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Roberto Giuliani has been the Director of Santa Cecilia Conservatory of Music in Rome for two mandates (2016/2022).  He graduated in Piano and in Art, Music and Performing Arts. He studied Harpsichord, Analysis and Composition. Before devoting himself to teaching and musicology, Giuliani has collaborated with the most important Italian and European Musical Foundation and Theatre (European Union, Mozarteum in Salzburg, European Center of Ravello, ICON - Italian Culture On Net, Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Teatro La Scala in Milan, Teatro dell’Opera in Rome, Scelsi Foundation of Rome, Cini Foundation of Venice, BMG-Ricordi, etc).
For some time, Giuliani worked for RAI-Radiotre, collaborating with RAI-Educational, RAI-Teche, etc., as well as leading research groups. After a nationwide selection, in 2014 he was included in the Registry of Expert Evaluators of ANVUR - the National Agency for the Evaluation of Research and University System, in the area of Music. Currently he is a member of the International Scientific Committee for the project Music in 20th-century Italy and board member of Le fonti musicali in Italia. He has also been scientific adviser to the Central Institute for Sound and Audiovisual Heritage (Discoteca di Stato), member of the Council for the Performing Arts of the Heritage and Cultural Activities and Tourism Ministry, member of the Governing Council of the Italian Society of Musicology and of the National Branch of International Association of Sound Archives (IASA), etc. Giuliani has led research projects, has participated in congresses, has published monographs and essay collections, essays in national and international journals (Early Music, Mozart- Jahrbuch, Nuova Rivista Musica Italiana, Rivista Italiana di Musicologia, etc.), and articles in national newspapers and periodicals.  For BMG-Ricordi, Giuliani published a monograph on Salvatore Sciarrino and for Guerini Publishing (Milan), the book, “Music in films and television,” presented in the Sala Accademica of the Santa Cecilia Conservatory by Ennio Morricone, Franco Piersanti and Roman Vlad.

Daniele Roccato Professor of Double bass at the Conservatory of “Santa Cecilia” in Rome, is a double bass soloist and composer. As a soloist he has performed at many of the world’s most renowned festivals and concert halls, often presenting his own compositions. Gavin Bryars, Julio Estrada, Fabio Cifariello Ciardi, Ivan Fedele, Sofia Gubaidulina, Hans Werner Henze, Filippo Perocco, Terry Riley, Nicola Sani, Salvatore Sciarrino, Stefano Scodanibbio, wrote for and worked with him. Together with Scodanibbio he created Ludus Gravis, the most recognized ensemble of double basses in the field of contemporary and new music. For dancer and coreographer Virgilio Sieni he wrote the music of Agorà Tutti, Vangelo secondo Matteo (produced by La Biennale di Venezia), CORPUS_Deposizioni e Visitazioni, Vita_Nova, DOLCE VITA_Archeologia della Passione, (produced by RomaEuropa Festival), Le Sacre - Preludio (produced by Teatro Comunale di Bologna), Cantico dei Cantici, Preludi/Cominciamenti. Within theatre he wrote the music for NuvoleCasa and Monsieur Teste produced by Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio (Chiara Guidi) and for and for LUS, produced by Teatro delle Albe (Ermanna Montanari, co-produced by ERT - Emilia Romagna Teatro) for which he received the nomination to the UBU Prize 2015 as a composer. He also wrote the music for Madre (produced by Teatro delle Albe, Ravenna Teatro). He wrote the music for the films The Sky over Kibera and ER by Marco Martinelli. Together with the composer Tonino Battista he realized the opera Assedio, coproduced by RAI News24. He worked with the war correspondents Lucia Goracci and Francesca Mannocchi. In the field of extemporary creation and improvisation he performed with many reference artists. Among the duo and trio projects are to be mentioned the ones with Olivier Benoit, Bruno Chevillon, Marco Colonna, Pascal Contet, Mark Dresser, Paolo Damiani, Marc Ducret, Garth Knox, Ciro Longobardi, Ivo Nilsson, Fabrizio Ottaviucci, Barre Phillips, Dominique Pifarély, Michele Rabbia, Terry Riley, Markus Stockhausen, Jay Schwartz, Michael Thieke.
He often improvises also with dancers, actors, writers, philosophers, poets, painters, graphic novelists. To be mentioned the project with painter, sculptor and poet Jim Dine, one of the founders of Pop Art movement.
Some of his many transcriptions are forthcoming for Sikorski, Schott and Salabert editions. He brought the double bass as a solo instrument into pop music with trio projects together with Lucio Dalla and Roberto Vecchioni. He was invited to hold seminars at Conservatoire National Supérieur (Paris), Universitat der Kunste (Berlin), San Francisco State University, Norwegian Academy of Music (Oslo), Ca’ Foscari University (Venice), Royal Danish Academy of Music (Copenhagen), UNAMM (Mexico
City), UNEAC (Havana). He recorded for ECM, Wergo, Sony. Several of his concerts were broadcast by Rai RadioTre, BBC Radio and Sky ARTE.

