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New call for scholarship applications – Early Music Seminars

New call for scholarship applications for the participation at the Seminar: The Leuven Chansonnier
17-21 June 2024, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice

Deadline for applications: 15th April 2024

New Deadline for Application: 30 April 2024

The seminar is addressed to singers and musicians selected through an international call for scholarships.

Discovered in 2015, the Leuven chansonnier is an important source for our knowledge of late-fifteenth-century French-Flemish chansons. In addition to a Latin motet, it contains forty-nine unascribed chansons – mostly rondeaux and all but one in three voices. They include twelve unica, that is pieces only transmitted by this new source.

Nothing is known precisely about the chanonnier’s place of production and early use; but musical concordances have suggested, though not unanimously, that it may belong to a group of manuscripts originating in the Loire valley, produced in or near Tours in the 1460s-70s. Finally, some repertorial clues have suggested a dating to the years 1470-75..

The seminar will focus on the unica pieces, those still requiring special attention as to their possible attributions and stylistic features. Some of these – such as the virelai Si vous voullez que je vous aime – make sophisticated use of musical and poetic quotation, supporting the hypothesis that they belonged to a repertoire in use by the cultural elites of the time.

The seminar’s main lecturer will be Anna Danilevskaia, an expert medievalist who, with her famous Ensemble Sollazzo, recently recorded the entire contents of the chansonnier. Some of the musicologists active in the exegesis of the new source will assist the seminar with presentations or round tables.

The event is organised with the contribution of the Swiss foundations Concordance, Irma Merk and L.+Th. La Roche, and the Belgian Alamire Foundation.

Scholarship “Utopia, Art, and Spirituality”

Scholarship Utopia, Art, and Spirituality

Deadline: 15 February 2024

We are pleased to announce the first postgraduate research fellowship jointly organised by the Centre for Comparative Studies of Civilisations and Spiritualities of Fondazione Giorgio Cini in Venice (Italy) and the Archivio Luigi Pericle in Ascona (Switzerland).

The applicant awarded the Utopia, Art, and Spirituality grant will have the opportunity to spend two months at Fondazione Giorgio Cini in Venice and two months at the Hotel Ascona (including boarding) – Archivio Luigi Pericle.

Scholarships Accademia Vivaldi 2024 Masterclass on the performance practice of the music of Antonio Vivaldi

Scholarships Accademia Vivaldi

Application deadlines: 20 February; 8 March; 8 April; 13 May; 3 June; 27 October 2024.

The Istituto Italiano Antonio Vivaldi organizes six meetings on the performance practice of the compositions by Antonio Vivaldi, dedicated to young singers (max 39 years) and players.

Each meeting will take place at Fondazione Giorgio Cini, on the island of San Giorgio Maggiore, in Venice.

Masterclasses will begin at 2.30 pm on the first day and end at 1.00 pm on the last day.

Teachers are the soprano Gemma Bertagnolli, the conductor Gianluca Capuano and the organist and harpsichordist Antonio Frigé.

In cooperation with Fondazione Ugo e Olga Levi, lectures by musicologists from the research group La drammaturgia musicale a Venezia (1678-1792) are scheduled at each meeting.

Calendar

20 – 22 March: Basso Continuo, (Antonio Frigé). Harmonization of the bass in the compositions of Vivaldi and in the compositions at the time of Vivaldi.

8 – 11 April: Singing (Gemma Bertagnolli)

8 – 11 May: Singing (Gemma Bertagnolli)

12 – 15 June: Singing (Gianluca Capuano)

3 – 6 July: Singing (Gemma Bertagnolli)

27 – 30 November: Singing (Gemma Bertagnolli)

Call for Papers “Materiality at the Intersection of Ecology and Religious Studies”

Call for papers for the conference “Materiality at the Intersection of Ecology and Religious Studies”
Giorgio Cini Foundation, 21-23 May 2024

Deadline: 1st February 2024

The conference is organized jointly by the Giorgio Cini Foundation (the Centre for Comparative Studies of Civilisations and Spiritualities), Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (Centre for Environmental Humanities – NICHE, the Center for the Study of Lived Religion, and the Department of Asian and North African Studies), the University College Dublin, and Harvard Divinity School (Center for the Study of World Religions).

In this international, cross-disciplinary conference, we aim to investigate the literary, philosophical, anthropological, and political aspects of an ecological rematerialisation of religions and spiritualities, in dialogue with the ever-growing academic production related to the connection between religious thinking and environmental praxis.

