Ilaria Contesotto

Pianist and choir conductor, she earned her PhD at the University of Bologna (36th cycle), where she defended a dissertation titled Control and Censorship in Venetian Opera of the Late Seventeenth Century. She holds a degree in Environmental Sciences, where she conducted research on the relationship between listening and environmental planning. Certified to teach by the VIU University of Valencia, she taught in secondary schools for over ten years.

In 2019, she was awarded the Ronga Research Grant from the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, and in 2023 she was unanimously selected as the winner of the International Musicology Prize “Padre Albino Varotti.” In 2024, she participated as a fellow in ISWS2024; in August of the same year, she received a research award from the German Center for Venetian Studies. In 2025, on behalf of the Levi Foundation, she organizes the roundtable discussion for the Giovanni Morelli Festival.

Her research interests include Venetian theatre legislation between the 17th and 18th centuries, historical soundscapes, occupational medicine for singers in the 17th and 18th centuries, and the use of semantic web technologies in the humanities.