"Music & Letters Award" from Oxford Academic for Hamburg music theorist
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Roberta Vidic won the "Music & Letters Award" from Oxford Academic for her presentation "An explicative example of 'Palestrina practice' from the 1720s: analysis, partimento, or something else?" at the "21st Biennial International Conference on Baroque Music" (ICBM 2025) at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire (Birmingham City University). This semester, Roberta has also been invited to give lectures at the Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference in Newcastle and Durham (MedRen 2025), the Intercongressional Symposium of the International Musicological Society in Valencia (IMS 2025) and the 9th International Conference of the IMS Regional Association for the History of Music in the Balkans in Brașov (RASMB 2025). She will also moderate sections and participate in international expert groups.
Vita
Roberta Vidic (*1987) has been working internationally for 25 years, first as a concert musician, then as a music theorist and musicologist. After winning early competition prizes, she received her first harp diploma at the age of 17 in Udine (Italy). After graduating from high school, she completed an artistic diploma at the HMT Munich in 2007-2011, a BA in composition/music theory and an MA in music theory at the HfMT Hamburg in 2011-2016 and a supplementary degree in historical pedal harps and style-based improvisation at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in 2017-2019. She is currently completing a doctorate in musicology at the HfMT, which is being reviewed by Jan Philipp Sprick (HfMT), Louis Delpech (HfMT), Klaus Pietschmann (JGU Mainz) and Thomas Christensen (University of Chicago).
Since her BA studies at the HfMT, Roberta has been regularly invited to congresses in Europe, Great Britain, China, Russia, Turkey and the USA. She was the first foreigner to win an award in the Society for Music Theory (GMTH) essay competition (2015, 2018) and has since published in the ZGMTH, various conference proceedings and with renowned publishers such as Brepols, Olms and Bärenreiter. Her doctoral project was funded by the Fondazione di Venezia and Fondazione Cini in Venice, the German Historical Institute (DHI) in Rome and the Pro Exzellenzia funding program in Hamburg, among others. Roberta is an active member of various working groups of the Gesellschaft für Musikforschung (GfM), the American Musicological Society (AMS), the Society for Music Theory (SMT), the Royal Musical Association (RMA) and the International Musicological Society (IMS). She was previously co-spokesperson of the International Working Group of the Society for Music Theory (GMTH).
Roberta has been teaching continuously at the HfMT since 2016. From 2016 to 2022, she was largely responsible for the music theory subjects in the BA Church Music. From 2022, she took over the stylistics lecture and further developed the main subject of music theory in research and teaching. She also coordinated third-party funded projects for teaching development, helped organize international conferences and designed the "HfMT Hamburg Music Theory Colloquia" with guests from Germany and abroad. During the pandemic, she was involved in the Digital Teaching Working Group and later contributed to the HfMT's digitalization strategy.
After 15 years, Roberta will leave the HfMT at the end of the 2025 summer semester. We wish her all the best for the completion of her doctorate and her future career.
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