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BIOGRAPHY
Erica Bisesi's academic track is multidisciplinary: PhD in
mathematics and physics at Udine University in 2007, MSc in
astroparticle physics at Trieste University in 2002, MA Degree in
piano performance at Trieste Conservatory in 1996 and MMus in music
theory and analysis at the University of Calabria / GATM (in
progress). Born in Gorizia (Italy), she contributed to several
large-scale research projects (systematic musicology, music
interpretation and analysis, biological foundations of music,
astrobiology, theoretical astrophysics, experimental elementary
particle physics, history of physics, physics and music
education).
Her career as a musicologist began in 2007, first at the Department of
Speech, Music and Hearing at KTH, Stockholm, and then in several
projects on the psychology of music, psychoacoustics, expressive music
performance, music theory and analysis, and music information
retrieval. She directed or participated in several projects on the
systematic musicology at the Centre of Systematic Musicology at the University of Graz (2009-2016) and the Royal Institute of Technology
in Stockholm (2016-2017). She is currently researcher at the Institut
Pasteur in Paris (from 2017), where she is working in Intermuse, an
interdisciplinary project on the biology and anthropology of music
cognition and neurosciences.
She taught acoustics and psychoacoustics at the Udine Conservatory
from 2004 to 2007, psychoacoustics and music cognition at the University of Graz from 2014 to 2015, introduction to acoustics and
organology, music structure, expression and emotion at the Comenius
University in Bratislava in 2017, and is active as lecturer in
computational methods for music analysis at the University of Montreal
(from 2018).
Erica collaborated with universities and conservatoires in Armenia
(State Conservatory in Yerevan, National Academy of Sciences of the
Republic of Armenia, Komitas Museum-Institute in Yerevan), Austria
(KFU, KUG), Canada (Faculty of Music of the Montreal University,
OICRM, BRAMS), Finland (Finnish Centre of Excellence in
Interdisciplinary Music Research in Jyväskylä), France (Institut
Pasteur, SFAM, EHESS, CNRS and IRCAM in Paris, IRMA and GREAM in Strasbourg),
Italy (GATM, Fondazione Istituto Liszt in Bologna, Associazione
Seghizzi in Gorizia, Conservatoires of Udine, Trieste, Como and
Novara, Universities of
Udine, Padua and Bologna), Slovakia (Department of Musicology at the
Bratislava University), Sweden (KTH), Switzerland (CSI in Lugano). In
October 2009, Erica was awarded a Lise Meitner postdoctoral fellowship
for a two-year project entitled Measuring and Modeling Expression in
Piano Performance by FWF Austria. In December 2011, FWF funded her
five-year Stand-Alone project Expression, Emotion and Imagery in
Music Performance. She presented the results of her research in
conferences, lectures and lecture-recitals at leading institutes all
over the world (Austria, Belgium, Canada, Croatia, Cyprus, Finland,
France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, India, Israel, Italy,
Portugal, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK, and the United States).
Her career as a pianist began at the age of five. She began studying
Piano Performance with Maura Soro in Gorizia (Lower Degree, 1986), and
then continued with Roberto Repini in Trieste (MA Degree, 1996). Over
the following ten years, she mastered with the conductor Francesco
Mander in Latisana, the pianists Bruno Canino in Milan, Florence and
Switzerland, Aquiles Delle Vigne in Salzburg, Florence and Rome,
Vladimir Krpan in Zagreb, Anna Kravtchenko in Rovereto, and Andreas
Woyke in Graz. She regularly performs as a soloist and in chamber
music ensembles.
During the last years, she dedicated a special attention to combine
her research activity with performance practice. In 2017, she
participated as a concert pianist in a GATM project on music
performance/interpretation and music analysis (Conservatory of Novara,
2016-2017; International Conferences on Music Theory and Analysis in
Strasbourg and Rimini, 2017). Her current research lies mainly in the
area of computational and systematic musicology, music psychology,
music cognition, psychoacoustics, anthropology of music, music
information retrieval, music performance and interpretation, expression and emotion, music
theory and analysis, ethnomusicology, with a special attention to the
application of the results of her studies in music education. In her
research, she usually investigates the structure, historiography,
perception and expression of her concert repertoire.
Erica speaks fluently five languages. Fortunately for her life and her
work, she loves to move.
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Updated on September 1st, 2019. Please destroy previously dated materials.
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