Alexandra Amati

ALEXANDRA AMATI, PhD ’95, music, is an Italian musicologist specializing in the Italian Renaissance, especially the madrigal, Italian opera, feminist criticism, Romantic piano music, and German Baroque choral music. She received a laurea (AB/AM equivalent) in Slavic studies and philology from the University of Pisa in Italy. Amati is a professor emerita of music at the University of San Francisco and teaches at the Osher Institute for Lifelong Learning at San Francisco State and UC Berkeley. She has also taught at UC Davis and in the graduate program of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. She currently teaches both as professor and TA at Harvard College and Harvard Extension School, and is affiliated with Lowell House (having been a resident tutor in Quincy house as a graduate student). 

Amati is a professional program annotator and pre-concert lecturer, and has collaborated or currently collaborated with many organizations, including Masterworks Chorale in Boston, the San Francisco Symphony, the San Francisco Opera, the San Francisco Bach Choir, the Harvard University Choir, among others. She has served on several committees of the American Musicological Society, on several boards of directors, and is a past president of the Harvard Club of San Francisco. She is currently the president of the Harvard University Choir SIG and serves on the board of the Harvard Radcliffe Collegium Musicum Foundation.