Training Archives - Fondazione Giorgio Cini

Discover all 2026 events

JANUARY

Exhibitions

27 September 2025 — 2 March 2026

Venice, Palazzo Cini. The Gallery

Exhibition Casanova and Venice

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17 October 2025 — 2 March 2026

Venice, Island of San Giorgio Maggiore

Exhibition Casanova and Europe. Opera in Several Acts

EVENTs

19 — 23 January 2026

ARCHiVe ONLINE ACADEMY

Bringing Venice into Space

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27 — 30 January 2026

Umberto and Elisabetta Mauri School for Booksellers

FEBRUARY

Exhibitions

27 September 2025 — 2 March 2026

Venice, Palazzo Cini. The Gallery

Exhibition Casanova and Venice

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17 October 2025 — 2 March 2026

Venice, Island of San Giorgio Maggiore

Exhibition Casanova and Europe. Opera in Several Acts

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21 February —5 July 2026

Le Stanze della Fotografia

Exhibition Horst P. Horst. The Geometry of Grace

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21 February — 06 April 2026

Le Stanze della Fotografia

Exhibition Ahmet Ertuğ Beyond the vanishing point

EVENTs

2 February 2026

INSTITUTE FOR THE HISTORY OF THE VENETIAN STATE AND SOCIETY

Presentation of the volume Il Veneto. Un profilo per i beni culturali

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3 — 22 February 2026

Treviso, Teatro Comunale Mario Del Monaco

ITALIAN ANTONIO VIVALDI INSTITUTE

Accademia Vivaldi

Advanced courses on the interpretation of the music of Antonio Vivaldi L’Olimpiade – Conservatorio di Musica Agostino Stefani Castelfranco Veneto

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10 February 2026

Online on Zoom

ARCHiVe ONLINE ACADEMY

Semantic Attractors, Bias, and Distributed Creativity: Images and Authorship in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

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23 — 24 February 2026

INSTITUTE OF THEATRE AND OPERA

Seminar Singing in the fire with masks

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23 — 25 February 2026

Centro Digitale – ARCHiVe

ARCHiVe ONLINE ACADEMY

Beyond Cinema

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25 February 2026

INSTITUTE OF MUSIC

Study day and closing concert Hindsight and repositioning: composers and the challenges of the third age

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26 — 27 February 2026

INSTITUTE FOR THE HISTORY OF THE VENETIAN STATE AND SOCIETY

Conference Venezia e il suo Stato da mar. Guerra e pace nello Stato da mar

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27 February 2026

AMBASSADOR

Return of the Tapestry ‘Entry into Palestine of the Army of Vespasian’

MARCH

Exhibitions

27 September 2025 — 2 March 2026

Venice, Palazzo Cini. The Gallery

Exhibition Casanova and Venice

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17 October 2025 — 2 March 2026

Venice, Island of San Giorgio Maggiore

Exhibition Casanova and Europe. Opera in Several Acts

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21 February —5 July 2026

Le Stanze della Fotografia

Exhibition Horst P. Horst. The Geometry of Grace

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21 febbraio — 06 aprile 2026

Le Stanze della Fotografia

Exhibition Ahmet Ertuğ Beyond the vanishing point

EVENTs

4 March 2026

INTERCULTURAL INSTITUTE OF COMPARATIVE MUSIC STUDIES

Concert of music from the Shashmaqom art Ilyos Arabov Ensemble, Uzbekistan

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4 — 6 March 2026

CENTRE FOR COMPARATIVE STUDIES OF CIVILISATIONS AND

SPIRITUALITIES

Workshop di suiboku (水墨, Japanese painting technique with water and ink)

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7 March 2026

Auditorium “Lo Squero” Music on San Giorgio | Veneto Jazz

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11— 13 March 2026

INSTITUTE OF MUSIC

Doctoral seminar Twentieth Century Music Archives: Preservation and Valorisation of the Sources

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14 March 2026

Auditorium “Lo Squero” Music on San Giorgio | Asolo Musica

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16 — 20 March 2026

EARLY MUSIC SEMINARS EGIDA SARTORI AND LAURA ALVINI

Seminar and concert of advanced training in early music: Trionfi. Music, poetry and longevity between Guillaume de Machaut and Francesco Petrarca

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20 March 2026

AMBASSADOR

The unveiling of The Dream of Jacob by Valentin Lefèvre

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24 — 27 March 2026

INSTITUTE OF MUSIC

Workshop and concert Research-Led Performance 20th Century Italian Piano Music

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25 — 27 March 2026

ITALIAN ANTONIO VIVALDI INSTITUTE

Accademia Vivaldi. Advanced courses on the interpretation of the music of Antonio Vivaldi

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28 March 2026

Auditorium “Lo Squero” Music on San Giorgio | Asolo Musica

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31 marzo 2026

INTERCULTURAL INSTITUTE OF COMPARATIVE MUSIC STUDIES

Conference Sound archives amid memories, restitution and new cultural processes

APRIL

Exhibitions

21 February —5 July 2026

Le Stanze della Fotografia

Exhibition Horst P. Horst. The Geometry of Grace

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21 February — 06 April 2026

Le Stanze della Fotografia

Exhibition Ahmet Ertuğ Beyond the vanishing point

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17 April — 12 July 2026

Exhibition How to reach the Sky

Barbora Šlapetová e Lukáš Rittstein

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19 April — 22 November 2026

LE STANZE DEL VETRO

Exhibition 1948-1958 Murano Glass and the Venice Biennale

EVENTs

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1 — 10 April 2026

22th Edition Solti-Peretti Répétiteur Masterclass

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11 April 2026

Auditorium “Lo Squero” Music on San Giorgio | Asolo Musica

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14 — 18 April 2026

ITALIAN ANTONIO VIVALDI INSTITUTE

Accademia Vivaldi Advanced courses on the interpretation of the music of Antonio Vivaldi

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21 — 23 April 2026

CENTRE FOR COMPARATIVE STUDIES OF CIVILISATIONS AND

SPIRITUALITIES

Conference Academic Freedom and the Challenges of Humanism(s)

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25 April 2026

Auditorium “Lo Squero” Music on San Giorgio | Asolo Musica

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28 — 29 April 2026

INSTITUTE OF MUSIC, INSTITUTE OF THEATRE AND OPERA

Conference Opera in musica tra intertestualità e intermedialità. In ricordo di Michele Girardi

MAY

Exhibitions

21 February —5 July 2026

Le Stanze della Fotografia

Exhibition Horst P. Horst. The Geometry of Grace

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17 April — 12 July 2026

Exhibition How to reach the Sky

Barbora Šlapetová e Lukáš Rittstein

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19 April — 22 November 2026

LE STANZE DEL VETRO

Exhibition 1948-1958 Murano Glass and the Venice Biennale

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6 May — 27 September 2026

Exhibition David Salle

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6 May — 27 September 2026

Exhibition Georg Baselitz

EVENTs

2 May 2026

Auditorium “Lo Squero” Music on San Giorgio | Asolo Musica

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7 May 2026

Online on Zoom

INTERCULTURAL INSTITUTE OF COMPARATIVE MUSIC STUDIES

Workshop Eyes on Music

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14 — 15 May 2026

INSTITUTE OF THEATRE AND OPERA

Study conference Paolo Poli. Sixty and More Years of Theatrical Ingenuity

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15 May 2026

Online on Zoom

ARCHiVe ONLINE ACADEMY

Becoming Chimeric: Verso Identità Radicali Attraverso il Glitch

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16 May 2026

Auditorium “Lo Squero” Music on San Giorgio | Veneto Jazz

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19 — 22 May 2026

ITALIAN ANTONIO VIVALDI INSTITUTE

Accademia Vivaldi Advanced courses on the interpretation of the music of Antonio Vivaldi

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20 May 2026

INTERCULTURAL INSTITUTE OF COMPARATIVE MUSIC STUDIES

Kapila Venu. Pārvatīviraham

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20 May 2026

AMBASSADOR

Naṅṅyār, le attrici del teatro classico indiano

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23 May 2026

Auditorium “Lo Squero” Music on San Giorgio | Asolo Musica

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26 — 28 May 2026

INSTITUTE OF MUSIC

Conference and concert Dimensions of Current Compositional Practice (2) Composers in Dialog with Musicologists

JUNE

Exhibitions

21 February —5 July 2026

Le Stanze della Fotografia

Exhibition Horst P. Horst. The Geometry of Grace

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17 April — 12 July 2026

Exhibition How to reach the Sky

Barbora Šlapetová e Lukáš Rittstein

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19 April — 22 November 2026

LE STANZE DEL VETRO

Exhibition 1948-1958 Murano Glass and the Venice Biennale

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6 May — 27 September 2026

Exhibition David Salle

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6 May — 27 September 2026

Exhibition Georg Baselitz

EVENTs

13 June 2026

Auditorium “Lo Squero” Music on San Giorgio | Asolo Musica

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19 June 2026

Auditorium “Lo Squero”

INSTITUTE OF MUSIC

Concert for the 90th anniversary of the death of Ottorino Respighi

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27 June 2026

Auditorium “Lo Squero” Music on San Giorgio | Veneto Jazz

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30 June — 3 July 2026

ITALIAN ANTONIO VIVALDI INSTITUTE

Accademia Vivaldi Advanced courses on the interpretation of the music of Antonio Vivaldi

JULY

Exhibitions

21 February —5 July 2026

Le Stanze della Fotografia

Exhibition Horst P. Horst. The Geometry of Grace

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17 April — 12 July 2026

Exhibition How to reach the Sky

Barbora Šlapetová e Lukáš Rittstein

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19 April — 22 November 2026

LE STANZE DEL VETRO

Exhibition 1948-1958 Murano Glass and the Venice Biennale

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6 May — 27 September 2026

Exhibition David Salle

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6 May — 27 September 2026

Exhibition Georg Baselitz

EVENTs

3 — 4 July 2026

Inequalities in Longevity

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2 July 2026

Online on Zoom

INTERCULTURAL INSTITUTE OF COMPARATIVE MUSIC STUDIES

Workshop Eyes on Music

AUGUST

Exhibitions

19 April — 22 November 2026

LE STANZE DEL VETRO

Exhibition 1948-1958 Murano Glass and the Venice Biennale

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6 May — 27 September 2026

Exhibition David Salle

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6 May — 27 September 2026

Exhibition Georg Baselitz

SEPTEMBER

Exhibitions

19 April — 22 November 2026

LE STANZE DEL VETRO

Exhibition 1948-1958 Murano Glass and the Venice Biennale

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6 May — 27 September 2026

Exhibition David Salle

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6 May — 27 September 2026

Exhibition Georg Baselitz

EVENTs

AMBASSADOR

Homo Faber 2026: An Island of Light

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1 — 30 September 2026

Homo Faber 2026: An Island of Light

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11 September 2026

AMBASSADOR

My library is on fire

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11 — 20 September 2026

DIGITAL CENTRE – ARCHIVE

My library is on fire

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13 September 2026

Online on Zoom

INTERCULTURAL INSTITUTE OF COMPARATIVE MUSIC STUDIES

Workshop Eyes on Music

OCTOBER

Exhibition

19 April — 22 November 2026

LE STANZE DEL VETRO

Exhibition 1948-1958 Murano Glass and the Venice Biennale

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8 October 2026 — 21 March 2027

Londra, British Museum, Prints and Drawings galleries

Exhibition Italian Renaissance Woodcut 1400-1550

EVENTs

INSTITUTE OF ART HISTORY, GLASS STUDY CENTRE

International Study Conference Glass and Decorative Arts at the Venice Biennale. 1948–1958

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29 October 2026

INSTITUTE OF ART HISTORY

Study day Conversation on Longevity in Artistic Production

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29 — 30 October 2026

INSTITUTE OF MUSIC

Study day Metamorphoses of the Musical Work: Self-Recasting and Rewriting in the Twentieth Century

NOVEMBER

Exhibitions

19 April — 22 November 2026

LE STANZE DEL VETRO

Exhibition 1948-1958 Murano Glass and the Venice Biennale

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8 October 2026 — 21 March 2027

Londra, British Museum, Prints and Drawings galleries

Exhibition Italian Renaissance Woodcut 1400-1550

EVENTs

2 — 6 November 2026

EARLY MUSIC SEMINARS EGIDA SARTORI AND LAURA ALVINI

Seminar and concert of advanced training in early music The Aura of Willaert. Petrarchan Madrigals in ‘Musica Nova’, 1559

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7 November 2026

Auditorium “Lo Squero” Music on San Giorgio | Veneto Jazz

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9 November 2026

AMBASSADOR

Amid Music and Cinema: The Universe of Nino Rota

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10 — 12 November 2026

INTERCULTURAL INSTITUTE OF COMPARATIVE MUSIC STUDIES

Seminar Global music production in the age of longevity: aesthetics, markets, technologies, new professions and the transmission of knowledge

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13 November 2026

Award ceremony for poetic translation in memory of Benno Geiger

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14 November 2026

Auditorium “Lo Squero” Music on San Giorgio | Asolo Musica

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19 — 21 November 2026

Symposium Humankind and Longevity

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24 — 27 November 2026

ITALIAN ANTONIO VIVALDI INSTITUTE

Accademia Vivaldi. Advanced courses on the interpretation of the music of Antonio Vivaldi

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26 — 27 November 2026

INSTITUTE OF ART HISTORY

International study conference Antonio Morassi, fifty years after his death (1976–2026)

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28 November 2026

Auditorium “Lo Squero” Music on San Giorgio | Veneto Jazz

DECEMBER

Exhibitions

8 October 2026 — 21 March 2027

Londra, British Museum, Prints and Drawings galleries

Exhibition Italian Renaissance Woodcut 1400-1550

EVENTs

1 — 3 December 2026

CENTRE FOR COMPARATIVE STUDIES OF CIVILISATIONS AND

SPIRITUALITIES

Conference Religion after Longevity: Between Religious Traditions and Post-Humanism

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3 December 2026

INTERCULTURAL INSTITUTE OF COMPARATIVE MUSIC STUDIES

Ethnomusicological film festival Eyes on Music

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5 December 2026

Auditorium “Lo Squero” Music on San Giorgio | Asolo Musica

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9 December 2026

AMBASSADOR

The Historical Archive of Fondazione Giorgio Cini

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10 dicembre 2026

AMBASSADOR

Paolo Poli, A Man of the Theatre

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12 dicembre 2026

Auditorium “Lo Squero” Music on San Giorgio | Asolo Musica

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15 — 17 dicembre 2026

INSTITUTE FOR THE HISTORY OF THE VENETIAN STATE AND SOCIETY

Conference Longevity and Gerontocracy in Venice (13th–18th Centuries)

Becoming Chimeric: Verso Identità Radicali Attraverso il Glitch

Martina Menegon presents her artistic research, rooted in post-digital practices and cyber/posthuman feminist theories, in which glitch and chimeric embodiment become tools for interrogating identity, presence and affect in our contemporary condition, deeply mediated by technology.

Through the use and misuse of 3D scanning, game engines, algorithms and immersive technologies, Menegon creates glitch self-portraits and interactive environments that confront the viewer with unsettling, affective and often disorienting encounters. Her works reflect on identity and presence, exposing the vulnerability of the hybrid body, the fragmentation of the self and the poetics of the liminal.

Working through these assemblages of physical and virtual elements, her practice explores hybrid, fluid bodies in continuous reconfiguration, suspended between fragmentation, multiplicity and liminal spaces. This research develops into a reflection on an unstable, glitched self, situated between alteration and hybridisation, matter and metamorphosis.

The lecture will be held in Italian and moderated by Ennio Bianco, curator and digital arts expert.

Eyes on Music – online workshops

The event is part of a broader initiative called Sguardi Musicali: audiovisual ethnomusicology projects, launched in 2018 by the Intercultural Institute of Comparative Music Studies of the Giorgio Cini Foundation in Venice with the aim of promoting training and support for production in the field of audiovisual ethnomusicology.

Marco Lutzu and Simone Tarsitani continue their workshops focused on presenting and discussing topics in the field of audiovisual and multimedia ethnomusicology. This year, the project includes a new series of online workshops, each focusing on an area of technical, theoretical and methodological interest in the field of audiovisual media for ethnomusicological research.

Registrations are open for the first online workshop Eyes on Music 2026.

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Exploring Audiovisual Archives in Ethnomusicology
Guest speakers: Daniele Zappatore (Università di Roma La Sapienza) and Lorenzo Chiarofonte (Università di Bologna)

This workshop explores the role of audiovisual archives in ethnomusicological research, with particular attention to their potential as sources for analysis and dissemination. Bringing together different perspectives, the session will open with an overview of the current state of audiovisual archives of ethnomusicological interest in Italy, and will then address a range of topics including the use of archival materials within the project Listening Guides to World Music developed at the IISMC.
The workshop will also reflect on issues of access, cataloguing, and reuse of archival materials, with a focus on television archives and on collections developed within the framework of research projects. Through selected case studies, the session aims to highlight both the opportunities and the critical challenges involved in working with audiovisual archives in contemporary ethnomusicology.

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Diego Carpitella Fellowship – Presentation of current film productions in progress
Diego Carpitella Fellow 2025-2026: Nicola Renzi | Advocate of Yoik
The film follows the life journey of Ánde Somby—Sámi jurist and custodian of the yoik tradition. A biocultural heritage shared between the Sámi and their ancestral land, yoik represents a powerful expression of advocacy for multibeing justice. The film title refers not only to Somby’s professional background in law, but also to the Latin root “advocare”: to use one’s voice to carry aid on behalf of others. Yoik embodies this act of advocacy—a Sámi mode of voicing with and for beings whose claims, agency, and existence are unheard and increasingly threatened by settler colonial governance and extractive regimes.
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Ambisonics: Theory and Practice from Field Recording to the VR Headset
Guest speaker: Giovanni Cestino (LEAV – AudioVisual Ethnography Lab, Università di Milano)

Ambisonic recording has only recently become an accessible technique in ethnomusicology. Despite its flexibility in editing and output, the specific skills and technical understanding required for recording and post-processing have limited its wider adoption in research and dissemination. The workshop will offer a technical introduction to the ambisonic format, covering equipment options and basic editing strategies for beginners. Selected materials from case studies in ethnomusicology and acoustic ecology will be provided for a dedicated hands-on session. Particular attention will be given to output formats, with a focus on the use of ambisonic recordings as spatial audio for 360° video.
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Send an email to [email protected] to confirm your participation by May 5th in order to receive the Zoom link to join the event.

Solti-Peretti Répétiteur Masterclass XXII Edition

The Georg Solti Academy returns to Venice with the Répétiteurs Solti-Peretti Course. Founded by the legendary conductor Georg Solti, the Accademia is dedicated to training young opera singers and répétiteurs at their first professional experience. The courses are completely free of charge for students, giving them the opportunity to access training at the highest level.

The course allows six selected répétiteurs to hone their skills under the guidance of some of the finest international conductors, vocal coaches and répétiteurs. On 10 April, at the end of the Masterclass, the Sala degli Arazzi hosts the Academy concert with five grand pianos, six pianists and six singers. The concert is by invitation only. An innovative training course for those aspiring to conduct, constituting a rarity in the Italian musical context.

The concert is by invitation only.

Accademia Vivaldi Advanced courses on the interpretation of Antonio Vivaldi’s music

The Vivaldi Academy courses will continue in 2026: five in-depth meetings on the performance practice of Antonio Vivaldi’s compositions, each lasting three to four days, dedicated to young singers and instrumentalists. This season will feature courses in singing (church vocal music, chamber vocal music, musical dramas) and basso continuo performance. A maximum of ten selected students will be admitted to the courses, who will have the opportunity not only to perfect their interpretation skills, but also to explore the musicological aspects of the compositions studied.

Each meeting will be enriched by in-depth presentations by musicologists who collaborate with the Institute and those who are part of the research group La drammaturgia musicale a Venezia (1678–1792) (Musical Dramaturgy in Venice (1678–1792)) of the Ugo and Olga Levi Foundation, with the aim of integrating performance practice with the most up-to-date historical and critical studies.

The course, led by maestro Antonio Frigé and aimed at “basso continuo” instrumentalists (harpsichordists, organists, lutenists, harpists, etc.), will focus on the realisation of the bass in Vivaldi’s compositions and era, with particular attention to the harmonisation of Vivaldi’s recitatives in the opera Il Tito Manlio, RV 738.

The lectures and concerts organised as part of the Academy will be open to the public. Each course consists of three to five days of intensive study, comprising individual lessons and group discussions, and is open to a limited number of participants selected from the applications received. Please refer to the call for applications for details of admission requirements, deadlines and how to apply.

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Masterclass dedicated to basso continuo
Teacher: Antonio Frigé

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Masterclass dedicated to singing
Teacher: Gemma Bertagnolli

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Masterclass dedicated to singing
Teacher: Gemma Bertagnolli

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Masterclass dedicated to singing
Teacher: Gemma Bertagnolli

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Masterclass dedicated to singing
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Accademia Vivaldi Advanced courses on the interpretation of Antonio Vivaldi’s music

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Masterclass dedicated to basso continuo
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Masterclass dedicated to singing
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Research-Led Performance: 20th Century Italian Piano Music

With this workshop the Research-led Performance cycle resumes, a programme inaugurated in 2016 that has become one of the most popular and widely appreciated activities of the Institute of Music. Its success is confirmed by the participation of leading figures among performers of twentieth-century music. Among them is Roberto Prosseda, a pianist who has gained international recognition through his recordings of the complete piano works of Mendelssohn and Mozart. In his concert activity, his in-depth engagement with the Classical repertoire has been combined with a sustained exploration of twentieth-century Italian compositions for solo piano.

This dual perspective, in which the aesthetics of Classicism intersect with linguistic innovation, together with a strong interest in the distinctive relationship that the soloist establishes with the audience, reveals a profound affinity with the conceptual foundations of Research-led Performance, a project that brings musicological research and performance practice into dialogue.

The workshop focuses on a selection of significant twentieth-century Italian piano works, featuring music by Alfredo Casella, Goffredo Petrassi, Luigi Dallapiccola, Aldo Clementi and Niccolò Castiglioni. The programme will alternate musicological sessions devoted to the analysis of the works with practical sessions dedicated to piano performance.

The musicological sessions of the workshop and the concluding concert are also open to the public, subject to availability.

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TUESDAY 24 MARCH, 9–11

Gianmario Borio, University of Pavia / Fondazione Giorgio Cini
The BACH symbol in post-war Italian music and analytical observations on Quaderno Musicale di Annalibera

Susanna Pasticci, Sapienza University of Rome
Writing, gesture, performance: questions of poetics and compositional technique in the piano music of Casella and Petrassi

WEDNESDAY 25 MARCH, 11–13

Francisco Rocca, Fondazione Giorgio Cini
Tre Pezzi per pianoforte (1978) by Niccolò Castiglioni: analytical observations and sources of the compositional process

Michele Leggieri, University of Pavia
Aldo Clementi’s piano writing through the study of sketches

THURSDAY 26 MARCH, 18:30

Final concert, Auditorium ‘Lo Squero’

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Workshop on suiboku

The Centre for Comparative Studies of Civilisations and Spiritualities is pleased to announce a new workshop dedicated to the Japanese art of suiboku.
The event will offer an immersive experience in the traditional Japanese art of ink painting, a practice that combines gesture, contemplation, and aesthetic sensitivity. Participants will be guided in the preparation of the materials. This initial, slow and ritualistic moment promotes a state of concentration and inner calm. Subsequently, the fundamental strokes will be explored through exercises that reproduce fine lines, broad brushstrokes, and nuances created with variations in pressure and quantity of water. The emphasis will be on simplicity and spontaneity: a single gesture, if authentic, can encapsulate an entire landscape. The workshop will also introduce typical suiboku subjects, such as bamboo, orchids, plum blossoms, and mist-shrouded mountains, encouraging each participant to find their own personal interpretation.

Workshop schedule and booking
The students will be guided through this experience by the Artist Chie Iwakiri, who will lead three workshop days (4-5-6 March) for a maximum of 15 students per day, from approximately 15:00 to 17:00.
Participants may register for only one day. On the first day only, March 4 from 14:00 to 15:00, an introductory lecture in Italian will be held by Prof. Silvia Vesco (Department of Asian and Mediterranean African Studies, Ca’ Foscari University, Venice) for all registered participants.

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14:00-15:00
Silvia Vesco
introductory lecture in Italian

15:00-17:00
Teacher Chie Iwakiri
Workshop in English

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15:00-17:00
Maestra Chie Iwakiri
Workshop in English

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15:00-17:00
Maestra Chie Iwakiri
Workshop in English

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The workshop is free of charge, but registration is required.

To register, please send an email to [email protected] indicating your chosen day and the following details: first name, last name, telephone number, and affiliation (if you are a student).

Please note: Registration will only be effective upon receipt of a confirmation email from the secretariat.

As there are 15 places available per day, please note the following:

Registration requests with missing information cannot be accepted.
You can only register for one day.
The email must be for a single participant; multiple registrations will not be accepted.

In case of cancellation, please notify the secretariat as soon as possible to give another person the opportunity to participate.

Please also notify us of any delays.

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Artist / Master Instructor of the International Sumi-e Association

Born in Yokohama, I graduated from the Graphic Design department of Tama Art University in 1985. From 1989 to 1991, I stayed in Venice, where I practiced lithography at the Scuola Internazionale di Grafica and held a solo exhibition.

Since 2000, my work has been selected for exhibitions such as the Kochi International Triennial Exhibition of Prints. Later, I focused my practice on Suibokuga. Currently, I hold a Master Instructor qualification from the International Sumi-e Association and have received awards including the China Art News Award and the Association’s Chairman’s Award.

March 2025: Conducted a workshop at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and held a Sumi-e exhibition at SG Gallery.

Alongside my own creative work, I teach classes, lead workshops, and give private lessons. I continue to explore the history and the future of ink wash painting, valuing the discipline required for its irreversible process.

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Silvia Vesco is a professor of Japanese art history at the Department of Asian and Mediterranean African Studies at Ca’ Foscari University in Venice. After completing a Master’s degree in East Asian Art and Archaeology at the University of London and a PhD (joint degree Italy-Japan), she lived and studied in Japan for many years. She has organized several international conferences and curated important exhibitions of Japanese art in prestigious venues in Italy and Japan.
Her scientific interests focus on ukiyo-e prints and paintings (images of the ‘floating world’), with particular reference to the work of Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849), Japonism and textiles, as well as Japanese art collections in public and private collections in Italy. His latest publications include contributions dedicated to prints by Andō Hiroshige (1797-1858) and Utagawa Kunisada (1786-1865) and the refined iconography of Genji monogatari (The Tale of the Shining Prince), as well as Haori: Gli abiti maschili del primo Novecento narrano il Giappone, as well as the first translation into a Western language of two manuals on painting by Katsushika Hokusai. In addition, Einaudi has published the first of two volumes on the history of Japanese art from prehistory to the modern era. The second volume on the history of Japanese art and its developments up to the contemporary era is currently being published.

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Shodō and Suiboku as paths to self-cultivation

Shodō (calligraphy) and suiboku (ink painting) are not simply artistic techniques, but true “ways” (dō) aimed at spiritual perfection and self-knowledge. Through historical and philosophical analysis, some fundamental points emerge, such as:

The unity between Body and Spirit, since the practice requires absolute consistency between inner energy and concrete action. The brush is not merely a tool, but an extension of the body that must act with the spontaneity of the “heart-mind” (kokoro).

