The committee undertakes to provide scientific and technical support by playing an advisory role in the planning of the itinerary’s activities and in the evaluation of requests for new memberships of the Itinerary.
Roberto Iovino (Coordinator)
Methodology of Music Education, Italy
With a degree in Mathematics and a diploma in Choral Music and Choir Conducting, from 1982 to 2018 he taught music history at the Conservatorio “N. Paganini” in Genoa, an institute where he served as director from 2014 to 2018. For over twenty years, he also taught at the Disfor of the University of Genoa. A music critic, he writes for ‘La Repubblica’ and ANSA. He is director of the “Centro Paganini per la ricerca e la didattica”. For his musicological studies, he received the “Luigi Illica International Prize” in 1998.
Laure Dautriche
Musicologist, France
Journalist, musicologist and French violinist. She holds a degree in Musicology and French Literature from the Sorbonne University in Paris. She wrote the first French biography dedicated to Paganini, “Paganini le violoniste du diable” (Tallandier, 2021) and “Ces musiciens qui ont fait l’Histoire” (Tallandier, 2019), in which she showed how fascinating are the links between music and great history.
Mariateresa Dellaborra
Historical, Italy
She has published books and musicological essays for leading national and international publishers on 18th and 19th century composers. She has edited critical editions of compositions premiered at major international festivals. Former member of the board of directors of the Italian Society of Musicology, she is editor-in-chief of several musicological series. A member of the board of directors of the Società Editrice di Musicologia, she is a member of the scientific committee of the Arcadia association (Milan) and the Centro Studi Paganini (Genoa). She is coordinator of the ITMI (Indici della Trattatistica Musicale Italiana) working group.
Susana Maria Goulart Pereira da Costa
Cultural History, Portugal
She is an Associate Professor at the University of the Azores (Portugal) and a researcher at CHAM – Centre for the Humanities, an inter-university research unit of the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences at NOVA University of Lisbon and the University of the Azores. She specializes in History and Cultural Heritage, with a particular focus on heritage management, museums, and religious studies. Susana Goulart Costa served as Regional Director of Culture in the Azores from 2018 to 2020. She is also a member of the International Center for the Conservation of Heritage (CICOP) in Spain and has been the Director of the Department of History, Philosophy, and Arts at the University of the Azores since 2018.
Wojciech Kudyba
Cultural Policy, Poland
Andreas Lange
Musicologist, Germany
Born in Dresden in 1951, from 1971 to 1976 he studied Arabic at the Martin Luther University in Halle, later working as a translator and editor at a Berlin news agency. From 1992 to 1994, he was responsible for a research group on Third World problems at the Berlin Academy of Sciences. Between 1964 and 1968 he attended a violin course in Dresden and from 1966 began to work on Paganini; from 1982 he began to study Paganini’s concert activity in the period 1828-1834. From then on, he actively participated in the main Paganini events and conferences in 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2021.
Marxiano Melotti
Sociologist of tourism, territory, and cultural heritage, Italy