Roberto Prosseda combines his concert activity with frequent collaborations as an artistic consultant and creator of cultural projects of musical dissemination, often leveraging highly innovative ideas and formats.
He is one of the most active Italian musicians in the promotion of today's music also through the conception and realization of particular concert projects. In 2006 he commissioned new compositions based on unpublished fragments by Mendelssohn to various composers, including Carlo Boccadoro, Nicola Campogrande, Paolo Castaldi, Aldo Clementi, Luca Lombardi, Marcello Panni, Alessandro Solbiati, Gabrio Taglietti, Roberta Vacca. The compositions have been performed in more than ten countries. He also commissioned the reconstruction and completion of some unfinished compositions by Mendelssohn, such as the Concerto No. 3 for piano and orchestra, completed by Marcello Bufalini from 2006, which has been performed in more than 50 concerts, with orchestras such as the London Philharmonic, the Gewandhaus in Leipzig, Santa Cecilia in Rome. In 2012, following his pedal piano debut, Roberto Prosseda commissioned and performed numerous new compositions for pedal piano, dedicated to him by Michael Bakrnčev, Nimrod Borenstein, Nicola Campogrande, Cristian Carrara, Giuseppe Lupis, Ennio Morricone, Michael Glenn Williams. Since 1997 he has curated numerous concert projects for the Pontino Festival and the Campus Internazionale di Musica, devising the "Winter Concerts" seasons, held at the Teatro Comunale di Latina in 2006 and 2007, the "Mendelssohniana" project as part of the Festival Pontino 2009, the conference and the cycle of concerts on "Restoration in Music" in Sermoneta in 2010. In 2006 he gave birth to the "Mendelssohn Discovery Tour", a series of recitals in important European halls (including the Berlin Philharmonie, the Gewandhaus in Leipzig and the Wigmore Hall in London) with the presentation of more than 20 unpublished pieces by Mendelssohn in their first modern performance. In 2008 he was co-founder, together with Maurizio Cantore, of the volunteer project "Donators of Music", born from an idea of Gian Andrea Lodovici. He is currently the artistic coordinator of the Associazione Donatori di Musica, active in numerous Italian hospitals. The story of Donatori di Musica is told in the book "Donatori di Musica" (Curci editore, 2015). In 2009 Roberto Prosseda founded the Mendelssohn Association (www.associazionemendelssohn.it), of which he is currently president and artistic director. The Mendelssohn Association has made 7 recordings of Mendelssohn's music for the Decca label and has co-produced the documentary "Mendelssohn Unknown", in collaboration with Rai Educational, now published on DVD by Euroarts. In 2012 he conceived the innovative lesson-concert format in which he confronts the TeoTronico robot pianist, illustrating to the public the principles of musical expression on the piano, generating an aesthetic debate on the relationship between objectivity and subjectivity in musical interpretation. The project has been presented in more than 20 cities, including at the Berlin Philharmonie, Ankara and two sold-out concerts at the Beijing Concert Hall and Xing Hai Symphony Hall in Guangzhou. In 2014 he conceived and created the "Ghost Concert", presented as the inaugural event of Pianocity at the Teatro Mediterraneo in Naples: a multimedia project in which a piano recital by Sergej Rachmaninoff is recalled, with the "live" reproduction of the rolls he recorded, through a Yamaha Disklavier piano, synchronized with the moving images of Rachmaninoff's ghost. In collaboration with Ubyweb&Multimedia, he designed and created "iMendelssohn", the first app for iPhone and Android dedicated to Felix Mendelssohn, available free of charge since November 2015 on the App Store and Google Play. Since 2014 Roberto Prosseda has been the artistic advisor of Cremona Mondomusica and Cremona Pianoforte, and since 2018 he has assumed the role of artistic coordinator.