Ph.D. candidate; violinist
giulia. capecchi@students. fhnw. ch
Born on 1 March 1995 in Rome. Giulia Capecchi graduated in modern violin at the Santa Cecilia Conservatory in Rome (2015) and obtained a Bachelor in Baroque violin at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague (2020) under the guidance of Enrico Gatti and Ryo Terakado and a Master in Early Music Theory (2022) at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis under the guidance of Florian Vogt and Johannes Menke. She is currently completing her Master's degree in Musicology at the Tor Vergata University in Rome under the supervision of Giorgio Sanguinetti and her a doctoral candidate at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis\Freiburg Musikhochschule under the supervision of Johannes Menke.
In 2020 she edited Pergolesi's violin concerto for the Royal Hague Conservatory research catalogue. She has joined several congresses such as GMTH, SISFA (Italian Society of Historians of Physics and Astronomy), GATM, SIDM, MedRen conferences. She won the third prize at the: GMTH 2023 essay competition, for the article: Corelli and compositional techniques of the trio sonata in solo fugues: experimental-analytical observations on the first fugue from Op.5 won. She has a contract with Springer for a book entitled: Joseph Sauveur and his Time: Music and mathematicians. Decline of the Greek Paradigm of Music, to be completed by 2025.
Her research focuses on the history of acoustics, artistic research and Renaissance counterpoint.
She also performs regularly as baroque violinist and violist. She has performed under the direction of Philippe Herreweghe, Roger Norrington, Michael Chance, John Holloway, Fabio Bonizzoni. In 2022 she cofounded the Urbs Musicae Ensemble with Irene Callieri with whom she explores the Italian trio sonata. With the Urbs Musicae Ensemble, she won 4th prize and the audience prize at the Bonporti Competition (2022).
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