Mikaela Minga PhD Student University of Milan Dipartimento di Beni Culturali e Ambientali Via Noto, 6 20141 Milano E-mail: mikaela_minga@yahoo.it Native language Albanian Foreign Languages Italian, English, German, Greek AREAS OF INTEREST AND RESEARCH Musicology; Aesthetics; Anthropology; Place; Music in Albania and Albanian Studies; Memory Studies; Popular music and Film Studies. EDUCATION - University of Milan, Italy PhD in Music Dissertation Këngë Korçare: Song Making and Musical Culture in the City of Korça during the Twentieth Century. Defense Date: 30 October 2013 - CUNY Graduate Center, New York Visiting Scholar August 2011-February 2012 - University of Milan, Graduate School in Humanities, Milan PhD Studies 2010-2013 - Faculty of Music, Academy of Arts, Tiranë Master Degree in Musicology (Second Level of Studies) Thesis: Luciano Berio dhe Folk Songs - Dëshmi të marrëdhënieve bashkëkohore mes muzikës profesioniste dhe folklorit (Folk Songs of Luciano Berio, a case study of the contemporary interaction between a composer and folk music). Advisor prof. Fatmir Hysi 2006-2007 - Faculty of Music, Academy of Arts, Tiranë Graduation in Musicology - Gold Medal 1
Thesis: Muzika dhe filmi. Muzika e filmit në Shqipëri (Film music. Music and film in Albania). Advisor prof. Fatmir Hysi July, 2006 - Faculty of Music, Academy of Arts, Tiranë Student in Musicology, 2002-2006 - High School of Arts, Tefta Tashko Koço, Korçë Graduation in piano with the highest honors in the class of prof. Anita Vezuli, 2002 - High School of Arts, Tefta Tashko Koço, Korçë Piano studies, 1998-2002. - Summer school Kultura Wien, Wien (Austria) Summer school on Austrian language and culture August September, Austria, 2005. - Private lessons in German language with prof. Eridan Imami. 2007-2009 - Università per Stranieri, Perugia, (Italy) 49-o Corso di Lingua e Cultura Italiana (Scholarship of Rotary Club Perugia) 1-31.07.2003 TEACHING AND TUTORING Italy -Department of Cultural Heritage and Environment PopAV- Laboratory for Research Methods in Popular Music and Audiovisual Media. February May 2013 Albania - Faculty of Music, Tiranë Atelier of Musicology, Form and Music, 2006-2009 - Faculty of Theater and Cinema, Tiranë Film music, 2006 2009 - Department of philosophy, Elbasan Assistant/professor in Aesthetics, 2008 - Elementary School Europa, Tiranë Music teacher, 2004 2006. 2
PUBLICATIONS BOOKS - Luciano Berio e Folk Songs, një Gjeografi e Hapur Tingujsh [Luciano Berio and Folk Songs, an open geography of sounds], Tiranë: Uegen, 2008 - Ku ka muzikë [Where Music is], Tiranë: Uegen, 2006 ARTICLES, REVIEWS - Wind of change: L era di cambiamento nella musica e nella letteratura Albanese dei primi anni 90 [The wind of change in Albanian music and literature in the early 1990s]. Palaver (2013), n.s., n. 2, 237-250, e-issn 2280-4250 DOI 10.1285/i22804250v2p237 - Thoma Simaku. Rrugëtim në formimin e një artisti [Thoma Simaku and his artistic experience between Albania and Great Britain]. Studime për artin (2011), Tiranë, pp. 25-29. - Tefta Tashko Koço dhe Miti i Sopranos [Tefta Tashko Koço and Myth of a Soprano] Shekulli, 28.10.2012, p. 14. - Një Klasë e Re e Dansit Kontemporan (A New Class of Contemporary Dance in Albania] in Shekulli, 21.12.2010, p. 15 - Markeljan Kapedani dhe Përvoja Shqiptare e Muzikës Jazz [Markeljan Kapediani: an Albanian Experience in Jazz Music] in Shekulli, 1.01.2009, p. 23 - Një Norma Lirike në TKOB, [ Norma at the Albanian Opera Theater] in Shekulli, 11.02. 2009, pp. 20-21 - Mitrush Kuteli, mbi Aspektet e Publicistikës së tij [Mitrush Kuteli and his Giornalism], Tempulli, Nr. 7, pp. 86-89 LECTURES, SEMINARS, PAPERS -Paper: Concetti e Metodi per lo Studio della Canzone Urbana: Il Caso della Serenata di Korçë [Concepts and Study Methods for Urban Song: The case of Korça s Serenata] Sedicesimo Colloquio di Musicologia del Saggiatore Musicale Bologna, 16-18.11. 2012 -Paper: Serenata Korçare: How a Song Can Be Insular 3
