Roberta De Piccoli completed her musical studies at the Marcello Conservatoire of Venice; she graduated with honours in Literature and in Musicology and Musical Heritage at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice; she obtained an international postgraduate diploma in Research Methodology for Music Education (Accademia Filarmonica of Bologna) and a teaching qualification for music education in lower and upper secondary schools (University of Bologna). Among her additional research training qualifications are: *The Critical Editing of Music* (Lake Como School – Fondazione Volta); *Canti erranti, diaspore e trasmigrazioni di musiche e musicisti nel Mediterraneo* (University of Pavia – Radio3 – Centre for Jewish Music, Jerusalem); *Infanzia: mito, culto, consumo* (International Advanced Course in Culture – Fondazione G. Cini). She is the curator of the Music Collection of the Fondazione Tancredi di Barolo in Turin and a member of the Scientific Committee of the International Centre on Interactive Books. She has collaborated with: Plautus Festival (Sarsina), Fondazione Aterballetto (Reggio Emilia), Fondazione Teatro La Fenice, Associazione MusiKamera and Musik@giovani (Venice), Fondazione Teatro Comunale Pavarotti-Freni (Modena), Fondazione Toscanini (Parma), ViolOpera (Treviso), Teatro Comunale A. Rendano (Cosenza). Between 2007 and 2015 she worked as a correspondent for *Il Giornale della Musica*. Her research activity is divided between musicology applied to pedagogy and historical musicology. The project *Propp’s narrative structures and music improvisation*, developed in collaboration with S. Battaglia at the Siena Jazz Foundation, has been further developed in the Conservatoires of Venice and Bologna and later implemented for youth string orchestras with A. Modesti (Conservatoire of Lugano). Her historical research focuses on post-unification Italy and the twentieth century (in particular: L. Ferrari Trecate, E. Oddone, L. Schwarz, V. Veneziani, G. Orefice, R. Zandonai, A. Perlasca, S. Blumenthal). Her work on historical sources in Italian ethnomusicology has produced publications and studies on the subject (F.B. Pratella, P. Agostini Bitelli and G. Sàdero) as well as a fieldwork study: *Transmission and Transformation – An Ethno-Musicological Study of the Italian-Canadian Community of Toronto* (ICAMus, 2018/2019). She has published essays and articles in specialised journals, collected volumes and conference proceedings (among the most recent publications: *«Per amar molto ed esser poco amata». Omaggio a Gaspara Stampa* (Dell’Orso, 2025); *Vittore Veneziani, il compositore* (Conservatoire of Ferrara, 2025); *La musica a Milano nel primo Novecento: intorno a Giacomo Orefice* (LIM, 2026)). She is registered with SIAE (DOR and OLAF); some of her texts have been set to music by A. Federici and performed live in productions curated by D. Meacci. Former contract lecturer at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and teacher within the Italian school system (A030, A029, A053), since the academic year 2021/2022 she has been a lecturer in the AFAM system, and since 2024 she has held a permanent position in Music History for Music Education at the Rossini Conservatoire of Pesaro.