Lecturer
History of music
Biography
Cesare Marinacci, born in Milan, is a musicologist, pianist, and composer. He holds a PhD cum laude in Literature with a specialization in Historical Musicology, as well as a LUISS Master’s degree in Communication for Cultural Enterprises. He earned Conservatory diplomas with highest honors in Piano, and additional diplomas in Composition, Electronic Music, Jazz, Chamber Music, Choral Music, and Choral Conducting. He pursued advanced studies with Franco Scala, Sergio Fiorentino, Enrico Pieranunzi, Piero Bellugi, Luca Salvadori, and Raoul Meloncelli.
He began his university teaching career in 2000 as an assistant professor of Music History at La Sapienza University of Rome and has also taught at institutions such as the University of Malta and Link Campus University in Rome. In addition, he has taught Harmony, Music Theory and Analysis (TRPM), Electronic Music, Music History, and Piano at various Italian conservatories.
As a pianist, composer, lecturer, and artistic director, he collaborates with Italian and international institutions. A registered journalist, he has curated numerous music programs for Vatican Radio and has published musicological and pedagogical volumes, as well as essays and hundreds of articles for publishers including Promograph, Logisma, EDT, LBE, Brigante, Feniarco, and Libreria Editrice Vaticana. He is a member of the Pontificia Academia Mariana Internationalis and the Consociatio Internationalis Musicae Sacrae.
Research Interests
Music History and Sacred Music History
Interpretation and analysis of piano music
Composition and applied music
Cultural dissemination
Selected Publications
Itineraries of Sacred Music, Tofani, 2004
Chopin and Fauré: Elective Affinities, Logisma, 2004
Genius and Restraint: Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G – in Musicus Discologus, ETS, 2007
Syrens – composition for flute and electronics, in Musicus Discologus, ETS, 2007
Gaudete in Domino – motet for four voices, in Musicus Discologus, ETS, 2007
The Distant Star: The Piano Music of G. Fauré – monograph, Brigante, 2009
Glossary of Musical Informatics, Brigante, 2009
Sing a Song: The Vocal Music of G. Gershwin – monograph, Brigante, 2010
Après un rêve: The Vocal Music of G. Fauré – monograph, Brigante, 2010
The Sound of Time – Choraliter, Feniarco, 2018
In Grace, Wisdom – in Dante, Celestine, Boniface, LBE, 2019
Ineffable Harmony: Dante and Music – in Il Dantesco, LBE, 2021
The Rediscovered Song – in Dialectics and Paradigms of the Sacred in Music, Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2021
Pomerium: Writings on Music History, LBE, 2023
The Gift of Music: D. Zipoli – Musicae Sacrae Ministerium, CIMS, 2024
Concerts, Conferences and Recordings (selected)
30 July 1995 – Festival Internacional de Música, Tossa de Mar (Spain): solo pianist; works by Albéniz, Beethoven, Chopin, Marinacci, Ravel, Liszt
2 August 1995 – Piano Concert, Lloret de Mar (Spain): solo pianist; works by Albéniz, Beethoven, Chopin, Marinacci, Ravel, Liszt
21 June 1997 – Vanitas Vanitatum, Pinetamare: soloist with orchestra (conductor P. Bellugi); Chopin, Piano Concerto No. 1
22 May 1998 – Faculty Concert Series, La Sapienza University (Rome): solo pianist; Chopin (Four Ballades, Sonata No. 2)
27 July 1998 – Jubileum Concerts, Stresa: solo pianist; Chopin (Four Ballades, Sonata No. 2)
23 June 2000 – Musica in Primavera, Instituto Cervantes (Milan): pianist in trio; Mendelssohn, Fauré, Granados
1 April 2007 – Incontri Musicali, Scuderie Estensi (Tivoli): solo pianist; Beethoven, Chopin, Marinacci, Albéniz, Grieg, Ravel, Scriabin
19 December 2010 – PIMS Concert Season – Tribute to Chopin, Rome: solo pianist; Nocturnes, Waltzes, Four Ballades (Vatican Radio broadcast)
9 December 2011 – Christmas Concert, Anagni: solo pianist and conductor; Mozart K.414, Bach BWV 1056, Corelli
1–4 April 2012 – Spring Concerts, Vibonati–Sapri: pianist with orchestra and conductor; Haydn Piano Concerto in D, Bach BWV 1056
21 April 2012 – PIMS Concert Season, Rome: solo pianist; Chopin, Scriabin, Brahms, Liszt, Debussy, Ravel (Vatican Radio broadcast)
27–30–31 March 2013 – Easter Festival, Kraków–Bytom (Poland): solo pianist and conductor; Beethoven Op. 80, Mozart K.339
20–21 November 2013 – CADCA Festival, Čadca (Slovakia): solo pianist with orchestra; works by Haydn
24 August 2017 – Gran Sasso Festival, Rocca Calascio: solo pianist; Chopin, Scriabin, Ravel, Liszt
18 October 2018 – Music on Water, Rocca Calascio: solo pianist; Chopin, Liszt, Debussy, Ravel, Marinacci
5 December 2004 – Lecture, Patrica (FR), Pro Loco: Licinio Refice and Sacred Music
3 May 2005 – Speaker, Anagni, Palazzo Bonifacio: lecture Music in the Time of Boniface VIII – Accademia Bonifaciana
20 May 2006 – Speaker, Anagni, Palazzo Bonifacio: lecture Mozart’s Sacred Music – Accademia Bonifaciana
15 September 2005 – Lecture, Patrica (FR), Pro Loco: Itineraries of Sacred Music (published)
June 2007 – Course lecturer, Subiaco, Abbey of Subiaco: History of Gregorian Chant (Gregorian Chant Course), director Rev. Don Luigi De Romanis
September 2008 – Lecturer, Genazzano, Shrine of Our Lady of Good Counsel: music history and analysis in the Choral Music Course – Municipality of Genazzano
14–16 January 2011 – Speaker, Rome, Roma in Danza – Teatro Massimo: five seminars (Music History ×3; Music and Poetry; Les Ballets Russes)
October 2010 – May 2011 – Lecturer, Agropoli: analysis, arranging, and composition in the Jazz Music Course Cilento Jazz – OGI – Accademia Bonifaciana
9 October 2016 – Sole speaker, Tivoli, Scuderie Estensi: lecture Ippolito II d’Este, Patron of Music – City of Tivoli
2019–2021 – Artistic Director of the Literary Prize Il Dantesco, Anagni – LBE Publishing House
7 July 2021 – Speaker, Anagni, Sala della Ragione: lecture Ineffable Harmony: Dante and Music – Municipality of Anagni
6 December 2024 – N. Turriziani Classical High School, Frosinone: lecture Music and Classical Culture
Voices of the Soul – CD of piano compositions, Helikonia, 2009
Haydn: Piano Concerto in D – CD as pianist with the Kysucká Čadca Orchestra, Jam, 2014