We encourage the submission of articles in English covering a range of periods, from the early modern period to the present, across different cultural contexts:
– religions and ecology
– cross-cultural ecological epistemologies
– environmental theories and practices
– religion and ecology in world literature
– ecospirituality and the arts
– ecomaterialism and ecofeminism
– dialogues between religion and science
– transspecies and postcolonial struggles in a postsecular world
– planetary ethic
– ecological mythopoesis

Benno Geiger Scholarship announcement, for literary studies

The Fondazione Giorgio Cini offers one 3-month residential scholarship, to enable studies focused on the Benno Geiger Archive, which is preserved on the Island of San Giorgio Maggiore, as well as on other literary archives held at the Fondazione.

The 3-month research residency shall take place between October 2024 and October 2025.

– Download scholarship announcement here –

Application deadline: 30 June 2024

Info: premiogeiger@cini.it

New deadline | Early Music Seminar “Pulcinella musico e filofoso” Call for scholarship

Early Music Seminars Egida Sartori and Laura Alvini

Director: Pedro Memelsdorff

Pulcinella musico e filosofo

Neapolitan comic cantatas in the 18th century

Master classes and lectures by Pino De Vittorio, Corrado Bologna, and Dinko Fabris

Venice, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, 9-13 october 2023
NEW DEADLINE for application: 23 July 2023

“Pino De Vittorio is, with Peppe Barra, the last heir to the ancient tradition of singer-comedians who for centuries represented on stage the ideal union between cultured and popular art, a characteristic that has made the history of Neapolitan theatre unique. Like Peppe and Concetta Barra, De Vittorio was discovered by Roberto De Simone during the first edition of his ‘Gatta Cenerentola’. Ever since, he pursued both ethnomusicological research and baroque interpretation with worldwide success’ (Repubblica, 24.11.2017). No further words need to be added to those by Dinko Fabris.

In this particular edition, the Early Music Seminars aim at tributing the great singer-actor Pino De Vittorio, and promote the invaluable repertoire of Neapolitan comic cantatas that he masterfully interprets. The distinguished philologist Corrado Bologna will assist him by commenting on the ambivalent tradition – and especially the sacrificial dimension – of Neapolitan and Italian comic characters of the 17th and 18th centuries. The collaboration of the musicologist Dinko Fabris, is also planned.

The seminar is addressed to singers and/or actors selected through an international call for scholarships, accompanied by a basso-continuo group.

The event is organised with the contribution of the Swiss foundations Concordance, Irma Merk and L.+Th. La Roche.

Call for applications of scholarships

The call addresses young professional or semi-professional singers and/or actors, specialised in 18th century repertoire.

In order to apply, please send an e-mail to the secretariat of the seminar: musica.antica@cini.it – with the following materials by 23 July 2023:

– A detailed CV;

– A copy of an ID document;

– A video recording of a live performance of two works of the period, sent as a link of a sharing platform (Google drive, Vimeo, YouTube). Files sent by WeTransfer or similar transfer providers will not be accepted;

– A declaration of full commitment to attend the Seminar for the all the indicated dates (9–13 October 2023), if selected;

– A declaration of agreement to perform a non-commercial, recorded public concert at the end of the seminar.

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Scholarships

All selected fellows will be covered for: enrolment fee; accommodation in single rooms (max four nights); partial board; and travel (economy class tickets and up to a maximum of EUR 700 per person).

Travel must be agreed with, and purchased by, the seminars’ secretariat.

The seminar can be accessed free of charge by listeners upon request and approval of the secretariat.

Masterclass “The Exploratory: Venice New Music Courses”

From 24 to 31 July 2023 the Institute for Music presents The Exploratory: Venice New Music Courses, masterclass by Nicholas Isherwood, Abbie Conant, Roberto Fabbriciani, Joëlle Léandre, Robyn Schulkowsky, Daan Vandewalle, Olga Neuwirth, Gianmario Borio and Ingrid Pustijanac.

The title of this masterclass derives from a statement by Karlheinz Stockhausen:«The problem with music education is that we have conservatories, but we need exploratories». The concept of exploration will guide the event in all its components: instrumental and vocal sound production, group interaction, notation, and the scenic aspects of music making.

The masterclass is addressed to young musicians (singers and instrumentalists) and composers. It will be held at the Cini Foundation on the Island of San Giorgio Maggiore and at the Conservatorio “Benedetto Marcello” in Venice from 24 to 31 July 2023.

