About Us

Josep Maria Gregori i Cifré (Igualada, 1954)

Professor of Musicology at the UAB. His musicological research covers historical and performance aspects of music from the 15^th to the 19^th centuries and topics concerning musical thought and aesthetics, on which he has published numerous books and articles, as well as presenting lectures and reports at national and international conferences. He has received several awards for his musicological research, such as the Higini Anglès prize from the Catalan Musicology Society (1977), the Güell Foundation of the Sant Jordi Royal Catalan Academy of Fine Arts (1982), Emili Pujol (1991), Ernest Lluch Foundation (2008), E. Lluch City of Olot Scholarship (2010) and Joan Mercader (Igualada, 2014). He was the secretary of the Josep Ricart i Matas Institute of Musicology (1979-2002); secretary of the Catalan Musicology Society (1992-2004); academic correspondent for the Sant Jordi Royal Catalan Academy of Fine Arts (2007) and a member of the Institute for Catalan Studies (2017).

IFMuC: Heir to the first research on musical heritage inaugurated by Francesc Bonastre from the UAB Musical Documentation Center (1973-1979) and the Josep Ricart i Matas Musicology Institute (1980-2016), the IFMuC project was started in 2001 by Josep Maria Gregori at the Department of Art and Musicology of the UAB with the aim of carrying out the cataloging of the musical collections of Catalonia. Currently IFMuC is coordinated by Josep Maria Gregori and Carles Badal.

Jordi Ballester i Gibert (Terrassa, 1963-2023)

Former president of the Catalan Society of Musicology and professor of musicology at the UAB, he dedicated his research to organology and musical iconography. He was the author of numerous publications on these subjects. In recent years his work has focused particularly on the relationship between music and visual arts. He was a regular contributor to the magazine Music in Art (Research Center for Music Iconography / City University of New York) and the magazine Imago Musicae, main international references on these topics. He was a member of the Study Group for Musical Iconography in European Art, and liaison officer at the Association RIdIM (Répertoire International d’Iconographie Musicale) representing the International Society of Musicology, as well as a member of the jury of The Claire Brook Award -for works on music iconography- convened by the Barry S. Brook Center for Music Research and Documentation (The Graduate Center -CUNY-).

IcMuC: Project started during the 2016-17 academic year within the Department of Art and Musicology of the UAB, under the direction and coordination of Jordi Ballester. Its aim is to catalog works of art with musical iconography preserved in Catalonia. Currently working on the project are Anna Andreu, Francesca Artigues, Vanessa Esteve, Maria Lafuente and Cristina Reynés, specialists in musical iconography.

Emili Ros-Fàbregas (Institució Milà i Fontanals, CSIC)

He has been a Tenured Researcher in Musicology at the CSIC, Milá i Fontanals Institution, Barcelona since 2009. He obtained a master’s degree in Piano from the University of Hartford and a PhD in Musicology from the City University of New York (CUNY, 1992), where he worked on international programmes promoted by the CUNY Center for Music Research and Documentation, of which he became Associate Director (1992-1993). His research especially focuses on Renaissance music, music historiography and, more recently, aspects of digital musicology. He taught music history at Brooklyn College, New York (1986-1992) and Boston University (1993-1998), where he managed the Collegium Musicum. After living for twenty years in the United States, he was then a Senior Lecturer at the universities of Granada and Girona. He has received fellowships from the universities of Cambridge and Chicago. He is the curator of the digital resources Fons de Música Tradicional IMF-CSIC (FMT) and Books of Hispanic Polyphony IMF-CSIC (BHP). In 2013, he was elected as a Member of Academia Europaea.

FMT i BHP: The Fons de Música Tradicional IMF-CSIC (FMT) digital library is the most important online resource on traditional oral music in the Hispanic world collected from all around the Iberian Peninsula. The Llibres de Polifonia Hispana (LPH) digital library is a research tool on handwritten and printed books on polyphony in Spain and books about Hispanic polyphony from other countries.

Carles Badal Pérez-Alarcón (Barcelona, 1980)

PhD in Musicology from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), specializing in musical archives and heritage. His doctoral dissertation focuses on the history of the Santa Maria del Pi music chapel in Barcelona during the period 1700-1936, examining the standard of living of its musicians by comparing their income with macroeconomic data. Since 2016, he has contributed to the cataloging of musical collections for the IFMuC project (UAB), which he has also coordinated since 2023. With a particular interest in Optical Music Recognition (OMR) and Handwritten Music Recognition (HMR) technologies, he has participated in the DoLoRes project at the UAB Computer Vision Center, where he contributed to the development of software for the automatic transcription of handwritten scores. Prior to and alongside his research, he has been active as a performer in several pop and rock music bands since 2016.