Faculty
Marco Cosci
University of PisaI am a musicologist interested in how music, sound, and media have shaped Italian and European cultural life in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. My research explores the aesthetics and practices of film music, musical modernism, and the intermedial relationships between cinema, theatre, and television. I am particularly interested in creative processes and practices within the audiovisual and media industries, examining how they illuminate broader dynamics of modernity and sound culture. I also collaborate with musical and broadcasting institutions, including Rai Radio 3 and the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino.
Michele Fadda
University of BolognaI am a film historian and former film critic. My work has focused on film criticism, the aesthetic of contemporary audiovisual and mainly on the cultural history of American cinema, with a particular interest in the dynamic of convergence between cinema and other media (film and literature, cinema and music). More recently, a part of my research has also dealt with the history of the circulation of foreign and Italian films in the Usa.
Cesare Fertonani
University of MilanI am a musicologist with a particular interest in the semantic, representative and narrative aspects of music from the 18th century to the present day. My work has focused mainly on instrumental music and Lied and the works of composers such as Vivaldi, Boccherini, Mozart, Schubert, Berlioz and Brahms, without neglecting 20th-century and contemporary composers such as Gian Francesco Malipiero and Ennio Morricone. I am also interested in the history of performance practice and musical interpretation and in discography.
