Scuderi, Cristina, Dr.

Dr. Cristina Scuderi has obtained the Habilitation at the Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, where she is active as a researcher and lecturer. She is also lecturer at the University of Vienna and professor of Music History at the Conservatory of Triest. After her PhD and diplomas in organ, harpsichord and electronic music, she worked at the Universities of Fribourg (CH) and Stuttgart (DE), collaborating with the Universities of Udine, Florence, Venice, Padua, the Conservatories of Padua, Bari, Venice, Adria, and the Teatro La Fenice in Venice.

In her work, she has been supported and received research grants and scholarships from a wide variety of organisations including the Ministero degli Affari Esteri (on the national swiss project Musik aus Schweizer Klöstern), DAAD (Re-invitation grant, University of Bayreuth), SAIA, Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Società Filarmonica di Trento, Associazione per lo Studio dell’Ebraismo nelle Venezie, Accademia Bizantina, Centro Studi Avellaniti, the Bogliasco Foundation and Cini Foundation. She has also been active as a freelance journalist.

In 2006 she qualified as “Expert in the management and enhancement of musical heritage” (Regione Veneto – Fondazione Levi). Furthermore she’s obtained the Willems music education diploma and has participated in several masterclasses with international musicians, playing in various concerts, as a soloist and with different ensembles.

Dr. Scuderi has also published music editions mainly by classical composers.

Since 2005, she has been co-managing the International Composition Competition Città di Udine” and the “Contemporanea” New Music Festival. The events enjoy the support of the President of the Italian Republic and have received the representation prizes of the Italian Senate and the Camera dei Deputati. They are also patronaged by the European Commission - RNI, Unesco and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs among others.

Her last monograph, focused on reconstructing the production system of opera in Eastern Adriatic theatres in the period between 1861 and 1918 (with special consideration given to the network between impresari, theatre directors, singers, musicians and editors) is in press by LIM (Italian version) and forthcoming by Böhlau (English version).