Symposium of the Study Group Mediterranean Music Studies of the International Council for Traditional Music: Musical Insularity: How it favors conservation, how it triggers innovation. Universidade Nova de Lisboa Lisbon, 10-13. 07. 2012 - Paper: The Folk Roots of Albanian Music as an Issue of National Identity. Revisiting the Works of Çesk Zadeja. 19 th congress of the International Musicological Society: Musics, Cultures, Identities. Rome, 1-7. 07. 2012 - Participation at the Annual Meeting (56 th ) of Society of Ethnomusicology and Congress on Research and Dance. University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, 17-20.11.2011 - Paper: Le Mépris versus Il Disprezzo. Considerazioni sulle Due Versioni della Musica [Le Mépris versus Il Disprezzo. Points for Consideration on the two Music Versions]. Study group: Forum su Musica Mediata, Arte Acustica e Audiovisione. University of Milan. Department of Arts, Music, Theater and Cinema, 20.05.2011 - Paper: Wind of Change. L Era del Cambiamento nella Musica e nella Letteratura Albanese negli Anni 90 [The Wind of Change in Albanian Literature and Art Music in the 1990s] Conference: Il sogno italiano. Albania Puglia 20 anni dopo. University of Salento. Otranto, 19-21.05.2011 - Seminar: Voci e città II: La musica urbana in Albania [Voicies and cities: Urban music in Albania] Anthropology of Music Class. University of Milan, 7.04.2011 - Seminar: Voci e città II: Le cantanti blues in America fra le due guerre [Voicies and cities: Blues female singers in the USA in the interwar period] Anthropology of Music Class University of Milan, 29.03. 2011 - Lecture: Thoma Simaku, Kompozitori dhe Rruga e tij [Thoma Simaku and his Education Path]. Conference: Beyond the notes - Thoma Simaku & Tonin Harapi ABA Association, Albanian Ministry of Tourism, Sports, Arts and Culture Tiranë, 12.11.2010 4
- Participation at the conference for Humanae Litterae s PhD students: Ricezione e fortuna della Grecia antica nelle Humanae Litterae dell Età Moderna European Cultural Center of Delfi Delfi (Greece), 16-22.09.2010 - Seminar: Takime muzikore rreth muzikës së shek. XX [Rendezvous on XX Century Music] Cultural Center Vangjush Mio Korçë, 26-27.06.2010. - Participation at the conference: Audiovisuelle Medien und Identität in Südosteuropa Martin Luther University, Halle Wittenberg (Germany), 8.4. -10.4.2010 - Participation at EMC (European Music Council) conference: Music and New Perspectives in Distribution, Education, and Politics Brno (Czech Republic), 17-20.4.2008 - Participation at EMC conference: Changes: Chances and Challenges Music and the Future Barcelona (Spain), 19-21.4.2007 - Paper: Ahengu Gjakovar në Shekuj [The Aheng in Gjakova from a Historic Perspective]. Conference: In memoriam of the Albanian singer Esad Bicurri Gjakova (Kosovo), 24-25.05.2006 - Paper: Shprehjet Folklorike në Krijimtarinë e Shpëtim Kushtës [Folk Expressions in the Works of Shpëtim Kushta] Conference: Vepra e Shpëtim Kushtes ne 60-vjetorin e tij [The works of Shpëtim Kushta in his 60-th anniversary]. Faculty of Music, Tiranë, 29. 5. 2006 - Lecture: Baleti Plaga e dhjetë e Gjergj Elez Alisë, [The Ballet The Tenth Wound of Gjergj Elez Alia] Conference held for the Albanian composer Feim Ibrahimi, Faculty of Music, Tiranë, 10.10. 2006 - Paper: Mbi Veprat e Kompozitorëve të Rinj Shqiptarë [A Close Look to the Works of Young Albanian Composers] Conference: Muzika e re shqiptare [New Albanian Music] Tiranë, 13.05.2005 - Lecture: Serenata Korçare, një Shprehje e Emancipimit të Shoqërisë Shqiptare [Serenata of Korça, an Expression of the Emancipation of Albanian Society] 5
Conference: Muzika Shqiptare në Fillim të Shekullit XX [Albanian Music in the Beginning of XX century) Albanian Ministry of Tourism, Sports, Arts and Culture Tiranë, 10.05.2003 MUSICAL PERFORMANCES - Singer of the Albanian Traditional music group Symposium: European voices Multipart singing in the Balkans and the Mediterranean Universität für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Wien (Austria), 11-14.3.2005. - Pianist VIII European Youth Music Festival, Denmark -Sweden, 17-23.05.2004 VII European Youth Music Festival, Switzerland 15-21.05.2002 Dixieland jazz band St. Maria performing in concerts (2002-2006) and at the Jazz Music Festival, Korinthos (Greece) 2001, 2001, OTHER EXPERIENCES - Engagement as part-time translator of films and cartoons for A&A Studios Tiranë, 2007-2008 - Engagement as translator of children books at Uegen Editions, Tiranë, 2007-2008. - Journalist and author of children programs at Radio of Korça Korçë, 1998-2001. 6