TERESA PROCACCINI is the composer of a vast production, (over 180 works), including operas, symphonic pieces, chamber works, band and symphonic band works, teaching works which have been performed both in Italy and abroad. After having been awarded her diploma in piano and organ (with Fernando Germani) and in composition (with Virgilio Mortari), in 1971 and 1972 she directed the Foggia Conservatory and up to 2001 she has been teacher of composition at the “Santa Cecilia” Conservatory in Rome.
She has won national and international competitions and has held specialisation courses in composition at the Festival of Citta di Castello, at the Respighi Academy in Assisi, at the Internationalen Meisterkursen in Diiren (Germany) and the Frentana Music Summer in Lanciano.
Her works have been published by Sonzogno, Zanibon, Edipan, Carisch, Bongiovanni, Curci, Leduc, Seesaw, Rugginenti, Scomegna, Pizzicato Helvetia, Bassoon Heritage, Wicky, Carrara. She has produced a remarkable quantity of music for children (short teaching operas, musical fables with reciting voice, works for boys' choir and piano, many pieces for young instrumentalists (strings and winds) and teaching books with tapes) published by Armando and Gulliver. She has composed sound tracks for theatrical works and for cartoons for RAI television. Almost all her works has been recorded by Edipan, Bongiovanni, Edizioni Paoline, Electrecord of Bucharest, Rugginenti, Grammofon AB BIS of Stockholm, Nuova Era, Scomegna, Altarus (U.S.A.), Lira Classica M.P.A.
She has also been successful in organising concerts and since 1972 is Artistic Director of the Foggia Association of “Friends of Music” and consultant to many Associations in Italy. She conceived the touring rewiew of “Lady Composer of Past and Present”. She is often guest of Juries (as President or member) of various national and international prizes and as speaker of musicology Conference.
Among contemporary composers I may be the one who is most determined to conserve links with the past generation whilst still being set upon the constant acquisition of the new. Tradition, modernity, respect for formal classical values, the search for new sounds: these are constants in my idiom which strives to maintain a balance between the different factors. Some critics have seen in my works a stylistic coherency that is remarkable in the context of contemporary music, characterised (at least till to decade ago) as it is by a proliferation of various avant-garde experiences that in time have often proved sterile. Indeed, my work as a composer is not conditioned by avant-garde research into new creative processes, for I have constructed a complete and congenial expressive language of my own. The reasons for my artistic attitude lie in respect for values which may be considered inseparable from the very idea of music. More precisely: Music as structure: the elaboration of structural elements in a construction which is comprehensible to the listener, having as its basic value completeness rather than complexity. Rejection of those modes of composition in which the concept of form is driven to its extreme limits such that the very idea of comprehensibility is prejudiced, either destroyed or rendered so complex as to be difficult to perceive in the score of the composition. Music as an essential language of expression must be music which involves the emotional processes of the listener (communication with whom is of the utmost importance). My music is therefore conceived in line with the more classical aesthetic ideals and is characterised by incisive timbre, clarity of patterns, a fluency that is alien to cultural trends, linked to melodic lyricism that opens out in ample lines. These elements bring to my music quite a high level of emotive tension which both facilitates and encourages comprehension. (Teresa Procaccini)

Teresa Procaccini e' autrice di una vasta produzione, circa 160 composizioni, eseguite in Italia ed ancor piu' all'estero. Dagli 8 anni si dedico' allo studio del pianoforte, del violino e alla composizione. A 12 anni ebbe la soddisfazione di veder trasmesso dalla RAI uno dei suoi primi lavori. Diplomata in pianoforte, organo e composizione presso il conservatorio “S. Cecilia” di Roma, ha diretto il Conservatorio “Giordano” di Foggia e attualmente insegna composizione al Conservatorio “S. Cecilia”.
Questi i suoi lavori piu' significativi: opere liriche, musiche sinfoniche e sinfonico - corali, composizioni per orchestra d'archi, composizioni da camera per archi, fiati e pianoforte, fiabe musicali, pezzi per chitarra, varie composizioni per banda e pubblicazioni didattiche stampate da Sonzogno, Zanibon, Edipan, Bongiovanni, Curci, Leduc, Seesaw, Rugginenti, Agenda, Pizzicato Helvetia, Bassoon Heritage, Scomegna, Wicky, Armando, Gulliver.
Quasi tutte le sue composizioni sono incise da Edipan, Bongiovanni, Nuova Era, Electrecord di Bucarest, Ed. Paoline, Grammofon AB BIS di Stoccolma, Altarus (U.S.A.).
Premiata in concorsi nazionali ed internazionali, ha tenuto corsi di perfezionamento presso importanti Festivals e Accademie.
Si e' anche dedicata all'organizzazione di concerti e dal 1972 al 1998 e' stata Direttore artistico dell'Associazione Amici della Musica di Foggia, oltre che consulente di molte Associazioni in Puglia e nel Lazio. Ha ideato la Rassegna itinerante “Compositrici di ieri e di oggi”. E' spesso invitata a far parte di Giurie di Concorsi nazionali ed internazionali.
Teresa Procaccini e' autrice di “Mutazioni” per violino e pianoforte op. 160, Rugginenti Editore - Milano, brano d'obbligo del XX Concorso internazionale di violino “Premio Rodolfo Lipizer”
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