Application deadline: 1 June 2023

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Masterclass “Franz Schubert ammiratore di Beethoven”

From June 20th to 23th 2023 the Early Music Seminars of the Giorgio Cini Foundation of Venice presents Frank Schubert ammiratore di Beethoven, seminar by Andreas Staier and Amandine Beyer. During the seminar, Schubert’s two trios Op. 99 and 100 for fortepiano, violin and cello will be compared with Beethoven’s trios for piano and strings Op. 70 and Op. 97.

Moved by the death of Beethoven and aware of the fragility of his own health, between 1827 and 1828, the young Franz Schubert composed some of his greatest masterpieces, including the song-cycle Schwanengesang, the three late sonatas for fortepiano, the famous string quintet with two cellos, sketches for the tenth symphony, and the two trios op. 99 and 100 for fortepiano, violin and cello. The latter stand at the focus of the seminar that the Fondazione Giorgio Cini wishes to dedicate to the great Viennese composer. The first of these (op. 99, in B flat major) was published posthumously in 1836, while the second (op. 100, in E flat major) was performed in January 1828 and published a month before the composer’s death in November of the same year. Almost a ‘wordless lied’, the slow tempos of those trios have marked the Schubertian canon ever since. The two compositions will be compared to Beethoven’s piano and string trios opus 70 and opus 97.

The seminar addresses two groups of active participants to be selected by means of an international competition: specifically, two trios consisting in a forte-piano player, a cellist, and a violinist. Both will share the performance of a fellow concerta t the end of the seminar.

The call addresses to trios of young professional or semi-professional musicians (fortepiano, violin and cello), specialized in early 19th century repertoire on period instruments.

Applications by 21th April 2023

Download the announcement Frank Schubert ammiratore di Beethoven

Call for Articles – Special Issue – Religiographies, Vol. 3, n. 1, May 2024 – Reviving Muḥyiddīn

Reviving Muḥyiddīn: The contemporary uses of Ibn ʿArabī’s thought and the reinventions of Islam

The intellectual and spiritual legacy of Muḥyiddīn Ibn ʿArabī (d. 1240) has been the object of multiple socio-political and religious interpretations. The fact that his thought is at the same time intensely innovative and deeply rooted in the tradition may explain in part why it had such a lasting influence, both among followers and detractors (Knysh 1999).

In the West, Ibn ʿArabī appears today as a central reference in contemporary debates concerning Islamic spirituality, and his thought is one of the main sources of inspiration of the proponents of various creative adaptations of traditional Sufism in contemporary societies, ranging from the most conservative forms to openly New Age and syncretic movements (Morris 1986; Sedgwick 2017).

This special issue aims to explore and analyze contemporary cases of the use of Ibn ʿArabī’s thought, and to shed light on the motivations, dynamics and methods underlying its interpretations.

We invite scholars from all backgrounds in the humanities and social sciences, as well as social and political actors and artists, to propose contributions focusing on Ibn ʿArabī in connection with one or more of the following topics:

– Sufism, Sufi institutions, and the spiritual path

– Theology, metaphysics, and epistemology

– Anthropology, cosmology, and world vision

– Normativity, Islamic law, and rituals

– Ethics, ecology, and politics

– Social issues, gender, and diversity

– Art, media, and creativity

Download the call – Reviving Muḥyiddīn

Deadline: 5th of January 2023

Early Music – New scholarships available

Egida Sartori and Laura Alvini Early Music Seminars
Director: Pedro Memelsdorff

Viola bastarda
and the art of Italian diminuition
1580-1630

Master classes by Paolo Pandolfo
Venice, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, 2–6 November 2022

The seminar will address the technique of the viola bastarda―an instrument some of whose most important luthiers’ workshops were located in Venice ― as described or alluded to in treatises and repertories printed in Venice such as Il vero modo di diminuir by Girolamo Dalla Casa (Venice, 1584); Mottetti, madrigali et canzoni francesi by Giovanni Bassano (Venice, 1591), Passaggi per potersi essercitare nel diminuire terminatamente con ogni sorte di istromenti by Riccardo Rognoni (Venice, 1592), or Alcune opere di diversi auttori a diverse voci, passaggiate principalmente per la viola bastarda (Venice, 1626).

The call is addressed to young viola players.

Deadline for applications: 15 July 2022
Download the call for scholarship