The Vittore Branca International Center for the Study of Italian Culture
Residential Scholarship announcement
Residency Period
January — December 2026
Application Deadline
30 June 2025
The Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice offers 9 residential scholarships to PhD students and postdoc students who must not be over 40 years old on June 30, 2025, interested in spending two consecutive months in Venice at the Vittore Branca International Center for the Study of Italian Culture between January and December 2026.
The Institute for Music promotes research projects centered on its archival holdings, a rich collection of documentary sources spanning the entire Italian musical twentieth century: 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, Fausto Razzi. For more information: http://archivi.cini.it/cini-web/istitutomusica/home.html
The Istituto Italiano Antonio Vivaldi at Fondazione Giorgio Cini has an invaluable endowment for any study of the Venetian composer: copies (microfilm, photographs, digital copies) of musical sources (manuscripts and prints of the period) of all Antonio Vivaldi’s compositions (plays, sacred and secular vocal music, instrumental music), preserved in libraries and archives around the world, modern music editions, and a complete collection of international Vivaldi literature (monographs and essays), audio and video recordings, and recordings.
Research projects on new lines of inquiry and as yet little explored aspects of Antonio Vivaldi’s biography, oeuvre, and compositional thought, including in relation to Venetian, Italian, and European composers contemporary with him, as well as research projects on the evolution of Vivaldi’s interpretation from the rediscovery of Prete Rosso’s music in the early decades of the twentieth century to the present day, are welcome.