Roberto Prosseda is one of the most active pianists on the international concert scene. He has recorded the complete piano works of Mendelssohn for Decca and is the only one to hold concerts with the pedal piano, an instrument he brought back to light after a century of oblivion.
He is currently the only musician who regularly gives concerts on the pedal piano. Also called piano-pédalier or Pedalflügel, it is a double piano, equipped with a pedalboard similar to an organ, connected to a second piano. It is an instrument dear to Mozart, Schumann and Alkan, which fell into disuse at the beginning of the twentieth century and has now been revived by Prosseda himself. Prosseda made his pedal piano debut on 11 September 2011, presenting the first modern performance of Charles Gounod’s Concerto in E flat major (1893) for pedal piano and orchestra, with the Parma Toscanini Philharmonic conducted by Jan Latham Koenig. On April 20, 2012, the Wall Street Journal dedicated an entire page to his rediscovery project of the piano-pédalier repertoire (Mozart, Schumann, Alkan, Gounod) and of the instrument itself.
In this concert he brings to the stage a repertoire including Mozart, Schumann, Liszt and Alkan.
