Ilaria Contesotto

Ilaria Contesotto, pianist and conductor, got her PhD in Bologna, where she discussed a thesis entitled -Control and censorship in seventeenth-century Venice opera. She also became an Environmental Scientist (Ca' Foscari University), conducting studies on the Tomatis effect, the Rohmert method and the relationships between listening and environmental management. She's a qualified music teacher for secondary school (VIU University of Valencia), and she has been teaching in several secondary institutes for over ten years. In 2019 she won a scholarship named after Luigi and Eleonora Ronga, provided by the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. In 2023 she won the musicology International Prize "Padre Albino Varotti", and, in 2024 she won a scholarship for the 'International Semantic Web Research Summer School 2024 (ISWS2024).

Her research concerns religious and political censorship in Venetian opera of the late seventeenth century and the influence of academies and religious sects within the librettistica of the time. She's also interested in historical medicine for musicians and she's into semantic web for humanities.