Alessandra Montali

Alessandra Montali, PhD

Musicology Professor & Research Coordinator • Consultant to the Mantinea Institute

Alessandra Montali is Professor of Music History at the Giacomo Puccini Conservatory in La Spezia, Italy. She has also held positions as an Associate Professor at Florida Atlantic University in the United States and as a Visiting Professor at RK University in India in 2024.

Her recent academic activity has focused on the development and coordination of Alta Formazione Artistica, Musicale e Coreutica (AFAM) doctoral programmes in Italy. She is a member of the Doctoral Board in History, Criticism, and Conservation of Cultural Heritage at the University of Padua and a member of Italy’s National Doctoral Board in Artistic Research on Musical Heritage (DIN), where she also serves as the coordinator of the Immersive Technologies Applied to Music Curriculum (TIM).

Professor Montali’s research interests and publications range from music history and systematic musicology to new technologies applied to musical theatre, with a particular focus on 20th-century music.

She has delivered lectures at international conferences in the USA, Kenya, Italy, Poland, and France. Currently, she coordinates several international research projects: some focus on the interaction between art, VR technology, and cultural heritage (Resonances of Stones); others explore the application of new technologies to opera performance (a Prototype for Virtual Opera) and to teaching music history (Opera VR).

Alessandra Montali also made an instrumental contribution to the development of the Music Theatre and New Technologies (MTNT) project funded by the Italian PNRR, with over 5 million euros. Following her research interests, Alessandra Montali participates in European projects such as the Horizon Europe Communities and Artistic Participation in Hybrid Environments (CAPHE) and the Erasmus+ KA2 Project In Media Stat Virtus.

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