Venice, Residential Scholarships at Fondazione Giorgio Cini

The Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice is offering nine residential scholarships, each lasting two months and covering living expenses, for doctoral students, PhD students, and postdocs.

Candidates shall propose a research project preferably focused on documents held by the Fondazione Giorgio Cini.

Research projects of a historical-critical or philological nature aimed at enhancing the archival collections of the Institute of Music are welcome.

The Institute of Music promotes research projects focused on its archival collections, a rich collection of documentary sources spanning the entire 20th century of Italian music: Alberto Bruni Tedeschi, Alfredo Casella, Niccolò Castiglioni, Luigi Cortese, Renato De Grandis, Gino Gorini, Domenico Guaccero, Egisto Macchi, Gian Francesco Malipiero, Giacomo Manzoni, Franco Oppo, Ottorino Respighi, Fausto Romitelli, Nino Rota, Ernesto Rubin de Cervin, Giovanni Salviucci, Egida Sartori, Camillo Togni, Roman Vlad, and Fausto Razzi.

The Istituto Italiano Antonio Vivaldi has an irreplaceable collection for any study of the Venetian composer: copies (microfilm, photographs, digital copies) of musical sources (manuscripts and prints from the period) of all compositions (theatrical works, sacred and secular vocal music, instrumental music) by Antonio Vivaldi, preserved in libraries and archives around the world, modern musical editions, and a complete collection of international Vivaldi literature (monographs and essays), audio and video recordings, and disc recordings. Research projects on new lines of inquiry and aspects of Antonio Vivaldi's biography, work, and compositional thought that have not yet been explored in depth, including in relation to his Venetian, Italian, and European contemporaries, are welcome, as are research projects on the evolution of Vivaldi's interpretation from the rediscovery of the Red Priest's music in the early decades of the 20th century to the present day.

Application deadline: 30 June 2026 

info: centrobranca@cini.it