Project Leader

Agnese Pavanello

Agnese Pavanello studied Musicology at the universities of Pavia,
Regensburg, Freiburg im Br., and Basel, and at the University of
Fribourg, where she was awarded a Ph.D. in musicology. After working as a
musicological assistant at the Universities of Salzburg and Vienna
(Universität für Musik und Darstellende Kunst) and publishing articles,
editions of instrumental music (Corelli, Tartini, Locatelli, Bonporti)
and a book about Roman ‘concerti grossi’, she has been a member of
staff for The Gaspar van Weerbeke Edition and
editor of Gaspar van Weerbeke’s masses and motets. Since 2012 she is
working in the Research Department of the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in
Basel (Musik-Akademie Basel / Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz) with
teaching and research assignments.

Research Team

Cristina Cassia

Cristina Cassia graduated in Classical Literature and Musicology from the universities of Milan and Cremona; she also holds degrees in Piano and Organ from the conservatories of Mantua and Venice. After joining the musicological team ‘Ricercar’ at the Centre d’Études Supérieures de la Renaissance (CESR) in Tours (2010–2013), she earned a PhD in Musicology in cotutorship between the CESR and the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB – FNRS). Since 2017 she has been an associate researcher of the CESR, and from 2018 to 2020 she took part in the project Polifonia sforzesca at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Basel. She was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the University of Padua for the project Pietro Bembo’s soundscape (2021-2023). Afterwards, she was a research fellow at the University of Turin and adjunct professor at the universities of Turin and Milan.
Within the TartinianS project, she is in charge of the study and critical edition of Tartini’s didactic writings.

Giulia Manfredini

Giulia Manfredini is a baroque violinist. She has worked with ensembles such as Ensemble Los Elementos, Theatro dei Cervelli, La Cetra Barockorchester, Venice Baroque Orchestra. Giulia has performed in festivals such as the Innsbrucker Festwochen der Alten Musik and Freunde Alter Musik Basel, and in theatre shows at Theater Basel, Theater Luzern, and with Cirko Vertigo.  She graduated with both a Master in Performance and a Master in Pedagogy at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, Basel. Beside her teachers Leila Schayegh and Olivia Centurioni, meaningful artistic encounters were those with Amandine Beyer, Pablo Valetti, Rachel Podger, Evangelina Mascardi, Andrés Locatelli. Chamber music was a part of Giulia’s musical life since her studies in modern violin in Turin, with prize winner ensembles, and she is playing with the recently founded string quartet La Clementina. Beside her researches in historical pedagogy and organology, Giulia is working as a PhD candidate at the WEAVE Research Project on Giuseppe Tartini’s didactic writings and its digital edition.

Rolf Wissmann

Rolf Wissmann studied musicology, history and German literature in Zurich (BA) and Vienna (MA) and has been working as a research assistant at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis since 2018 and as a music librarian at the Basel Academy of Music since 2023.
His research interests are diverse, but his main areas of expertise are digital musicology and digital editions.
He is responsible for the technical parts of the digital edition of Tartini’s didactic writings. Mainly data modelling, text and music encoding in close collaboration with colleagues at the Institute for Digital Humanities at the University of Graz.