I am currently a PhD candidate in Aesthetics, enrolled in the 41st cycle of the doctoral program “Philosophy, Science, Cognition and Semiotics” (PSCS) at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Bologna. I am also a member of the I-PhD College promoted by the Collegio Superiore of the University of Bologna.
Alongside my academic study and research, I pursue a musical and performing career, working as a violinist in several chamber ensembles, with which I have the opportunity to perform in national and international contexts.
Education
- 2025 – ongoing: PhD in Philosophy, Science, Cognition and Semiotics.
Provisional project title: Dialettica della ripetizione. Immagini sonore della de-soggettivazione in una prospettiva teorico-critica.
- 2024 – ongoing: Master’s degree in Music and Performing Arts, University of Bologna.
- March 2024: First-level Academic Diploma in Violin, 110/110, Conservatory of Bologna “G. B. Martini”.
Thesis title: Il Concerto per Violino op. 61 di L. van Beethoven. Un’interpretazione adorniana.
- March 2023: Master’s degree in Philosophical Sciences, 110/110 cum laude, University of Bologna.
Thesis title (Contemporary Aesthetics): Adorno e Beethoven. Il periodo eroico come metafisica della tragedia.
Supervisor: Giovanni Matteucci.
- October 2019: Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy, 110/110 cum laude, University of Bologna.
Thesis title (Poetics and Rhetoric): Filosofia del Comporre: Adorno interprete di Mahler e Schönberg.
Supervisor: Stefano Marino.
- 2016: Classical High School Diploma, 100/100 cum laude, “G. Perrotta” Classical Lyceum, Termoli, Italy.
Publications
- Casolino, L. (2026), Adorno e Beethoven. La non compiuta Filosofia della musica nella curvatura dell’estetico, in a special issue edited by G. Matteucci and G. Zerbinati, Studi di estetica, forthcoming.
Conference Participation
- Rome, 19 September 2025: Speaker at the international conference of the Walter Benjamin International Society – Southern Benjamin. Mourning, Play, Revolution.
Paper title: Porous sounds, petrified landscapes: aesthetic forms of repetition in Benjamin’s and Adorno’s philosophies of music.
- Zagreb, Croatia, 17 May 2025: Speaker at the 16th International Musicological Conference of the Croatian Musicological Society – From Private to Public: The Institutionalization of Bourgeois Music Culture in the Long 19th Century.
Paper title: “To mean freedom by continued unfreedom”: Public and private dimensions in Adorno’s thought on musical repetition in Beethoven’s work.
- Siena, 4–6 December 2024: Member of the organizing committee, Chigiana Journal International Conference 2024 – Performing Classics Today: The Role of the Performer in the Actualization of Music.
- Siena, 22–24 November 2023: Member of the organizing committee, Chigiana Journal International Conference 2023 – CHIGIANA 100 (1923–2023). Education, research and music production from the twentieth century to the future.
Awards and Scholarships
- 2025: Admission to the Collegio Superiore I-PhD College, University of Bologna.
- 2025: PhD Scholarship in Philosophy, Science, Cognition and Semiotics, University of Bologna.
- 2025: Erasmus+ Scholarship for the Academic Year 2025/2026 – Universität Wien (declined).
