Members – ITER Research Ensemble

**Martino Anibaldi**

Master’s student in Musicology, specializing in music philology and publishing. His studies focus on music from prisoner-of-war camps during the Second World War.

**Chiara Aquilani**

Conservatory PhD candidate in “Music, Design, Art, Territories,” she works in ethnomusicology, interspecies musical traditions and practices, acoustic ecology, and bioacoustics. She is also active as a music teacher.

**Margherita Bellini**
Preparatore vocale

BA in Musicology, she is currently pursuing an MA in Choral Conducting. She collaborates with associations and institutions as a conductor and vocal coach.

**Francesco Bombarda**

Active in organizing events and festivals, as well as in the communication sector for some major musical organizations.

**Chiara Broggini**

She works in music education from early childhood through adolescence. She studied opera and Baroque singing.

**Giovanni Cestino**
Artistic Director

(Ethno)musicologist and choir conductor. His research focuses on material, geographical, disciplinary, and performative borderlands.

**Stefano Colombo**

BA student in Musicology. He is interested in sound synthesis and music for audiovisual media.

**Emanuele Cristini**

Master’s student in Musicology and music teacher in secondary school. He works in audio production and music in the media, and is active as a composer and arranger.

**Rebecca Favale**

PhD candidate at the University of Milan and assistant at Norient (Bern). Her work focuses on ethnomusicology, popular music, and the relationship between music and society.

**Amina Fiallo**
Financial Manager

Master’s graduate in Musicology and trained archivist. She works as a freelance in the fields of heritage and digital humanities.

**Diego Franciosi**

Guitarist and Master’s graduate in Musicology. He is interested in twentieth-century and contemporary music.

**Lorenzo Giustozzi**

Conservatory PhD candidate in “Performing, Staging Arts, Music Creativity and Composition.” His work focuses on the study of preparatory materials and the compositional process.

**Lucia Gualandi**

MA in Musicology specializing in musical dramaturgy, she explores all aspects of theater.

**Chiara Lora**

Master’s student in Musicology, she has studied opera singing and is interested in twentieth-century music theatre and voice studies.

**Michela Marcucci**

Masters’s student in Musicology, she focuses on voice studies and the relationships between poetry and music.

**Anna Martini**
Executive Producer

Conservatory PhD candidate in “Artistic Research on Musical Heritage” and postgrad in Musical Heritage. She works on documentation and preservation projects.

**Matteo Rizzardi**

Pianist, organist, choir director, and vocal coach, he specializes in Renaissance and Baroque repertoire. A graduate in Computer Science, he is currently an entrepreneur.

**Riccardo Roveyaz**

Master’s student in Musicology, currently attending a BA in Choral Conducting. He works on music for audiovisual media and composes soundtracks for short films.

**Giuseppe Trovato**

Trained as a musicologist and director for musical theater, his areas of research include opera, musical dramaturgy, and theatrical staging.

Collaborators

Alessio Giuricin
Master’s student in Musicology, he is one of the most knowledgeable experts on the musical traditions of the Veneto-Giulian area, particularly those of Rovinj-Rovigno.

Federico Orsi
Student of Composition and Choral Conducting at the Milan Conservatory. He focuses on sixteenth-century polyphony and folk-based repertoire.

Giulia Maria Taccagni
Chorus artist at Teatro alla Scala in Milan. A self-taught ethnomusicologist and a “collector” of vocal music of oral tradition.

Former members

Niccolò Galliano (2022-23)
Gioele Onida (2022-23)
Giulio Gianì (2023-24)
Ester Melchiorre (2022-24)