Banting triple threat: Massimiliano Guido combines scholarly research, historical performance practice, along with organ teaching and playing.
The Schulich School of Music of UU直播 welcomes , recent recipient of a , Canada鈥檚 most prestigious award for postdoctoral research. 鈥淭he Banting fellows are among the world's most creative, inspired, and talented researchers,鈥� said Federal Cabinet Minister Leona Aglukkaq.聽 聽Seventy new fellowships are awarded each year, valued at $70,000 annually, for up to two years, giving researchers the support they need to succeed.
Massimiliano Guido is a currently working with Professor Peter Schubert on a project about the art of memory at the keyboard as a tool for teaching counterpoint and will also teach a graduate seminar on improvisation and performance practice in early music. He previously served as a post-doctoral fellow at the Musicology Department of Pavia University, focusing on music theory and historical performance practice of keyboard instruments.
Guido holds degrees in musicology (Pavia Univ. Doctorate and Laurea, G枚teborg Univ. Master of Music Research), organ (Parma Conservatory) and harpsichord (Como Conservatory. 聽In November 2010 he organized the International Conference Con la mente e con le mani, Teaching and Learning the Art of Counterpoint at the Keyboard, and he is now the guest editor of the special issue of the academic journal Philomusica-online, which will appear at the end of 2012.
He also maintains a website about historical improvisation () and has written extensively about music theory, performance practice and organ building. He鈥檚 also interested in the Italian art song and has recently published a book on the Italian singer Paolo Conte.
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* Guido, has also 聽been selected as one of twenty-five ambassadors of 聽a 聽European Commision initiative called PromoDoc, a project focusing on the promotion of European higher education at the doctoral level. This initiative seeks to improve the awareness of European opportunities for doctoral study amongst American and Canadian students, as well as students in Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan. 聽 One of twenty five individuals from Canada and the United States who were selected based on their extensive experience with and their knowledge of doctoral education in European Union member states, Guido will use his expertise to promote and advise students of doctoral studies opportunities abroad. 聽 聽He will hold at least two informations sessions for students interested in doctoral studies abroad, and will also serve a s a consultant for students who wish to learn more about the opportunities and realities of undertaking doctoral studies in a European Union member state. 聽 To learn more about PromoDoc, click here :
