Antonio Chemotti

Antonio Chemotti studied musicology in Cremona (University of Pavia), where he received his Master’s degree in 2013, having produced a critical edition of the Kyrie settings in the manuscript Trent 93. From 2013 to 2016 he was a research fellow at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. As a member of the Munich Doctoral Program for Literature and the Arts MIMESIS (Elite Network of Bavaria), he wrote a doctoral dissertation that examined early modern polyphonic music for the liturgy for the dead. In 2016 he was also a visiting academic at The Queen’s College (University of Oxford) and a temporary lecturer at the University of Regensburg. 

From 2016 to 2021 he was based at the Institute of Art at the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw as a postdoctoral researcher on the HERA project Sound Memories: The Musical Past in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe, working on the musical culture of early modern Silesia. In winter semester 2018/19 he was also a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Vienna. After the completion of the Sound Memories project (2019), he joined the editorial team of the journal Muzyka. He was selected as the 2020/21 Andrew W. Mellon Fellow at Villa I Tatti — The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies in Florence. At Villa I Tatti, he investigated the role of music in defining the emotional climate of death liturgies in post-Tridentine Italy.

In 2022 he took up a joint position as Assistant Professor at KU Leuven (in association with the Alamire Foundation) and work leader at KBR in the context of the FED-tWIN programme From Script to Sound: Connecting Heritage and Art through Research and Technology.