Alessia Zangrando

Teaching tutor

Department of Cultural Heritage

Curriculum vitae

2026–Present: Academic Tutor for the PhD program in Cultural and Environmental Heritage and student at the Scuola di Specializzazione Interateneo in Beni Musicali, University of Bologna.

Research Interests: music archaeology and iconography, the history of music in Gorizia and the Balkan Peninsula, and the cultural heritage of the Fondazione Palazzo Coronini Cronberg.

In 2025, she was awarded a PhD with honors in Cultural and Environmental Heritage from the Department of Cultural Heritage at the University of Bologna (37th PON cycle). Under the supervision of Prof. Donatella Restani, her research project aimed to catalogue and analyse the musical evidence found in the accounts of travelers who crossed the Balkan Peninsula between the 15th and 18th centuries.

In 2025, she served as research fellow at the University of Udine’s Department of Humanities and Cultural Heritage, under the supervision of Prof. Donata Levi (Museology). Her research project focused on the study and promotion of the photographic heritage held by the Coronini Cronberg Foundation of Gorizia.

Education

2019: Bachelor's degree in Opera singing (Conservatory of Udine)

2018: Master's degree in Archaeology and Cultures of the Ancient World (University of Bologna)

2014: Bachelor's degree in Cultural Heritage (University of Udine)

Teaching Activities

Workshop: Musical Experiences in Travel Literature (Academic Year 2025/2026). For the Undergraduate degree in Cultural Heritage (L-1) and the Master’s degree in Library and Archive Science (LM-5), University of Bologna. Supervising Professor: Donatella Restani.
Workshop: Musical Experiences in Travel Accounts (Academic Years 2024/2025; 2023/2024; 2022/2023). For the Undergraduate degree in Cultural Heritage (L-1) and the Master’s degree in Library and Archive Science (LM-5), University of Bologna. Supervising Professor: Donatella Restani.
Co-supervisor for the Master’s thesis: "Hindustani Music in Travel Diaries: Thomas Roe and Edward Terry in 17th-Century India" by Virginia Romano. Master’s degree in Library and Archive Science, University of Bologna, as part of the course Musical Heritage of the Ancient World; Supervisor: Prof. Donatella Restani (A.Y. 2022/2023).
Teaching Assistant/Collaborator for the Musical Archaeology Workshop (A.Y. 2021/2022). For the Master’s degree in Archaeological, Artistic, and Landscape Heritage (LM-2 and LM-89), University of Bologna. Supervising Professor: Donatella Restani

Conferences, seminars and workshops

2025

Visualising Early Modern Ottoman Music: Western Perspectives from Travelogues and Costume Books, RT ‘Tapestries’ of musical images, concepts, and data in the Mediterranean – and beyond, at the IMS Intercongressional Symposium Global Mediterranean. Postcolonial music histories (16th-20th centuries) (Valencia, 10 July 2025).
Dallo studio alla valorizzazione delle tracce sonore del passato: dialogo con il Museo archeologico nazionale di Aquileia, with Elena Braidotti; Convegno internazionale di studi Musical Ecosystems of Ancient Europe. Peoples, borders, heritage (Ravenna, 13 June 2025).
Member of the RT Una Scuola per il patrimonio musicale. Presentazione della Scuola di Specializzazione Interateneo in Beni musicali, Dipartimento di Beni Culturali di Ravenna (Ravenna, 31 January 2025).

2024

L’enigmatico legame fra i dipinti di Antonio Paroli e il viaggio di Ernico Wanton, study days Le immagini della musica. Progetti e prospettive di ricerca fra iconografia musicale e digital heritage (Ravenna, 3 e 4 ottobre 2024).
Singing stones: musical scenes on the Roman gems of Aquileia, with Elena Braidotti and Annalisa De Franzoni at the 15th MOISA Internatinal Conference, Theatres in the Ancient Mediterranean World: Architectural Spaces and Venues for Musical Performance (Aquileia, Museo archeologico nazionale, 19-21 June 2024).
Musica dai Balcani occidentali nella letteratura odeporica (secoli XV-XVIII), at the XXVIII incontro dei dottorati di ricerca in discipline musicali organised by “Il Saggiatore musicale” (Bologna, 31 maggio 2024).
Gestione, tutela e valorizzazione dei beni musicali della Fondazione Palazzo Coronini Cronberg di Gorizia, with Angela Romagnoli and Cristina Bragaglia, at the Alumni Levi Live online meeting, organised by Fondazione Ugo e Olga Levi di Venezia (24 May 2024).
Le collezioni musicali della famiglia Coronini Cronberg, conference organised by Fondazione Palazzo Coronini Cronberg di Gorizia in collaboration with Archivio di Stato di Gorizia (Gorizia, 8 May 2024).
Un viaggio nel mondo sonoro di Giuseppe Galassi, at the conference Giuseppe Galassi riscoperto: una vita dedicata alla critica e alla storia dell’arte, Università di Bologna, Campus di Ravenna and Istituzione Biblioteca Classense (Ravenna, 16 February 2024).
In viaggio tra guzlari e ursari: la voce dei Balcani del Seicento, at the AlumniLevi Annual Conference, Corpo, Voce, Suono, Fondazione Ugo e Olga Levi (Venezia, 26-27 January 2024).

