Hi! My name is Roberto Passarella, composer, arranger and bandoneón player. I am involved into music production and soundtracks.
In June 2014 I conducted my chamber composition “Mass Qoelet” in the Vatican Chancellory. The concert was broadcast by the Vatican Radio.
I am engaged in a large production of orchestral and chamber arrangements (with bandoneòn) of famous pieces of various genres, from popular songs to the tango repertoire. Some of them, like the Libertango arrangement, were played by various orchestras, among which the “Britten Sinfonia” Orchestra during the BBC Proms 2018 and the “Mitteleuropa Orchestra”.
My activity extends also to the production of soundtracks and compositional research on virtual orchestral music. An example is my Album “El Nuevo Tango Sinfonico”, for bandoneón and Symphony Orchestra, released by Centaur Records (USA).
Recently I arranged for Orchestra some of the most famous soundtracks of the composer Franco Micalizzi, including “Trinity” and “L’ultima neve di primavera”.
One of my latest works is "The Bandoneón Plays Famous Songs, that includes 7 very particular arrangements of 7 timeless songs, for bandoneón and symphony orchestra.
"Reminiscencias Rioplatenses" is my last Album, six of the most beautiful tangos arranged for bandoneón and symphony orchestra, including Libertango and Adios Nonino as a tribute to the anniversary of Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992).

I was born in Athens, and grew up in Santorini. I am currently a graduate student at the Graduate Program of Clinical Psychology (MSc) at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. I have studied Psychology (BA) at the same university, and in December 2017 I graduated as a valedictorian, getting an honors degree. For having the best score at the Panhellenic Examinations, in my Department, I was granted a full scholarship by the Hellenic American Union, in order to study Music Theory and Composition at the Hellenic American College, with prof. Theodore Antoniou. I also studied piano performance at the National Conservatory of Athens, with prof. Savvas Zafeiropoulos. I graduated last January, gaining the Piano Diploma (Unanimously “Excellent” and 1st Prize). I am academically interested in Freudian and structural (Lacanian) psychoanalysis. In specific, I am interested in the interference of the unconscious and desire in musical performance and creation, and in the depiction of various psychoanalytic principles via the music symbolic. I have taken part in academic lectures with speeches regarding the Oedipus complex and the problematics of the unconscious desire and “jouissance” in the works of Sergei Rachmaninoff and in “The Rite of Spring” by Igor Stravinsky.For my academic achievements, I have been honored with the “Pantia Ralli Scholarship” by the University of Athens and with the “President’s Award for Academic Achievement” by the Hellenic American College. 
I am simultaneously a Lacanian Psychoanalysis trainee at the Athenian Forum of the School of the Lacanian Field (IF-EPFCL).

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