Roberta Di Giacomo began studying cello at the age of five under the guidance of Maestra Cinzia De Chiara, graduating in 2017 from the Conservatory of Music “Cimarosa” in Avellino with Maestro Silvano Fusco, receiving top marks with honours.
Since she was very young, she has attended masterclasses held by Maestros Ilarion Ionescu, Gianluca Giganti, Luca Signorini, Massimo Polidori, Andrea Noferini, Alexandra Gutu, Giovanni Gnocchi, and others. She has been attending annual courses with Maestro Ulrike Hofmann since 2016.
In 2017, having won first prize at the international competition “Sant'Alfonso dei Liguori”, she won a masterclass at the Tibor Varga Academy of Music in Sion with Maestro Marcio Carneiro. In the 2017-2018 academic year, she was a student of G. Gnocchi at the Accademia di Fiesole, where in October 2018, she won the audition for first cello of Italian National Young Orchestra, while in 2019, she entered after auditioning for the Cherubini Orchestra founded by Riccardo Muti. In 2021, she was accepted in the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester.
Until 2023 she was a student at the Conservatory of the Italian Switzerland under the guidance of M. Asier Polo, where she obtained a Master’s degree in Music Performance in 2022, and a post-graduate certificate of Advanced Studies (CAS) in Orchestral Studies in 2023. Also in June 2023, she won the audition as second at the Pomeriggio Musicali orchestra in Milan. She also won auditions at the Teatro del Maggio Fiorentino in Florence, and the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa.
In December 2024, she also passed an audition at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan. In April 2025, she was ranked in the audition for a permanent position for tutti cello in the Teatro San Carlo in Naples.
She has toured China, Poland, Germany and various European countries in chamber and orchestral ensembles and she currently collaborates with various orchestras, such as the Toscanini, the Solisti Aquilani, the Trio Faldan, the Pomeriggi Musicali in Milan, the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa, and the Teatro del Maggio Fiorentino.
