Roberto Cacciapaglia was born in Milan. He graduated in composition from the "Giuseppe Verdi" Conservatory of his city, where he also studied conducting and electronic music. Over the years he worked at the studio of Phonology of Rai and collaborated with the CNR (National Research Council) in Pisa where he studied computer applications in the field of music.

Composer and pianist, he is a key protagonist on the international scene of the most innovative music, his compositions blending electronic experimental music with the classical tradition. For many years he has been researching the powers of sound, leading towards a music beyond frontiers expressed through deep emotional contact.

Roberto Cacciapaglia has huge successes with his live performances in Italy and abroad. A testimony is his tour in Russia, with concerts in Moscow and San Petersburg which received an extraordinary reception by the Russian public, and the following concerts in Barcelona, Bratislava, Ankara Piano Festival and Istanbul, where he taught several seminars and workshops at the Turkish Music State Conservatory.

Frequent guest of "La Milanesiana" byElisabetta Sgarbi, he perform several concerts, like the one with the Nobel Prize for literature Derek Walcott, and "Mente Radiosa", composed for the evening with Rita Levi Montalcini, Nobel Prize for Medicine.

Roberto Cacciapaglia performs his own compositions in the most prestigious theatres and most famous institutions in Italy and in the world, among others: Teatro Comunale in Bologna, Conservatory in Milan, Accademia di Santa Cecilia of Rome, Berliner Festspiele in Berlin, Festival in Tel Aviv, Festival of Campinas in Brazil, Passatge de la Pau in Barcelona, Spoleto Festival, Lingotto in Turin, Milan Cathedral, Teatro San Carlo in Naples, Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, Auditorium Parco della Musica in Rome, Teatro degli Arcimboldi in Milan, World Event Abu Dhabi, Teatro Carignano in Turin, Maiden Tower in Baku in Azerbaijan, Teatro Bibiena in Mantua, Ravello Festival, Teatro Morlacchi in Perugia, International House of Music in Moscow, Belozerskih Palace in St. Petersburg, Conservatory in Istanbul, Palazzo Reale in Milan, Auditorium of the Slovak National Radio in Bratislava, Ankara Piano Festival, Teatro del Giglio in Lucca, Open Air theatre – Expo Milano 2015 and many others.

Roberto Cacciapaglia is also founder of the Educational Music Academy with the aim of giving a voice to young musical talents, composers and performers, pianists and musicians in order to give shape to their projects and to achieve professional mastery in their works.