Composers’ Forum Presented by Liszt Academy

Claudia Vincis (b. 1973) studied organ and organ composition at the Conservatories of Cagliari and Cremona, and musicology at the Universities of Pavia and Vienna. She continued her studies at the Universities of Basel and Bern, earning her PhD in 2005 with a genetic, analytical, and aesthetic study on Igor Stravinsky’s early instrumental works from the 1920s. The following year she held a postdoctoral research fellowship in musicology with a project on the Swiss theorist Ernst Kurth (1886–1946), jointly conducted by the Universities of Bern, Nice, and Pavia-Cremona, and supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation.

Between 2002 and 2007 she worked as research associate and adjunct lecturer at the Universities of Basel, Bern, and Fribourg. From 2007 to 2017 she served as Director of the Luigi Nono Archive Foundation in Venice (FALN), where she developed extensive experience in management, archival, and library practices. In this role she promoted educational and research projects on Luigi Nono’s work, encouraging dialogue between compositional studies and performance practice, and coordinated major initiatives to preserve and valorize his artistic and intellectual legacy — including the design of the new digital database of the Luigi Nono Archive and the magnetic tape collection of Luciano Berio, in collaboration with the PSS and the Centro Studi Luciano Berio.

She is currently Chair of the Scientific Committee of the FALN and research associate at the Centro Studi Luciano Berio (CSLB), where she has contributed to the development of a web-based platform dedicated to Berio’s Gesti (in collaboration with the Musical Informatics Laboratory of the University of Milan, the Archivio Storico Ricordi, and the publishing houses Universal Edition, Vienna, and Edizioni Suvini Zerboni, Milan); to the annual Festival Luciano Berio Radicondoli; and to other initiatives promoting Berio’s work.

She has published in international academic venues on the postwar avant-garde and the twentieth-century reception of early music. She teaches historical musicology at the Conservatory of Cagliari and contributes program notes and reviews to musical journals and institutions in Italy and abroad.