Giovanni Giuriati, degree in Lettere at the Università di Roma "La Sapienza" and Ph.D. in ethnomusicology at the University of Maryland. Professor of History of Music at the Conservatory from 1988 to 1993, he is currently full professor in Ethnomusicology at the Università di Roma "La Sapienza". President of the Corso di laurea magistrale in Musicology from 2010, he was Coordinator of the doctoral program in Storia e analisi delle culture musicali from 2005 to 2011. Director of the Intercultural Institute for Comparative Music Studies, Fondazione Giorgio Cini in Venice, he was member of the Scientific committee of the Archivi di etnomusicologia of the Accademia Nazionale di S.Cecilia and, from 2005 to 2008 President of the European Seminar in Ethnomusicology.
He has carried research in Cambodia, Bali, Indonesia and on Italian folk music with special referente to the region around Naples with funds from the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Ministry of Education and Research (MIUR), Ministry of Foreign affairs (MAE). Other research interest are the instrumental music and the relationship between music and feast in Campania. Since 2012 he is national coordinator of a three-year project PRIN on: 'Process of change in music of oral tradition from 1900 until present day. Archive research and inquiry on contemporaneity' with local units of the Universities of Bologna, Firenze, Palermo, Roma "Sapienza", