Start of the FED-tWIN-programme ‘From Script to Sound'
B-Br-ms-5557 f. 30v © KBR, Alamire Digital Lab
‘From Script to Sound’ aims to unlock and valorize musical heritage from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance through multidisciplinary and innovative research.
Antonio Chemotti studied musicology at the University of Pavia where he received his Master’s degree with a critical edition of the Kyrie settings in the manuscript Trent 93 from the Biblioteca Capitolare in Trento. As a research fellow at the Ludwig Maximilian Universität München, he completed a dissertation on early modern polyphonic music for the Liturgy of the Dead.
Since 2016 and until last year, Antonio’s home base was the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, where he worked as a postdoctoral researcher on the HERA project ‘Sound Memories: The Musical Past in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe’, and where he was also part of the editorial board of the journal Muzyka. In 2020, he was awarded the Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship of the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, which allowed him to work at the Villa I Tatti in Florence in 2020-2021.
As a mandate holder of the FED-tWIN programme ‘From Script to Sound. Connecting Heritage and Art through Research and Technology’, Antonio is joining the teams of both the Alamire Foundation and the KBR. The project frames a long-term collaboration between the Alamire Foundation and the KBR, and thus strengthens the already existing ties between the two institutions. ‘From Script to Sound’ aims to unlock and valorize musical heritage from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance through multidisciplinary and innovative research. The study and interpretation within the broader context of the handwritten and printed heritage of the Burgundian-Habsburg Low Countries will considerably increase the scope and impact of this cultural capital. Antonio’s connecting role between the Foundation and the KBR contributes to the scientifically-based valorization of this patrimony, which, thanks to interdisciplinary expertise, is being disseminated to a wide and diverse audience.