Claudio Vellutini joined the UBC School of Music in 2016. His research interests focus on the cultural and reception history of nineteenth-century Italian opera, its dissemination in the Austrian Empire, historiography, performers and performance practice, and staging. He has published essays and reviews in the Journal of the American Musicological Society, Cambridge Opera Journal, 19th-Century Music, Eighteenth-Century Music, and Notes. His current book project, under contract with Oxford University Press, examines on opera in the context of cultural exchanges between Vienna and the Italian States between 1815 and 1848.

Dr. Vellutini received the 2012 Indiana University Press Award (in recognition to the best student paper presented at the spring meeting of the American Musicological Society’s Midwest chapter), an Ernst-Mach Fellowship from the Österreichischer Austauschdienst (the exchange agency funded by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Science and Research, 2012-13), a Stuart Tave Teaching Award from the University of Chicago (2014), and an Alvin H. Johnson AMS 50 Dissertation Fellowship from the American Musicological Society (2014-15). His current research is funded by a SSHRC Insight Development Grant.

He received his Ph.D. in Music History and Theory from the University of Chicago in 2015. Previously he studied musicology at the University of Pavia (Italy), where he earned his B.A. and M.A., and at the University of Vienna (Austria), where he was an exchange student. He also completed a degree in violin performance in Cremona (Italy). Prior to coming to UBC he was a Post-Doctoral Resident Scholar and Visiting Assistant Professor at the Jacobs School of Music of Indiana University, Bloomington.