Roberto Prosseda, born in Latina in 1975, is one of the most active and multifaceted Italian musicians on the current international scene. 

He gained international notoriety following his Decca CDs dedicated to the piano music of Felix Mendelssohn, which he recorded in their entirety on 10 CDs (2005 - 2014), released in a single box set in 2017 ("Mendelssohn Complete Piano Works"). 

Over the past twenty years Roberto Prosseda 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, Bruxelles Philharmonic, Residentie Orkest, Netherlands Symphony, Berliner Symphoniker, Staatskapelle Weimar, Calgary Philharmonic, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Leipzig Gewandhaus. He has performed under the baton of David Afkham, Marc Albrecht, Christian Arming, Harry Bickett, Oleg Caetani, Riccardo Chailly, Pietari Inkinen, Yannik Nezeit-Seguin, George Pehlivanian, Dennis Russel-Davies, Tugan Sokhiev, Jurai Valcuha, Jan Willem de Vriend.  

With the Gewandhaus Orchester conducted by Riccardo Chailly he recorded Mendelssohn's Unpublished Concerto in E minor, published by Decca in September 2009. In Italy he is a regular guest of the major concert institutions, including the Accademia di Santa Cecilia, the Teatro alla Scala, the Unione Musicale di Torino, the Teatro la Fenice, the Accademia Chigiana in Siena, the Teatro Comunale in Bologna.  

Prosseda is also particularly appreciated in the interpretations of Mozart, Schubert, Schumann, Chopin, authors to whom he has also dedicated himself in his most recent Decca recordings. His recording of Mozart's Sonatas, recorded on Fazioli piano with Vallotti unequal tuning (6 CD Decca, 2015-18), has received considerable international acclaim. In 2022 he completed the recording of all of Mozart's piano music. 

In 2010 Deutsche Grammophon selected twelve recordings by Prosseda for inclusion in the "Classic Gold" box set, released in May 2010. 

Since 2011 he has also played the piano-pédalier in public, having rediscovered and presented in modern premiere various pieces by Alkan and Charles Gounod's Concerto for piano-pédalier and orchestra with the Toscanini Philharmonic of Parma, and which he has reperformed with the Berliner Symphoniker, the Staatskapelle in Weimar, the Lahti Philharmonic, the Netherlands Symphony Orchestra. He has given over 100 concerts and recitals with the pedal piano all over the world.  

Roberto Prosseda is equally active as a music popularizer, being also the creator of innovative and international musical programming.

He is the creator and co-author of three television documentaries, directed by Angelo Bozzolini, produced by RAI and distributed internationally by Euroarts, dedicated to Mendelssohn, Chopin and Liszt. For RAI5 he created the cycle of lecture-concerts "Dentro La Musica", also involving some of his best students in the episodes dedicated to Italian piano music.

His book "Il Pianoforte", a guide to listening to the piano repertoire, was published by Curci in 2013.

He is the artistic director and co-founder of the "Donatori di Musica" project. In 2023/24 he was artistic consultant of the Teatro Comunale "Giuseppe Verdi" in Pordenone. He is currently the artistic director of Cremona Musica International Exhibitions & Festival and of the Patmos Music Festival, of which he is co-founder.  

Roberto Prosseda regularly holds master classes in Italian conservatories and foreign universities, including Yale, UCLA, and Beijing Central Conservatory.  He is currently the director of the II Level Master "Play & Rec" and of the Ph.D. "Italian Piano Music" at the Venezze Conservatory in Rovigo.