Emilio Ros-Fábregas - Biography#

Emilio Ros-Fábregas, Permanent Researcher (“Investigador Científico”, 2009- ) in Musicology at the CSIC-IMF in Barcelona, earned his Ph.D. in Musicology at The Graduate School, The City University of New York (CUNY), in 1992, with a dissertation about the most important manuscript of polyphony compiled at the Crown of Aragon in the early 16th century (Barcelona, Biblioteca de Catalunya, M.454); the dissertation received the CUNY Barry S. Brook Award 1992-93. At the CUNY Center for Music Research and Documentation (1985-1993), of which he became Associate Director in 1992-93, he worked on different international projects and publications involving bibliography (Assistant Editor, RILM Abstracts), music iconography (Research Assistant, RIdIM/RCMI), and French opera (Production Editor of eight volumes of the collection French Opera of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, Pendragon Press). He has taught at Brooklyn College (1986-1992) and Boston University (1993-1998), where he also conducted the Collegium Musicum. After nineteen years in the United States, he returned to Spain, taught at the Universidad de Granada (1998-2007), the Universitat de Girona (2007-2009), and now collaborates with the Universitat de Barcelona; he has been advisor of several Ph.D. dissertations. In 2001 he was a BBVA Foundation Visiting Fellow at the University of Cambridge, and most recently has been “2011-12 Joan Coromines Visiting Chair of Catalan Studies” at the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, at the University of Chicago.

Ros-Fábregas has been a researcher in three consecutive Spanish R+D Projects; he is currently responsible for the R+D Project “Libros de polifonía hispana (1450-1650): catálogo sistemático y contexto histórico-culural” [Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation, HAR 2012-33604] and he is scientific coordinator of a Marie Curie Integration Grant (FP7-PEOPLE-2012-CIG) whose principal researcher is Dr. Tess Knighton. He is a member of the Research Group “Música, Patrimoni i Societat” (Generalitat de Catalunya, AGAUR 2009 SGR 1329) and responsible for an initiative to catalogue, digitize and make available online the “Fons de Música Tradicional (CSIC-IMF)” of more than 20.000 melodies of traditional music collected throughout Spain between 1944 and 1960: http://www.musicatradicional.eu.