Roberta Pandolfi, an emerging Italian pianist, is active as a soloist and chamber musician, particularly in contemporary music. For several years, she has collaborated with iconic artists such as Irvine Arditti and Kirill Rodin. She has performed, among others, at the Herkulessaal in Munich as a soloist with the Kammerphilarmonie Dacapo playing Beethoven’s Concerto No. 4 Op. 58, at the Grand Hall of the Liszt Academy in Budapest as a soloist with the Szolnok Symphony Orchestra, in Baku with the Azerbaijan State Philharmonic Orchestra for the Azerbaijani premiere of Sergei Prokofiev’s Concerto No. 5 Op. 55 broadcasted nationally, at the Lotte Concert Hall in Seoul with the Euroasia Trio (featuring Sarm Kim on violin and Kirill Rodin, winner of the Tchaikovsky Prize in 1986, on cello), in Rome with the Olimpia Orchestra at the Quirinale in the presence of the President of the Italian Republic Sergio Mattarella, at the Auditorium A. Toscanini in Turin where she gave a lecture-concert on Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 Op. 58, alongside Massimo Bernardini and the National Symphony Orchestra of Rai, with the Orquesta Sinfonica de la Region de Murcia in a duo with Theodosia Ntokou, with Anastasya Petryshak and Olimpia for Pesaro 2024 Italian Capital of Culture. She has also performed for various prestigious venues and events including Società dei Concerti di Milano, Bologna Festival, Bologna Modern, Bari Piano Festival, Festival Pianistico Bartolomeo Cristofori, Amici della musica di Palermo, Teatro di Lugo “Rossini Open”, Wörthersee Classics (Klagenfürt Konzxerthaus), MDW Wien, Festival Entre Quintas (Portugal), Promusica Aguilas (Spain), Festival dei Due Mondi, Amici della Musica di Udine, Divertimento Ensemble, Museo del Novecento, Ferrara Piano Festival, Piano City Milano, Armonie della Sera, Teatro di Orleans (France), Castello di Wolfsburg (Germany) and with orchestras such as the Marchigiana Philharmonic Orchestra, Rossini Symphony Orchestra, Eurosinfonietta Wien, Olimpia Orchestra, Wunderkammer Orchestra, Corelli Orchestra, conducted by Yurij Yanko, Yalchin Adigezalov, Franz Shottky, Carlo Tenan, Desar Sulejmani, Octavio J. Peidrò, Vincente Ariño, Daniele Rossi, Francesca Perrotta, Alicia Galli, Noris Borgogelli.

Her interviews and performances have been broadcasted by all national Rai radio and TV stations, Sky Arte, and France Musique. She has recorded music by Danilo Comitini for the record labels Stradivarius and Da Vinci. Since 2023, she has been an artist with the record label Odradek Records, with whom she has already released a record featuring Irvine Arditti and Gianluca Pirisi dedicated to Wolfgang Rihm.

Since its foundation in 2018, she has been the Artistic Director of Orchestra Olimpia, a female symphonic ensemble focusing on music, human rights, and gender equality, with particular attention to the training of female musicians from disadvantaged countries, partnering with Pesaro 2024 Italian Capital of Culture. For Olimpia, Roberta Pandolfi conceives and manages musical and solidarity projects. She is currently a lecturer at the “L. Perosi” Conservatory in Campobasso and regularly serves as a judge in national competitions.

Graduating with honors from the “G. Rossini” Conservatory in Pesaro under the guidance of Maestro Giovanni Valentini, she furthered her studies in the classical-romantic repertoire at the International Piano Academy “Incontri col Maestro” in Imola and at the Pinerolo Piano Academy with Maestros Enrico Pace and Leonid Margarius. She obtained a second-level university specialization diploma in Solo Piano in Contemporary Music from the Academy of Music in Pinerolo with a score of 110 with honors and a special mention, under the guidance of Emanuele Arciuli, Nicholas Hodges, Tamara Stefanovich, and Massimiliano Damerini. She has attended numerous masterclasses, receiving praise from distinguished musicians including Pavel Gililov, Andrej Jasinski, Leslie Howard, Andrea Bonatta, and Maria Grazia Bellocchio.