
Curriculum Vitae
Irene Brigitte Puzzo
Irene Brigitte Puzzo (born in Trieste in 1989) completed her Master's Degree in Renaissance and Baroque Singing at the 'Arrigo
Pedrollo' Conservatory in Vicenza with the thesis titled "Lágrimas de saudade: Contribution for a Contextualized Interpretation,"
supervised by Stefano Lorenzetti and Hugo Soeiro Sanches. Currently, she is enrolled in the Artistic Studies PhD program at
the University of Coimbra, focusing on 16th-century sung poetry in Portuguese under the guidance of José Abreu and Paulo
Estudante. She is a collaborating researcher PhD Students of CECH (Centre for Classical and Humanistic Studies), involved
in the musicological project "Worlds and Collections" (Mundos e Fundos). She also collaborates with CESEM - P PORTO as singer
in a research project dedicated to Portuguese Renaissance music lead by Pedro Sousa Silva. Irene Brigitte Puzzo started her
discographic activity in 2008, participating in various projects. In the realm of Early Music, her discography includes two
albums with Arte Minima Ensemble, "Francisco de Santa Maria: Missa 'O Beata Maria'" (Pan Classics, 2023) and "In splendoribus"
(2021), the album "Royne des fleurs" with the ensemble Sesquialtera commissioned for the Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference
2021, and the critical edition of Du Fay's medieval mass "Se la face ay pale," directed by Claudia Caffagni (2017, Amadeus).
Irene Brigitte Puzzo has expanded her Early Music studies by participating in numerous masterclasses led by notable figures
such as Claudia Caffagni, Gemma Bertagnolli, Christian Hilz, Maria Cristina Kiehr, Emma Kirkby, Roberta Invernizzi, and Lia
Serafini, among others. She has performed as both a soloist and chorister in prestigious European venues, including Milan's
Cathedral, the Olympic Theatre of Vicenza, Teatro Dal Verme, and Casa da Música of Porto.
Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- Irene Brigitte Puzzo
Citation names
- Puzzo, Irene Brigitte
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- CC16-5BDC-4AF2
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-1089-4912
Email addresses
- irenebrigitte.puzzo@gmail.com (Professional)
Telephones
- Mobile phone
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- 915729744 (Personal)
Websites
- https://irenebrigitte.com (Professional)
Languages
Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
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Italian (Mother tongue) | |||||
Portuguese | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Upper intermediate (B2) | Advanced (C1) | |
English | Intermediate (B1) | Advanced (C1) | Intermediate (B1) | Intermediate (B1) | |
Spanish; Castilian | Beginner (A1) | Intermediate (B1) | Beginner (A1) | Beginner (A1) | |
French | Elementary (A2) | Intermediate (B1) | Elementary (A2) | Elementary (A2) |
Education
Degree | Classification | |
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2028
Ongoing
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Estudos Artísticos [PhD in Artistic Studies] (Doutoramento)
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
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2023/06
Concluded
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Estudos Avançados em Polifonia [Advanced Studies in Polyphony] (Especialização pós-licenciatura)
Instituto Politecnico do Porto Escola Superior de Música e das Artes do Espectáculo, Portugal
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2023/05/22 - 2023/05/26
Concluded
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Curso de Paleografia para Estudos do Renascimento e Idade Moderna (séc. XV-XVIII), (Outros)
Centro de Estudos Clássicos e Humanísticos, Portugal
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2023 - 2023
Concluded
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Variação e mudança do Português [Variation and Mutation in Portuguese] (Curso de doutoramento (conclusão de unidades curriculares))
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
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17/20 |
2023 - 2023
Attended
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Projeto de Tese [Thesis Project] (Curso de doutoramento (conclusão de unidades curriculares))
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
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18/19 |
2022 - 2023
Attended
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Edição crítica (Musica) [Critical edition - Music] (Curso de doutoramento (conclusão de unidades curriculares))
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
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18/20 |
2022 - 2023
Attended
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Metodologias de Investigação em Estudos Artísticos [Research methodologies in Artistic Studies] (Curso de doutoramento (conclusão
de unidades curriculares))
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
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19/20 |
2022 - 2023
Attended
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Hibridismo e transdisciplinaridade nas Artes (Curso de doutoramento (conclusão de unidades curriculares))
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
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19/20 |
2018/10 - 2022/02/14
Concluded
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Canto Rinascimentale e Barocco [Renaissance and Baroque Singing] (Master)
Major in Singing
Conservatorio di Musica di Vicenza Arrigo Pedrollo, Italy
"Lágrimas de saudade. Contributo per un'interpretazione contestualizzata" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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110 cum laude |
2019/02
Concluded
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Canto Rinascimentale e Barocco [Renaissance and Baroque Singing] (Bachelor)
Major in Singing
Conservatorio di Musica di Vicenza Arrigo Pedrollo, Italy
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109/110 |
Projects
Grant
Designation | Funders | |
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2023/06/11 - 2023/06/17 | SHORT-TERM SCIENTIFIC MISSION GRANT APPLICATION (WG 1 Education)
E-COST-GRANT-CA21161-2e16f637
PhD Student Fellow
EarlyMuse COST-Action, Belgium
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Concluded
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Other
Designation | Funders | |
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2022 - Current | CA21161 - A new ecosystem of early music studies
WG Member CA21161 [WG4]
EarlyMuse COST-Action, Belgium
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Ongoing
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Outputs
Publications
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Artistic / Performance
Audio recording |
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Musical performance |
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Activities
Oral presentation
Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
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2024/02/16 | Ao som da nossa melodia. A subtil fronteira entre idioma e música. | Mundos Possíveis 2024 1º sessão
University of Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
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2023/12/12 | 'Al suono della nostra melodia'. Il sottile confine tra lingua e musica. | L'édition des corpus chantés du Moyen Âge et de la Renaissance, hier aujourd'hui et demain
University of Poitiers (Poitiers, France)
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2023/06/30 | Praticar a linguagem dos cancioneiros, a partir das concordâncias do F-peb Masson 56 | Mundos Possíveis 6ª sessão
University of Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
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2023/06/02 | 'Ao som da nossa melodia': uma primeira reflexão sobre o português do Cancioneiro F-Peb Masson MM 54 | Mundos Possíveis 5ª sessão
University of Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
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2023/03/03 | Um reflexo do Cancioneiro Musical de Paris no espelho do príncipe cristão de Monzón | Mundos Possíveis 2ª sessão
University of Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
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2022/12/02 | Questões sobre uma interpretação contextualizada do Cancioneiro de Paris | Jornadas Mundos e Fundos 2022
University of Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
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