Alexandra Nigito
graduated in Organ at the Conservatorio ‘P. Martini’ in Bologna with Lorenzo Ghielmi (1996) and in Harpsichord at the Conservatorio ‘B. Marcello’ in Venice with Andrea Marcon (2003). Her interests in historical performance and musical philology led her to specialize at the Civica Scuola di Musica in Milan with Lorenzo Ghielmi and Laura Alvini, and at the Schola Canto­rumBasiliensis (Hochschule für Alte Musik, Basel) with Jean-Claude Zehnder, Andrea Marcon, Jörg-Andreas Bötticher, Jesper Christensen and Rudolf Lutz, where she graduated in Organ and Historical Keyboards (2001). She also studied singingi. She holds a position of organist in Switzerland, performs concerts as a soloist and in ensembles, and has recorded CD’s for Brilliant Classics, Tactus, Arcophone and Swiss Radio DRS2.

In counterpart to her practical studies, she has pursued theoretical studies, graduating 2000 summa cum laude from the Musicology Department in Cremona (University of Pavia) with Prof. Albert Dunning. In 2008 she obtained a PhD from the University of Zurich with the dissertation Alla corte dei Pamphilj: la musica a Roma tra Sei- e Settecento, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Laurenz Lütteken. She was a member of the Swiss Institute in Rome (2006-2007) and was awarded the Schweizerischer Nationalfondsscholarship (2006-2008). She has collaborated on the project Musikalische Profilbildung des römischen Adels im 17. Jahrhundert: Lorenzo Onofrio Colonna und Benedetto Pamphilj with Prof. Dr. Klaus Pietschmann and Prof. Dr. Laurenz Lütteken (Universities of Bern and Zurich), funded by the Schweizer National Fonds (2008-2010).