Enrico Careri took his first degree in 1983 at the Faculty of Arts of the University La Sapienza of Rome and later in 1990 a Ph.D in musicology at the Music Department of the University of Liverpool. He published several essays and books on Italian Eighteenth Century Music (Geminiani, Vivaldi, Corelli, Valentini, Bonporti) and also on Schubert and the expressive use of silence in the Classic Era. He edited Vivaldi’s La verità in cimento, Geminiani’s Inchanted Forrest, Bonporti’s three sets of trio sonatas, and he is also the author of two catalogues, the Catalogo del fondo musicale Chiti-Corsini della Biblioteca Corsiniana di Roma and the Catalogo dei manoscritti musicali dell'Archivio Generale delle Scuole Pie a San Pantaleo. He wrote articles for the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, the New Grove Dictionary of Opera and Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart. He is member of the advisory committee of Centro Studi Luigi Boccherini, Giovanni Battista Pergolesi Critical Edition, and Francesco Geminiani Opera Omnia, and he collaborates with the Istituto Antonio Vivaldi to the critical edition of Vivaldi’s Operas. From 2010 he is the Director of the Centro Studi Canzone Napoletana.