Formerly a Lecturer in Music at Magdalen College, Jesus College and Lincoln College, University of Oxford, musicologist and violinist Alberto Sanna joined Liverpool Hope University’s Music Department in January 2012.

Alberto’s scholarly work focuses on seventeenth- and eighteenth-century music, and is based on a blending of critical-theoretical with historical-contextual approaches. Further research interests are historical performance practice and music analysis. A book on Arcangelo Corelli’s poetics of the sonata is currently in preparation. Future projects include an investigation into Alessandro Scarlatti’s compositional strategies in the setting of literary texts to music and a series of critical editions of seventeenth-century solo violin music.

As a violinist, Alberto performs on period instruments solo, chamber and orchestral music from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries. From 1995 to 2005, he freelanced throughout Europe with numerous orchestras. From 1997 to 2001, he directed the ensemble ‘Prometeus’, recording the CD A la vida bona and the CD-Rom Le sette città regie del regno di Sardegna. In 2005 he embarked upon a new project focused on live programmes and recordings of neglected repertoires from seventeenth-century Italy. The CD Fidibus Canere, released in 2007, launched the project with a rich collection of violin sonatas, while introducing the main aesthetic ideas underlying the whole enterprise. A new recording is currently in preparation.

Born in Cagliari, Sardinia, Alberto was trained at the Milan Conservatory, the Longy School of Music in Boston, and the University of Oxford. He studied modern violin with Felice Cusano and Zinaida Gilels, historical violin with Phoebe Carrai and Manfredo Kraemer, and completed a doctorate in historical musicology at Oxford University under the supervision of Professor Laurence Dreyfus.

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Lecturer in Music, Liverpool Hope University
Creative Campus (CAP 208), 7 Shaw Street
Liverpool L6 1HP (L3 8QB for sat nav)

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