Antoni Pizà

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  • Director, Foundation for Iberian Music, Music

Research Interests

  • Criticism; biographical studies; Spanish music

Education

  • Ph.D., The Graduate Center, The City University of New York

Antoni Pizà has taught music history at Hofstra University (Long Island, N.Y.), The City College, John Jay College of The City University of New York, and the Conservatori Superior de Música i Dança de les Illes Balears. He is currently the Director of the FOUNDATION FOR IBERIAN MUSIC at the Barry S. Brook Center for Music Research and Documentation of The Graduate Center (CUNY). A member of the editorial board of Music in Art, Catalan Review, Papeles de música de Cádiz, and Itamar, his interests include Spanish and Latin American music as well as biographical studies and criticism.

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

(Books authored, edited, and co-edited)

  • Celebrating Flamenco’s Tangled Roots:  The Body Questions (Cambridge Scholars, 2022)
  • The Way of the Moderns:  Six Perspectives on Modernism in Music (Brepols, 2022).
  • Tomás Bretón:  Quinteto en sol mayor para piano y cuerda (ICCMU, 2022)
  • Gioachino Rossini: «La Veuve andalouse» (Reichenberger, 2022). 
  • Transatlantic malagueñas and zapateados in music, song and dance: Spaniards, natives, Africans, Roma (Cambridge Scholars, 2019)
  • Música de jazz:  Conferències de 1935 (Palma:  Lleonard Muntaner, 2019)
  • The Global Reach of the Fandango in Music, Song and Dance: Spaniards, Indians, Africans and Gypsies (Cambridge Scholars, 2016).
  • Francesc Guerau i el seu temps (Documenta, 2014; orig. published in 2000).
  • La dansa de l’arquitecte (Ensiola, 2013).
  • En la república del ruido: Crónicas musicales de Nueva York (Documenta, 2012).
  • Nits simfòniques (Ensiola, 2010).
  • J.B. Sancho: Pioneer composer of California (Universitat de les Illes Balears, 2007.
  • Alan Lomax: Mirades Miradas Glances (Lunwerg, 2006).
  • El doble silenci: Reflexions sobre música i músics (Documenta, 2003).
  • Antoni Literes: Introducció a la seva obra (Documenta, 2002).
  • Bravo Joan Pons!: L’univers del baríton a Nova York, prologue by Luciano Pavarotti. (Documenta, 2001).
  • Francesc Guerau i el seu temps (Govern de les Illes Balears, Conselleria d’Educació i Cultura, Direcció General de Cultura, Institut d’Estudis Baleàrics, 2000).
  • El music Joan Aulí. Felanitx (Centre Cultural, 1996).

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