Learning takes place through a long apprenticeship based on repetition and imitation of models (kata). This apparent lack of individual freedom is, in reality, a prerequisite for internalizing the technique and achieving “living” creativity.

To produce authentic beauty, the practitioner must act without artificial intent, reaching a state of “empty mind” (mushin) that allows identification with the whole and, ultimately, even enlightenment.

Calligraphy and ink painting share concepts such as wabi, sabi, and yūgen with Japanese aesthetics, valuing sobriety, the charm of time, and ineffable depth.

These disciplines represent an ethical and aesthetic path where the ultimate goal is not to “possess a skill” but to “be” by overcoming individual selfishness.

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Singing in the fire with masks

The seminar, the third and final event in a project launched in 2024, will provide both theoretical and practical instruction on the use of masks in theatre, with particular reference to characters and settings associated with fire.

As in the previous edition, and in line with its vocation to disseminate and teach disciplines related to the world of entertainment, the Institute for Theatre and Opera is making its theatre archives and expertise available to hold lessons and engage in dialogue with guests at the venue.

The seminar, organised with the Théâtre Performance et Societé centre of the Université Paris 8 and the École Université de Recherche ArTeC – Nanterre, and is reserved for students selected by the two French universities.

Beyond Cinema

Third event of the 2025–2026 academic year for the ARCHiVe Online Academy, dedicated to the digital evolution of moving images and our relationship with them. The course Beyond Cinema, curated by Sara Francesca Tirelli with Miriam De Rosa, will explore archives, post-production, artificial intelligence and new audiovisual aesthetics, offering a critical perspective on cinema and contemporary visual practices.

Starting from an analysis of the transformations of the moving image in the digital age, the course aims to explore how technological evolution reshapes both artistic practices and our everyday relationship with images. At the intersection of cinema, art and new technologies, Beyond Cinema signals a shift away from the idea of the finished film towards forms of practice that weave together research, writing, editing and programming, as well as a bridge between pre-cinematic experiences and contemporary audiovisual practices. Central to the course are the construction and reworking of archives, the care of data and visual fragments, which become tools for observing how images are generated, circulate and sediment—and how artistic practice can still open critical spaces within the technologies that produce them.

The course will be held in Italian.

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The first lecture, given by Miriam De Rosa, expands this reflection by examining the increasingly active role of users in producing and reworking images, the aesthetics emerging from the creative use of digital interfaces and the significance of the archive as a dynamic space for rewriting and reinterpretation.
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If the contemporary moment is one in which we witness a transformation of images—now freed from their frames and embedded in our everyday experience—then the ways in which we approach, work with, and archive images become crucial. Starting from the assumption that, as users of digital technologies with a good degree of media literacy, we can do things with images rather than merely receive and consume them, this session broadens the reflections linked to the paradigm of immersivity and introduces examples of grassroots (and other) creative practices that make use of technology even without major production infrastructures. We will consider the tendency to turn digital interfaces into an aesthetic motif, examining how this occurs and with what outcomes. We will also question the role of the archive, understood not only as a repository of images but as a living space in which stories—and history—can be rewritten.

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The second lecture, led by artist and filmmaker Sara Francesca Tirelli, will focus on the analysis of her research and artistic practice, aimed at overcoming the boundaries between film, the visual arts and digital technologies, and on how processes of capturing reality, post-production and AI are reshaping the very notion of film and the visual archive.
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The artist and filmmaker presents her research at the intersection of cinema, art and new technologies, exploring territories where traditional visual languages intertwine with the possibilities offered by contemporary digital tools. The artist talk focuses on how the recent technological paradigm shift is profoundly transforming the very nature of the moving image, redefining its form, function and modes of experience. Processes of capturing reality, post-production and artificial intelligence become the tools of an artistic practice that interrogates the ways in which our perception organises the visible today. The image is no longer conceived solely as a linear projection on a screen, but takes the form of an immersive and dynamic environment, capable of transcending the limits of the screen and simultaneously spreading across devices, digital platforms, archives and computational infrastructures, opening up new possibilities for interaction and aesthetic experimentation.
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