PERFORMING ARTS MANAGER
Top-level roles in the public and private sector round out Petrocelli’s wide knowledge and senior leadership expertise in the area of performing arts management, music management, artist management and arts administration, allowing collaboration with global leading companies, international music institutions and cultural foundations, major opera houses and performing arts centers, academies of excellence and national conservatories, multicultural festivals and world-renowned artists, ensembles and orchestras.
Stauffer Center for Strings
Director General
Petrocelli is the founding Director General of the Stauffer Center for Strings in Cremona, the first international center dedicated entirely to string instruments, home to Stauffer Academy.
As Director General of the Stauffer Academy, he brought together a faculty of more than forty leading international artists, including Salvatore Accardo, Avi Avital, Matthew Barley, Lisa Batiashvili, Sol Gabetta, Bruno Giuranna, Daniel Hope, Aleksey Igudesman, Steven Isserlis, Misha Maisky, Antonio Meneses, Viktoria Mullova, Franco Petracchi, Gabriel Prokofiev, Quartetto di Cremona, Julian Rachlin, Caroline Shaw, Antoine Tamestit, Alisa Weilerstein.
Petrocelli designed and launched the Concertmaster Artist Diploma, the first advanced training program in the world dedicated entirely to concertmasters, bringing together as faculty members the concertmasters of the most prestigious European orchestras, like Berliner Philharmoniker, Wiener Philharmoniker, La Scala Theatre Orchestra, Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, London Symphony Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.
He established the Stauffer Labs, new departments for innovation and creativity, and initiated an entire new series of concerts and talks broadcasted in live streaming from Cremona. Under his directorship, the Stauffer Center for Strings partnered with some of the most respected music and academic institutions around the world, like Juilliard School, Yale School of Music,Royal College of Music,Sorbonne University, Saïd Business School of the University of Oxford, and started artist residencies programs with music ensembles like the Ensemble intercontemporain, the Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra and the European Union Youth Orchestra
The Stauffer Center became the first All-Steinway & Sons School in Italy and the first music institution worldwide to have a digital library provided by Universal Edition.
On the occasion of the opening of the Stauffer Center, Petrocelli curated the release of the album “Stauffer Center Collection“, an unpublished collection of Deutsche Grammophon recordings from Stauffer faculty and alumni.
2. Paolo Petrocelli with the class of string quartet and professors of Quaretto di Cremona
4. Paolo Petrocelli with Bruno Giuranna, Salvatore Accardo, Antonio Meneses, Franco Petracchi
5. Paolo Petrocelli with Steven Isserlis, Salvatore Accardo, Daniel Hope, Julian Rachlin, Sarah McElravy
7. Paolo Petrocelli with Caroline Shaw
8. Paolo Petrocelli with Roby Lakatos and Aleksey Igudesman
10. Paolo Petrocelli with Sarah McElravy
11. Paolo Petrocelli with Lisa Batiashvili
13. Paolo Petrocelli with Gabriela Montero
14. Paolo Petrocelli with Julian Rachlin
16. Paolo Petrocelli with Avi Avital
17. Paolo Petrocelli with Laura Marzadori
Rome Opera House
Former Member of the Board of Directors
Assistant to the Superintendent
In 2014, at the age of 30, Petrocelli has been nominated a Member of the Board of Directors of the Rome Opera House (Teatro dell’Opera di Roma).
From 2015 to 2021, he served as Assistant to the Superintendent of the Opera House, Carlo Fuortes.
Petrocelli has been at the center of a major international fundraising operation that lead Malaysian billionaire Francis Yeoh making an unprecedented donation to the Rome Opera House.
Under Petrocelli’s leadership, the Rome Opera House performed in 2018 for the first time in Oman, presenting a production of Pagliacci by Franco Zeffirelli at the Royal Opera House Muscat and in Kuwait, with a concert performance of the Youth Orchestra of Teatro dell’Opera di Roma at the Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmad Cultural Centre.
2. Petrocelli with Carlo Fuortes, the Artistic Directors of Rome Opera House and Francis Yeoh
3. Petrocelli with Francis Yeoh and Carlo Fuortes in front of Rome Opera House
5. Petrocelli with the Superintendent of Rome Opera House and the Director General of the Royal Opera House Muscat
6. Petrocelli with Nobel Peace Laureates Muhammad Yunus, Tawakkul Karman and Óscar Arias Sánchez at the Rome Opera
Royal Opera House Muscat
Advisor for International Development and Special Projects
Petrocelli served from 2018 to 2020 as Advisor for International Development and Special Projects at Royal Opera House Muscat in Oman, one of the leading arts and culture organization in the Gulf Region and the Arab world for the development of opera and performing arts in the Region and beyond.
2. Petrocelli in front of the Royal Opera House Muscat, Oman
2. In conversation with His Highness Sayyid Kamil bin Fahad Al Said and ROHM Director General Umberto Fanni, at the end of the official press conference of presentation of the 2017-18 season of Royal Opera House Muscat, Oman
Franco Zeffirelli Foundation
Director of Institutional Affairs & International Relations
Petrocelli served as Director of Institutional Affairs & International Relations for the Franco Zeffirelli Foundation, organization created to promote the legacy of the iconic Italian director.
3. Paolo Petrocelli with Maestro Franco Zeffirelli at his private home in Rome
IMG Artists
Associate Director
At the age of 27, Petrocelli joined IMG Artists, the global leader for performing arts, festival and events management.
As Associate Director, he has been responsible for the opening of the IMG branch office in Rome and managing the artistic career of several artists, including pianist Alexander Romanovsky and violinist Anna Tifu.
2. Paolo Petrocelli with Kristine Opolais in Muscat
3. Paolo Petrocelli with Joshua Bell and Larisa Martinez in New York
4. Paolo Petrocelli with Herbie Hancock in Melbourne
5. Paolo Petrocelli at Carnegie Hall in New York
ClassicheFORME Festival
Director GeneralSince 2022, Paolo Petrocelli serves as Director General of ClassicheFORME, the International Chamber Music Festival founded by pianist Beatrice Rana, in the heart of Salento (Apulia, Italy). Artistic Director, Beatrice Rana | Honorary President, Antonio Pappano.
