A Degree in sociology (Milan University), with a thesis in social psychology and a dissertation in music sociology, and a Ph.D. in musicology (University of Illinois) with a dissertation on the oral transmission process in the Alpine region of Trentino (Italy).
Board Member of the Mediterranean Institute, University of Malta; Chair Study Group “Anthropology of Music in Mediterranean Cultures” (ICTM-UNESCO); Honorary Research Associate of the School of Music-Conservatory of Monash University (Melbourne), Visiting Professor at the University of Malta.
Research Interests: Aesthetics, popular song, opera (Donizetti in particular), the cultural history of music sociology, the history of music theory, the traditional music of Italy, Switzerland, the Alpine area, and the Mediterranean Diaspora in the US and Australia.
Web: http://www.um.edu.mt/medinst/music/staff (2012)