2023

Visual Representation and Reception of the Ancient Roman Music in the Collection of the Palazzo Coronini Cronberg Foundation, at the 19th symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Iconography of the Performing Arts, Images of Music in Rome: Past and Present (Roma, 18-20 May 2023).
Eventi sonori dai Balcani occidentali (XV-XVIII secolo), at the conference Echos. Sound ecosystems in Travelogues (Padova, 25-26 May 2023).
The Balkan soundscape in 17th-century travelogues: the embassies of Walter Leslie and Kara Mehmet Pasha, at the 8th International Conference of the IMS Regional Association for the Study of Music of the Balkans, Musical Cultures and Diasporas in the Balkans (Thessaloniki, 31 August-3 September 2023).
La produzione musicale a Gorizia tra Sette e Ottocento: una riflessione attraverso la documentazione d’archivio, at the XXX Annual Conference of the Società Italiana di Musicologia (Catania, 27-29 October 2023).
I resoconti di viaggio come fonti per lo studio degli ecosistemi sonori dall’antichità all’età moderna, with Donatella Restani, at the Seminario intercurricolare in Storia del Cinema, Media Audiovisivi e Musica of the Università di Udine, Il viaggio come metafora artistica e origine di processi creativi (Udine, 27-30 November 2023).
Through European Lenses: Balkan Music in Travelogues, at the International Symposium The Blasphemous in Music and Sound organised by the Zagreb University and Music Academy (Zagreb, 30 November-1° December 2023).

2022

Strumenti musicali e oggetti sonori nelle collezioni archeologiche del Friuli-Venezia Giulia: primi risultati del censimento e analisi dei contesti espositivi, at the conference Patrimonio musicale dei popoli nel mondo antico: definizioni, stato della ricerca, prospettive (Padova-Ravenna, 21-23 March 2022).
Musical Presence in the Cults of Magna Mater and Attis: Archaeological and Epigraphic Evidence from Trieste and Aquileia, XIIIe Colloque International MOISA, The Sounds of the Beyond. The Mysteries of Ancient Greek and Roman Music (Strasbourg, 27-29 June 2022).
Understanding the cultural heritage of the Ancient Mediterranean world through the material musical evidence: the TeMA project, RT of the MOISA Society, Music across Borders in the Ancient Mediterranean World, at the 21st Quinquennial Congress of the International Musicological Society, Music across Borders (Athens, 21-27 August 2022).
Da Vienna a Costantinopoli: testimonianze sonore dai Balcani del XVII secolo, at the international conference Turismo musicale: storia, geografia e formazione, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Cremona, 26-29 September 2022).
Sonorità balcaniche nei resoconti di due viaggiatori francesi del Seicento, at the XXVI Colloquio organised by “Il Saggiatore Musicale” (Imola-Bologna, 4-6 November 2022).
Balkan Music in Seventeenth-Century Travelogues: The Voyages of “Sieur” Poullet and “Monsieur” Quiclet, at the 13. Međunarodni simpozij Muzika u društvu / 13th International Symposium Music in Society, [http://www.muzikolosko-drustvo.ba/eng/] (Sarajevo, 7-10 December 2022).

2021

Un percorso attraverso i beni musicali della Fondazione Coronini Cronberg di Gorizia, at the XXV Colloquio di musicologia organised by “Il Saggiatore musicale” (Ravenna, 12-14 November 2021).

2019

Per aspera ad astra: Unusual Division Tables in P. Rain Unterricht kopt. 326, at the RT Arithmetical Texts in the Graeco-Roman World (Udine, 25-26 February 2019).

Fellowships

Residential Fellowship for the "Corpo, Voce, Suono" (Body, Voice, Sound) seminars, Ugo and Olga Levi Foundation (Venice, July 10–15, 2023).
PhD Scholarship (37th cycle) in Cultural and Environmental Heritage, University of Bologna (January 1, 2022 – December 31, 2024).
Specialization Scholarship for the Scuola di Specializzazione in Beni Musicali, University of Bologna (A.Y. 2020/2021).
Research Travel Grant (11th MOISA Meeting, University of Reading, July 20–22, 2018) for research activities aimed at publishing an article based on the candidate's Master’s thesis; funded by the Department of Cultural Heritage, University of Bologna.

Public engagement (Third mission)