Christine Jeanneret

Short presentation

I am a musicologist and currently work as associate professor at the Centre for Privacy Studies at the University of Copenhagen and Rosenborg Castle as the PI of SOUND, an innovative research project aiming at listening, hearing and reconstructing the soundscapes of the Danish court. How did the past sound and how can we reconstruct it with immersive dynamic exhibitions? My research focuses on early modern music, sound and court studies, with a particular interest for performance and staging, the body on stage, cultural exchanges and gender studies.
I have held several positions and fellowships in Europe (Switzerland, Italy, Denmark, and France) and at leading institutions in the United States (Yale and Columbia Universities). These have given me the opportunity to develop new directions in research and to build a strong international network.
In my research and teaching, I strive not only to connect musical aesthetics and artistic practices to broader socio-cultural and political contexts, but also to connect historical research with the present, by focusing on topics that are relevant today, such as gender, migration, or contemporary opera stagings. My research has a wide impact, notably through my collaboration with several early music ensembles, and more recently with museums, in order to convey and share research in the unique forms of performance and exhibitions.

CV

Education

• 2005 PhD in Musicology, summa cum laude: L’Œuvre en filigrane: une étude philologique des manuscrits de musique pour clavier à Rome au XVIIe siècle. University of Geneva. Advisor: Etienne Darbellay, President: Charles Genequand. Jurors: Luigi Ferdinando Tagliavini, Arnaldo Morelli, Brenno Boccadoro
• 1999 Librarian diploma BBS (Swiss Libraries and Librarians Association)
• 1997 MA in Musicology, BA in English Language and Literature, BA in Music (University of Geneva). Master’s thesis: L’Autre de la musique: une étude des influences extra-européennes dans trois oeuvres contemporaines: Messiaen Sept Haïkaï, Cage Sonatas and Interludes et Ligeti Automne à Varsovie
• 1996 Diplomas in Music Education I and II (Conservatoire Supérieur de Musique, Geneva)

Academic Positions and Fellowships

• 2020-2023 Associate professor, Centre for Privacy Studies, University of Copenhagen, PI of SOUND: Soundscapes of Rosenborg, Danske Frie Forskningsfond Projekt 2
• 2018-2020 HM Queen Margrethe II’s Distinguished Fellow of the Carlsberg Foundation for French Performing Arts in Denmark during the Eighteenth-Century: The French Myth in Migration, The National Museum of History, Frederiksborg Slot and Centre de recherche du château de Versailles
• Associate researcher, Centre de Recherche du Château de Versailles for the project Identités curiales et le mythe de Versailles en Europe: perceptions, adhésions et rejets (XVIIIe–XIXe siècles)
• 2018- Associate researcher, Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles
• 2014-2018 Assistant Professor, Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, Univ. of Copenhagen
• 2016-2020 Researcher in the ERC Consolidator Grant PERFORMART: Promoting, Patronising, and Practising the Arts in Roman Aristocratic Families (1644-1740). The Contribution of Roman Family Archives to the History of Performing Arts, PI Anne-Madeleine Goulet, Centre National de la Rercherche Scientifique
• 2016-2017 Project leader of Shared Histories of Italian Opera in the Nordic Countries: Migration, Cultural Transfer and Urban Spaces (18th-19th Centuries), funded by the Nordic Research Councils in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NOS-HS)
• 2015-2016 Fellow of the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies at Columbia University, New York (USA) for the project The Body’s Eloquence: Moving, Acting, and Dancing on the Operatic Stage in Florence (1630‐1700)
• 2011-2014 Assistant Professor, Department of Musicology, University of Geneva
• 2011-2014 National Endowment for the Humanities (USA), Scholarly Editions and Translations, three-year grant for The Marenzio Project, dir. Mauro Calcagno (Stony Brook University) and Giuseppe Gerbino (Columbia University)
• 2009-2011 Postdoc fellowship for Advanced Researcher, The Marenzio Project, Rome, (Swiss National Science Foundation)
• 2009 Postdoc Associate Researcher, Yale Baroque Opera Project, dir. Ellen Rosand, Department of Music, Yale University, New Haven CT, funded by a Distinguished Achievement Award, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
• 2009 Edith and Richard French Visiting fellowship, Beinecke Rare Books and Manuscripts, Yale University for: The Osborn Organ Book

• 2006-2008 Postdoc Researcher for Trasmissione e recenzione di cantate romane attraverso l’Europa del Seicento dir. Arnaldo Morelli (Università dell’Aquilà), PRIN Francesco Buti : Drammaturgia musicale e politica culturale, dir. Francesco Luisi
• 2006-2008 Assistant Professor, Department of Musicology, University of Geneva
• 2005-2006 Assistant, Department of Musicology, University of Geneva
• 2004-2005 Research Assistant (Swiss National Science Foundation) for the doctoral work: Les manuscrits de musique pour clavier au XVIIe siècle: une étude de sources, Rome
• 2003-2005 Member of the Swiss Institute in Rome
• 2001-2004 Fellowship for PhD Candidate (Swiss National Science Foundation) for the project: Musique baroque à Rome: étude historique, documentaire et philologique des sources
• 1999-2003 Assistant, Department of Musicology, University of Geneva
• 1992-1999 Librarian, Department of Musicology, University of Geneva
• 1995-1999 Librarian, Superior Conservatory of Music, Geneva

Knowledge of languages

• French - mother tongue
• English, Italian, German, Danish - fluent
• Spanish, Latin, Ancient Greek - basic knowledge