Research

The performer
as co-author.

Co-creation practices, theoretical and methodological approaches in contemporary music.

Who is legitimised as a creative subject in music?

My research follows how musical ideas develop through collaboration between composers and performers, a perspective that also makes it possible to reconsider the performer’s role, focusing on their knowledge, exploratory practices and creative contributions that become part of the compositional process.

Doctoral research · 2025–2028
Conservatorio “L. D’Annunzio”, Pescara
Supervisor: Prof. Laura Zattra

Publications

2026

A Shared Lexicon for Musical Co-creation: Towards an Authorship Attribution Model for Composer–Performer Collaboration

Alberto Michele Cavallaro

SPaMEC 2026: Sound Crossing Communities – Atti della conferenza, pp. 99–103.

2025

Essay in Gradus. Passaggi per il nuovo

Alberto Michele Cavallaro

Edited by Florian Borchmeyer. Nuova Editrice Berti, pp. 143–146. In Italian.