Licia Sirch

Licia Sirch holds a degree in Philosophy from the University of Padua and a diploma in Paleography and Musical Philology from the University of Pavia-Cremona. She served as Librarian-Professor at the A. Pedrollo Conservatory in Vicenza and later held the same position at the G. Verdi Conservatory in Milan. She has also been an adjunct professor of “History of Music Printing and Publishing” at the Faculty of Musicology of the University of Pavia-Cremona. Over the years, she has conducted various musicological and bibliographic research projects, resulting in publications in specialized journals, collective volumes, and monographs. She has participated in national and international conferences, research groups, and projects organized by Italian institutes and universities, including: Fondazione Olga e Ugo Levi in Venice, Italian Society of Musicology, Philharmonic Society of Trento, C. Monteverdi Foundation of Cremona, Universities of Padua and Venice, Catholic University of Milan, Amici della Musica of Padua, Accademia Olimpica of Vicenza, B. Marcello Conservatory of Venice, G. Tartini Conservatory of Trieste, International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres (IAML), Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Italian Institute for the History of Music, German Center for Venetian Studies, Teatro alla Scala. She has collaborated with the University of Ann Arbor (USA) and the Kunitachi College of Music in Tokyo. She was responsible for the IAML-Italy branch of the international IRMA project (International Register of Musical Archives). Since 2003, she has been a member of the editorial board of the SIdM annual journal Fonti Musicali Italiane, and from 2004 to 2009, she served on the SIdM scientific committee as head of the Musicological Text Series. At the 21st Annual Early Brass Festival of the Historical Brass Society (Bennington College, Bennington VT, USA, July 8–10, 2005), she presented the paper “The Catalog of the Music of Amilcare Ponchielli (1834-1886) and Ponchielli’s Music for Band: A Story”; since then, she has collaborated with Prof. Henry Howey (Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, Texas). She was co-responsible for the “Clori” project, the archive of the Italian cantata of the Italian Society of Musicology, carried out in collaboration with the University of Rome Tor Vergata and the National Institute for the History of Music. The Clori database, now available online, was also presented at the roundtable Research Directions in the Italian Cantata during the Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society in Nashville, Tennessee (USA) in 2008, and was the subject of a course she taught at the University of Vienna in the 2011–12 academic year: “Cantata Research with CLORI (Online Database): Hands-On Training on Italian Cantatas for the Viennese Imperial Court around 1700.” Her research interests include the life and works of Amilcare Ponchielli, 19th-century Italian band and instrumental repertoire, music bibliography, vocal chamber music from the 17th–19th centuries, and the history of music publishing.