Alessio Olivieri

Dr. Alessio Olivieri is a native Italian musicologist and classical guitarist. He is an Assistant Professor in Music History at the Glenn Korff School of Music, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, and a Research Associate at the Center for Iberian and Latin American Music (CILAM) at the University of California Riverside.<br>Before coming to UNL, he served as a guitar instructor at Nebraska Wesleyan University and the PennWest Edinboro University of Pennsylvania and as an Associate Instructor at the University of California Riverside. His research examines realism and <i>verismo</i> in the Spanish musical theater at the crossroads of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Other research interests include Italian chamber romances (art songs) of the 19th century —with his book <i>Le romanze da salotto di Michele Bellucci. </i><i>Le edizioni a stampa e i manoscritti autografi</i> (2010). His MM graduate thesis, titled “Il Tenebrismo: la chitarra della <i>noche oscura </i>da Manuel de Falla ad Angelo Gilardino,” introduced the concept of “tenebrism” as a new poetic in the 20th-century guitar repertoire. He has presented his scholarship at national and international conferences in the U.S., Italy, and Australia. As a professional classical guitarist, he has performed throughout the U.S., Italy, Australia, and New Zealand, especially as a duo with his wife, soprano Elisa Ramon.<br>Dr. Olivieri holds a Ph.D. in Musicology from the University of California Riverside, a Master of Music in Classical Guitar Performance from Manhattan School of Music (New York City), and a Master of Music (summa cum laude) in Music Publishing, a Diploma in Classical Guitar, and a Bachelor of Music in Musicology all from the Cesare Pollini Conservatory in Padua, Italy.