W. A. Mozart, 2011) working under the musical direction of conductor such as Carlo Rizzari, Thomas Hengelbrock and Fabio Biondi. He has also been piano accompanist of Master Courses in Singing of Elena Cecchi Fedi, Luciano di Pasquale, Luca Canonici, Anna Vandi, Sylvia Sass e Bernadette Manca di Nissa.

In 2009 he has graduated summa cum laude in Literature and History of Music at the University of L’Aquila and he is attending the Master Course in Musicology of the University of Rome – La Sapienza. As musicologist and music journalist he contributes with Società dei Concerti “B. Barattelli” of L’Aquila, the Festival “W. A. Mozart” of Rovereto, the Istituzione Universitaria dei Concerti (IUC) and Oratorio del Gonfalone of Rome, as well as for newspapers and music magazines like MUSICA of Stephen Hastings. He is press agent of the Conservatorio “A. Casella” of L’Aquila and for the Alessandro Casagrande International Piano Competition of Terni.