This chronology outlines selected works, performances, collaborations, broadcasts, studies and research activity across my career as a composer, sound designer and researcher.
The chronology is continuously updated as programmes, reviews, scores, recordings, broadcasts and institutional archival records are recovered, verified and incorporated into the archive.
1970s
c. 1972 — Early theatre work in Rome, including stage music for productions by independent theatre companies.
1974–1975 — Edipo, after Seneca, produced by A.T.A. Associazione Teatrale Attori and directed by Aurelio Pierucci at Teatro Valle, Rome. Music by Francesco Accolla.
1976 — Caligola, by Alfio Valdarnini, directed by Aldo Trionfo at Teatro Parioli, Rome. Music and live piano by Francesco Accolla.
1977 — Series of radio plays written and directed by Ida Bassignano, recorded in June 1977 and documented in the catalogue of the Tuscan Radio Archive. Music by Francesco Accolla.
!997 – La Bella Addormentata, song for voice and chamber ensemble. Music by Francesco Accolla, lyrics by Giordano Falzoni. Recorded by Maria Monty on the RCA Italiana album “Muraglie“.
1978 — Vaudeville d’Antan, by Gerardo Guccini, recipient of the Premio Paolo Bignami at Premio Riccione 1977, presented on Radiotre as part of Nove Autori Italiani from Teatro in Trastevere, Rome. Theatrical direction by Gilberto Visintin. Music by Francesco Accolla.
1978 — Permette questo ballo?, RAI radio production directed by Gilberto Visintin. Music by Francesco Accolla.
1978 — Giochi per l’orecchio, RAI radio programme. Music written and performed by Francesco Accolla.
c. late 1970s / 1980 — Ferrovia sopraelevata, by Dino Buzzati, produced as a RAI radio drama directed by Gilberto Visentin and recorded at the RAI studios in Turin. Music by Francesco Accolla.
1980s
1980 — Il mercante di Venezia, by William Shakespeare, directed by Memè Perlini at Teatro Eliseo, Rome. Music by Francesco Accolla. The production is preserved in the catalogue of the Istituto Centrale per i Beni Sonori ed Audiovisivi.
1981 — John Gabriel Borkman, by Henrik Ibsen, directed by Memè Perlini, translation by Claudio Magris at Teatro Argentina, Rome. Music by Francesco Accolla. Preserved in the catalogue of the Istituto Centrale per i Beni Sonori ed Audiovisivi.
1981 — Mozart, nine-part RAI radio drama written and directed by Tonino Accolla. Music selection, supervision, and piano performance of Mozart’s music by Francesco Accolla.
1982 — Il fascino dell’insolito – Castigo senza delitto, RAI television series episode. Music by Francesco Accolla.
1983 — Cavalleria Rusticana, RAI television adaptation of Giovanni Verga, directed by Memè Perlini and starring Massimo Ranieri and Lina Sastri. Music by Francesco Accolla.
c. 1983 — Rossini, RAI radio drama written and directed by Tonino Accolla. Musical selection and supervision by Francesco Accolla.
1984 — Traversées, film directed by Mahmoud Ben Mahmoud. Music by Francesco Accolla.
1984/1985 — Classical Age, CAM library/promotional LP, catalogue CML 192. Includes three tracks by Francesco Accolla: Dolce Intermezzo, Corridoio and Romanza d’Epoca.
1990s
c. 1990 — Frazioni, electroacoustic work documented in the New York Public Library, Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound, within the Jacob Druckman collection of noncommercial sound recordings.
1991 — Foglio d’album, for violin, clarinet and piano. Score preserved in the New York Public Library, Music Division, Jacob Druckman Papers.
1991 — Too Blues, for woodwind quintet. Score preserved in the New York Public Library, Music Division, Jacob Druckman Papers.
mid-1990s — Psalm 33, for mixed choir and percussion. Honourable Mention, International Choral Composition Competition, Roger Wagner Center for Choral Studies, Los Angeles.
1998 — Chemical Angels, for tape and piano, performed by Gabriela Lena Frank at the Midwest Composers Symposium, Center for New Music, University of Iowa.
2000s–2010s
Entries for this period will be added as the archive is developed.
2020s
2026 — PhonoSphere – The Tale of Water, interdisciplinary performance work for piano, spoken text, live electronics, field recordings and visuals. Premiered at Teatro Foce, Lugano, with pianist Isabella Libra.
2026 — Development of research into Sonic Gravity as part of MSc Sound Design at Edinburgh Napier University.
