“Music, such music, is a sufficient gift. Why ask for happiness; why hope not to grieve? It is enough, it is to be blessed enough, to live from day to day and to hear such music-not too much, or the soul could not sustain it-from time to time.” ― Vikram Seth, An Equal Music

Short CV

Barbara Bolognese is a pianist, singer and gregorianist. She completed her Diploma in Piano Performance at the Conservatory "L. D'Annunzio in Pescara under the guidance of P. De Ninis, and studied Singing with P. Smith, P. Igelsrud (Boston), R. Zangari (Rome), G. Cinciripi (Pescara) while taking part in the choral activity of vocal ensembles in England (Soci Cantorum) and Italy (Vocalia Consort, Compagnia Virtuosa, Roma Vocal Ensemble). She is the co-founder of the vocal ensemble Jubilus Ensemble, based in Rome. She is a member of the Ecce research group in gregorian Chant (AERCO) and teaches introductory and advanced classes in English at the AERCO school of Gregorian Chant.

Conference papers

  1. «Sicut in cœlo, et in terra»: Commissioning and Production of Sacred Music in Italy from the Middle Ages to Today - Un elemento speciale nella notazione metense: l'occhiello di Laon (with Luca Buzzavi and Michele Loda)
  2. Musicology in Progress, 2023 - Un elemento speciale nella notazione metense: l'occhiello di Laon (with Luca Buzzavi)
  3. NUME, IX ciclo di Studi Medievali - Un elemento speciale nella notazione metense: l'occhiello di Laon (with Luca Buzzavi)
  4. NUME, IX ciclo di Studi Medievali - I manoscritti della Badia fiorentina (with Giovanna Riboli)
  5. NUME, VIII ciclo di Studi Medievali - Il canto gregoriano tra logica e retorica (with Luca Buzzavi)​

GregorioTeX notation for Beneventan and Old Roman chant

With Aurelio Carlucci, I have developed some new fonts to write Old Roman and Beneventan plainchant in square notation. We have also implemented those in one of the current software which is regularly used to write Gregorian chant and Medieval plainchant in general. The repository is called OldRomanNeumes/Iohannes, and can be found on GitHub: here is our WEBSITE!

I co-manage a Gregorian chant-related BLOG with Luca Buzzavi, go take a look if you want to read some of my posts (in Italian).