PhD in CULTURAL HERITAGE, EDUCATION AND TERRITORY

email: gialdroni@lettere.uniroma2.it
phone: 009005

Teresa M. Gialdroni is Associate professor of History of music at the University of Roma "Tor Vergata". Since 2012 she teaches at the three-year undergraduate course in "Cultural heritage (Archeology, Art, Music, Performing Arts)", at the two-years graduate course in "Music and performing arts" and, since 2020, at the graduate course in “Italian language and culture for foreigners: Welcome and internationalization”. She holds the National Scientific Qualification for full professorship (sector 10/C1 Teatro, Musica, Cinema e Media audiovisivi, Settore Scientifico Disciplinare L-ART/07 - Musicologia e Storia della musica). Qualification valid from 6.11.2018 up to 6.11.2024
Previous teaching activity
Before teaching at University of Rome “Tor Vergata” she taught Music Education in secondary schools (1982-1985) and from 1985 to 2012 History of music at various state conservatories (Pesaro, Rome, Foggia, L’Aquila, Frosinone).
Education
She has a degree in Italian Literature (1979) and a degree in piano (1982).
Research fields
Her research is mainly oriented towards Italian vocal music between the 17th and 18th centuries. Within this area she has extensively researched the history of chamber cantata and opera in the early Eighteenth century, particularly in Naples and Rome. She also worked on the history of musical theater between the Eighteenth and early Nineteenth centuries. Her works have been published, among others, on the following peer-reviewed journals: «Early Music», «Acta musicologica», «Studi musicali», «Rivista Italiana di Musicologia», «Le fonti musicali italiane», la «Revista de Musicología», and on «Nuova Rivista Musicale Italiana» and in the series «Analecta musicologica».
Institutional responsibilities at Rome “Tor Vergata”
From 2015 to 2018 she was coordinator of the two years graduate course in “Music and Performing Arts”. Since 2013 she has been coordinator of the “Centro studi sulla cantata italiana” at the Department of History, Humanities and Society. She has been responsible for the “Master Universitario di I livello” in remote teaching “Le culture musicali del Novecento” (2012 to 2017) and she also taught in the online program Indicizzazione di documenti cartacei, multimediali ed elettronici in ambiente digitale.
Since 2017 she is faculty member in the PhD program in “Cultural Heritage, Education and Territory”, and previously (from 2013 to 2017), of the PhD program in “Cultural Heritage and Territory”.
Others institutional responsibilities
She is currently the vice president of the Italian Musicological Society of and chair of the conference committee.
Direction and participation to scientific committees and projects
Since 2018 she is editor of the peer-reviewed Journal “Studi musicali” (Accademia Nazionale di S. Cecilia). She is director of “Clori. Archivio della cantata italiana” (www.cantataitaliana.it), a project sponsored by the Italian Musicological Society (SIdM) in cooperation with the RISM and the Istituto Italiano per la Storia della Musica (IISM). This project concerns the study of the Italian chamber cantata from the 17th to the early 19th Century. Clori realized the first web-based index and catalogue of all italian cantata sources (available at the address www.cantataitaliana.it).
She is in the board of the Istituto Italiano per la Storia della Musica, in the board of SEdM, Società Editrice di Musicologia, in the board of the Opera omnia of Leonardo Vinci and of Giacomo Carissimi (Istituto Italiano per la Storia della Musica). She takes part in the committee of Fondazione Arcadia of Milan and of Academia Montis Regalis.
She took part to the international study group Lexikographie, Gender und Musikgeschichtsschreibung (Hamburg, 26-29 May 2016).
She contributed to the Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, the Dizionario degli Autori (Bompiani), to the new edition of the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians and of Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart. She collaborated also with RAI, with the “Festival di musica da camera di Città di Castello”, the “Festival di musica antica di Urbino”, the “Sagra malatestiana di Rimini” and with the “Centro di musica antica Pietà dei Turchini”..
Teachings and research in other universities
She has held seminars at several Italian universities and has held seminar, lectures, and participated in conferences in Spain, Germany, Sweden, Switzerland, United States, Russian Federation, England, Czech Republic. Among others, she was Guest Professor at Uppsala University (2012), Northwestern University (Evanston, 2008), Georgetown University-Department of Performing Arts (Washington, DC, 2017) and Catholic University of America (Washington, DC, 2017); she was visiting Professor at the Institut für Musikwissenschaft (University of Jena-Weimar, 2017).
Awards
In 2003 her article New Light on Petrucci's Activity 1520-1538: A Unknown Print of the ‘Motteti del Fiore’ («Early Music», November 2001), received the "Richard S. Hill Award" that the Music Library Association awards annually to the best article on music librarianship or article of a music-bibliographic nature.
Conferences
She organized, and has been member of the scientific committee of several international conferences.