Martina Papiro studied history of art, musicology and German literature in Basel, Berlin and Florence. In 2012 she received her doctorate with a PhD on Florentine festival prints of the Seicento. One of her research interests concerns the interaction between Music and visual arts in the early modern period. She has been part of several interdisciplinary research projects: European festival culture (Berlin, 2006-2009), epistemology of early modern images (Florence, 2009-2011), bowed string instruments c. 1500 (Basel, 2011-2015). Since 2016 she is staff member of the research department of the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis. She further is active as author, radio journalist for the Swiss national radio SRF 2 Kultur and as curator, e.g. for the exhibition „Hans Huber und das Basler Musikleben um 1900“ (Basel, Museum Kleines Klingental, 2014).