Gender
Female
About
Location
Verona
Birthday:
February 18
Intérêt principal (principal interest)
Ars nova, Théorie musicale, Instruments de musique
Présentation: travaux et (ou) intérêts (Presentation: works and (or) interests)
Vania Dal Maso is a performer-scholar appreciated for her work in the field of early music, with special experience in the research, interpretation, and dissemination of medieval and renaissance repertoire. She graduated from the Conservatories of Venice and Padua in Piano, Harpsichord, Choral Music and Choral Conducting.
Since 1998 she has joined Bologna’s Accademia Filarmonica as harpsichordist. As a tenured professor, she taught Music Notation and Renaissance Music Theory at the Conservatory of Verona until 2023. She held lectures in Sweden, Denmark, and Germany as part of the LLP/ERASMUS teaching mobility programme.
Her expertise and interests are centred both on historically informed performance and on the research and study of musical sources of the past. Dal Maso is especially dedicated to the literature for stringed keyboard instruments of the 15th to 18th centuries (clavicymbalum, clavicytherium, clavichord, harpsichord), to the original sources and performing practice of those ages, with concerts, conferences and master classes in Italy and abroad.
She has appeared in Italy, Austria, Germany, Denmark, and Sweden, performing a repertoire ranging from medieval to 21st-century music.
Regularly she participates in national and international conferences in Italy and Europe, presenting studies and performances on keyboard instruments (Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference: Munich 2023, Basel 2019; International Conference “The Harpsichord in the 16th century” University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna: Wien 2021, Bologna 2023; Società Italiana di Musicologia: Milano 2024, Cremona 2022, Verona 2014; Convegno internazionale Rivista Polifonie: Arezzo 2021;
“Il discorso musicale” Athena Musica - Università di Bologna 2021). Thanks to invitations from various music conservatories (Alessandria, Florence, Pesaro, Venice, Vicenza) to hold seminars and master classes on the clavichord, clavicymbalum and clavicytherium, she has considerably contributed to these instruments’ revival, attracting the interest of participants.
Dal Maso has moreover held several public lectures: among them “ri-Creazioni” (Associazione Athena Musica - Università di Bologna) at the International Museum and Music Library of Bologna, where, illustrating works there kept, she explored Renaissance music theory topics.
Dal Maso is the author of the book Teoria e Pratica della Musica Italiana del Rinascimento (LIM, 2017), favourably received by the critics (Early Music Review, Il Giornale della Musica, Athena Musica); she has published Il secondo libro delli motetti di Bartolomeo Barbarino (SPES, 2007), and Sonate per Clavicembalo di Autori veneziani (Armelin Musica, 2005), and has written several articles and essays. She has recorded the CDs Il clavicembalo a Venezia and Johann Adolf Hasse nella Serenissima, with unpublished music from the 18th century.