Fiorella Battaglia is the Director of the Laboratory for Ethics in the Wild in the Digital Humanities Centre at the University of Salento, where she is also appointed as Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy. Themes of her research are the hard ethical questions posed by emerging technologies which are shaping our social and epistemic practices and our moral experiences. She got her philosophy degree at the University of Pisa and received her doctoral degree in philosophy and politics from the University of Naples “L'Orientale” (2004) under the supervision of Rossella Bonito Oliva. 2016 she completed her habilitation in practical philosophy
and received her venia legendi from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität of Munich (Germany). She was also acting professor of epistemology at the Medical School of the University of Pisa and visiting professor at the Dirpolis and Biorobotics Institutes of the Sant’Anna School of Advanced
Studies in Pisa.

Marko Miladinovic (Vukovar, 1988) Poet and cultural promoter. He lives in Italian-speaking Switzerland. ProHelvetia Literary Scholarship 2019, ErbProzent Kultur 2020, resident artist at Landis & Gyr Stiftung Zug 2022. he Participates in national and international festivals. He has been invited to read his poems in several European cities and Tunis. Since 2014 he has curated and organized the Ticino Poetry Slam. He is active in the world of video poetry and sound poetry. Since 2016 he has been published in a dozen anthologies across Europe. Essays on his poetics have been written and texts by him have been published in German, Russian and Greek. His work first book is L’umanità gentile (Miraggi Ed., Turin 2017). His works are in the following publications: 2018 Mini antologia della poesia italiana contemporanea, Nizhny Novgorod, Vasarifest.ru; 2016 Guida liquida al poetry slam, Agenzia X Ed.; 2019 Unsere Schweiz, Zytglogge Verlag; 2021 Foglio rapsodico di scritture 3, BazarBookpress; 2021 Wortknall Spoken Word in der Schweiz, Der gesunde Menschenversand. In 2023 his new book of poetry will be released in Italy with the contribution of ProHelvetia, the Swiss foundation for the culture.

Duilio D'Alfonso holds a degree in philosophy from Rome University “La Sapienza” and a PhD in Philosophy of Language and Mind from University of Palermo. He graduated in Piano and in Composition from the Music Conservatory of L’Aquila. As a composer, a number of compositions have been performed in Italy and abroad, and were transmitted in various radio programs. He taught Harmony and Counterpoint in several Italian Conservatories. In 2020 he was appointed professor at the State Conservatory of music ‘Santa Cecilia’ in Rome. Since then, he has been
teaching Harmony and Analysis, Acoustics, Music Psychology, and Philosophy of Music. As a music theorist, he works on Music Cognition, Schenkerian analysis, neo-Riemannian theory. He is also involved in theory of Musical Form (Formenlehre) and in 20th century avant-garde music.

Dando Citarella is a musician and ethnomusicologist. He studied and collaborated with important artists such as Eduardo De Filippo, Dario Fo, Linsday Kemp, Roberto De Simone and Ugo Gregoretti. He participated, as opera and baroque singer, in some films directed by Mario Monicelli, Luigi Magni, Cristina Comencini and Franco Zeffirelli. In 2003 he was appointed honorary member of the Register of Italian and European Writers and Artists for the Italian National Commission for UNESCO for the work carried out in the field of research on Traditional Music and Popular Theater of Southern Italy Protagonist of Opere buffe , musical comedies and concerts in Italy and abroad and, in particular in 1996, at the Edinburgh Festival as the only Italian opera singer and as choreographer and author of a show of contemporary ethnic dances. Since 1990 he has been a professor at the I.s.f.o.m. (training institute for music therapist operators) in Naples directed by Dr. G. Di Franco where he teaches Folklore Music and Movement in the popular rituals of central-southern Italy and in the Mediterranean. Since 98 he has been collaborating with the U.Giordano Conservatory of Music in Foggia on behalf of ISMEZ and CONFIAM, as a teacher of Therapy and Folklore. In 2007 he creates the Mozart Project south of Naples thus bringing the Opera to the courtyards of small provincial towns as well as to festivals such as Berlioz of La Còte S’Andre, Lyon, Vienna, Graz, Salzburg, Linz and the tour in 2010 at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples on the occasion of the foundation of the Historical Archive of Neapolitan Song and later at the Ravello Festival. Professor of Traditional Music at the L'Aquila Conservatory of Music.