Dr. María Gembero Ustarroz
Musicologist and native of Pamplona, she is since 2007 Senior Scientist in Musicology at the Higher committee for Scientific Research (CSIC), Milá y Fontanals Institution in Barcelona. She holds a degree in History from the University of Navarra (1981) and a PhD in Musicology from the University of Granada (1991), in both cases with an Extraordinary award , and a Professional Piano degree scroll from the Pablo Sarasate Conservatory of Pamplona (1981) with an award Fin de degree program. She taught at the Pablo Sarasate Conservatory of Pamplona (1982-1991) and at the University of Granada (1991-2007), collaborated in doctorate and Master's Degree programs at the universities of Salamanca and Valladolid, and since 2010 she collaborates in a Master's Degree at the University of Barcelona. She has directed seven doctoral thesis and other supervised research works.
Her research focuses on Spanish music (16th-19th centuries), the musical relations between Spain and Latin America during the viceroyalty, the Spanish musical heritage and the musical history of Navarra. He has directed three research and development projects of the National research Plan and the group Mecenazgo musical en Andalucía y su proyección en América, funded by the board of Andalusia. He is currently participating in the projects Libros de polifonía hispana (1450-1650): Systematic Catalog and historical-cultural context and Traditional Music Fund CSIC-IMF.. He has participated in numerous national and international congresses, has done intensive research at the file General de Indias in Seville and has carried out research stays at the universities of Cambridge and Chicago.
His publications include: La música en la Catedral de Pamplona durante el siglo XVIII, 2 vols.; the edition of the Concierto para core topic y Orquesta (1767) by Manuel Narro (the first keyboard concerto known so far in the Hispanic world); "El patrimonio musical español y su management"; and numerous contributions in prestigious national and international journals and editorials on theatrical music, musical patronage of the nobility, musical repertoire in female convents and parishes, music in colonial Spanish America and Napoleonic Spain. She is editor of the Issue programs of study on music and musicians of Navarra, and co-editor of La música y el Atlántico. Relaciones musicales entre España y Latinoamérica and the interdisciplinary Issue Desvelando el cuerpo: perspectivas desde las ciencias sociales y humanas. In 2012 she coordinated (with Emilio Ros-Fábregas) the dossier Musical 'Otherness' in the Iberian World, 1500-1800 for the journal Early Music (Oxford University Press).
She is coordinator of the research group Música, patrimonio y sociedad, recognized by the Generalitat de Catalunya, and has recently been appointed director of the Colección Música de publishing house CSIC, which includes the series Monumentos de la Música Española.