Fondazione Milano proudly partners in the JERUS-IT-ARTS project through its renowned Civica Scuola di Musica Claudio Abbado. Founded in 1862 to train musicians for the Civic Band and choristers for Teatro alla Scala, the School has since become a cornerstone of Milan’s musical and educational scene. Today, it is part of Fondazione Milano Scuole Civiche, a leading higher education institution supported by the City of Milan.
With its five specialized departments—Early Music, Classical Music, Musical Research (IRMus), Civic Choirs, and Jazz Courses—plus the Music Education Center (CEM), the School offers one of the most comprehensive music training experiences in Europe. In 2022, it launched the Popular Music Composition course, a groundbreaking program unique in the European academic landscape. The School offers various professional, technical, introductory and amateur programs of study from pre-school level to post-graduate courses. It is also involved in prestigious international programs thanks to the high percentage of foreign students and the various permanent groups that have been formed and are often invited to give concerts in Italy and abroad. Over the decades, the School has trained a generation of leading musicians—including Alessio Corti, Lorenzo Ghielmi, Enrico Onofri, Emilio Pomarico, and Carlo Rizzi—and has welcomed collaborations with legendary figures such as Chick Corea, Cathy Berberian, Salvatore Sciarrino, Karlheinz Stockhausen, and Maria Tipo.
In 2012, on the 150th anniversary of its foundation, the School received Milan’s highest civic honor, the Ambrogino d’Oro, and the Presidential Medal of Merit in 2012.
international performer, since 2017 has been coordinator of the Early Music Institute at the Civica Scuola di Musica Claudio Abbado in Milan, where she teaches medieval music. She studied with Jacob Lindberg, obtaining a diploma in Lute performing at the Royal College of Music in London in 1989. In 1995 she got a dregree cum laude in Architecture a the IUAV (Venice).
Assunta Colamonico has been involved in the management and coordination of projects at the Scuole Civiche di Milano for about 15 years. She specializes in managing projects at the local, national, and international levels in the fields of music, dance, theater, cinema, translation, and interpreting.
has a university degree in piano performance. She has been working in cultural project management for several years for major musical institutions. She is currently part of the Projects and Development Area at the Scuole Civiche di Milano.
Head of Administration Department
Since Gennaio 2022 in Fondazione Milano Scuole Civiche after Administrative jobs in different industrial sectors.
Manager in a work group of four people he is in charge of accurate accounting practices and of drafting the financial statements and balance sheet.
Trained in historical musicology at the University of Pavia (Musical Paleography and Philology), and the University of London, since 1998 he has taught and conducted research at the Universities of Parma, Milan and Bolzano. He teaches musicological and philological disciplines for the Advanced Artistic Training courses of the Civica Scuola Claudio Abbado - Milan Foundation. Moving from a specialization in medieval and Renaissance music, he has long focused on the investigation of the early Baroque period, regularly publishing the results of his research on Italian musical repertoires between the 13th-17th centuries (cf. http://unibz.academia.edu/DTorelli).
