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María Gembero-Ustárroz (b. Pamplona, Spain) is from 2007 Permanent Researcher in
Musicology at the CSIC (Spanish National Research Council), Institució Milà i Fontanals, in
Barcelona. In 1981 she earned the B.A. in History with honors (“Premio Extraordinario de
Licenciatura”) at the Universidad de Navarra, and the B.M. in Piano with honors (“Premio Fin de
Carrera de Piano”) at the Conservatorio Pablo Sarasate in Pamplona. She became Doctor in
Musicology (1991) with honors (“Premio Extraordinario de Doctorado”) at the Universidad de
Granada. She taught piano and music history at the Pamplona Conservatory (1982-1991) and
musicology at the Universidad de Granada (1991-2007), where she was coordinator of the “Historia
y Ciencias de la Música” Degree (2006-2007). She has directed seven doctoral dissertations and
numerous student research projects, she has been invited professor for the Ph.D. and Master
programmes at the Universities of Salamanca and Valladolid, and from 2010 she teaches in a
Master programme at the Universitat de Barcelona.
The research of María Gembero-Ustárroz focuses on Spanish music history (16th-19th
centuries), musical relationships between Spain and viceregal Latin America, Spanish musical
heritage, and history of music in Navarre. She directed three R+D projects sponsored by the
Spanish National Plan of Research. Between 1997 and 2007, she directed at the Universidad de
Granada the research group Mecenazgo musical en Andalucía y su proyección en América,
sponsored by the Junta de Andalucía (Andalusian Autonomous Government). She currently
participates in the projects Libros de polifonía hispana (1450-1650): catálogo sistemático y
contexto
histórico-cultural,
and
Fondo
de
Música
Tradicional
CSIC-IMF
(<http://www.musicatradicional.eu>). She has presented papers in congresses, courses and lectures
series celebrated in Spain, Austria, Belgium, Bolivia, Chile, France, Japan, Peru, Poland, United
Kingdom, and United States of America. She has developed intensive research at the Archivo
General de Indias in Seville and has spent research stays at the University of Cambridge and the
University of Chicago.
The publications of María Gembero-Ustárroz include: La música en la Catedral de
Pamplona durante el siglo XVIII, 2 vols. (1995); a critical edition and study of the 1767 Manuel
Narro’s Concert for Harpsichord and Orchestra (earliest known Spanish keyboard concerto); the
article “El patrimonio musical español y su gestión”; and many contributions on theater music,
music patronage of the nobility, music in convents and parishes, music in colonial Latin America,
and music in Spain during the Napoleonic era. She has published in journals such as Early Music,
Latin American Music Review, Mondes Hispanophones, Revista de Musicología, Nassarre,
Cuadernos de Música Iberoamericana and Príncipe de Viana, and in books edited by Cambridge
University Press and Ashgate, among other publishers. She is editor of the volume Estudios sobre
música y músicos de Navarra (2006), and coeditor of the books La música y el Atlántico.
Relaciones musicales entre España y Latinoamérica (2007), and the interdisciplinary volume
Desvelando el cuerpo: perspectivas desde las ciencias sociales y humanas (2010). In 2012, she
coordinated (with Emilio Ros-Fábregas) the monographic dossier Musical ‘Otherness’ in the
Iberian World, 1500-1800 for the journal Early Music (Oxford University Press).
María Gembero-Ustárroz is currently coordinator of the Research Group Music, heritage,
and society, recognized by the Generalitat de Catalunya (Autonomous Government of Catalonia),
and has recently been named director of the collection Música of the Editorial CSIC, which includes
the series Monumentos de la Música Española.
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