Massimiliano LOCANTO | Curriculum

Massimiliano Locanto is Associate professor in Musicology and History of Music at the University of Salerno. In 2003 he earned a PhD. in Musical Philology, with a dissertation on Igor Stravinsky's serial compositions. In 2000, he received a grant from the Paul Sacher Foundation in Basel. He has taught at the University of Pavia, Faculty of Musicology, as adjunct professor for Musical analysis (2003-2004).

He has worked extensively on medieval monody, including Gregorian chant, liturgical tropes, the history of neumatic notation, and the relationship between orality and writing, as well as on 20th-century music, with a particular focus on the history of musical theory, the connection between music and dance, and the works of Igor Stravinsky. On Stravinsky, he has authored three monographs: "Stravinsky and the Musical Body: Creative Process and Meaning" (Brepols, 2021); "Musica al presente. Su Stravinskij" (with Gianfranco Vinay, Il Saggiatore, 2024); and "L'Uccello di fuoco: Stravinsky between Tradition and Modernity" (LIM, 2024), along with numerous articles in internationally renowned journals, volumes, and encyclopedias (notably "The Cambridge Stravinsky Encyclopedia", Cambridge University Press, 2021; and "Stravinsky in Context", Cambridge University Press, 2021). He also edited the volume "Igor Stravinsky: Sounds and Gestures of Modernism" (Brepols, 2014). His editorial work includes co-editing "Music Criticism, 1950-2000" (Brepols, 2019, with Roberto Illiano); "Composition and Improvisation in Fifteenth-Century Music / Composizione e improvvisazione nella musica del Quattrocento" (LIM, 2017, with Julie E. Cumming and Jesse Rodin); and "Tracce di una tradizione sommersa. I primi Testi lirici italiani tra poesia e musica" (Sismel Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2004, with Maria Sofia Lannutti).

He is Associate Editor of "Chigiana. Journal of Musicological Studies" (Accademia Musicale Chigiana, Siena); a member of the Advisory Board of the journal "Archival Notes" (Fondazione G. Cini, Venezia); general editor of the "Contemporary Composers" series (Brepols Publishers); and honorary member of the Centro studi Opera omnia Luigi Boccherini (Lucca).

In 2016 he was awarded the Renato Musto prize for Musicology under the patronage of the Rector of Naples University "Federico II".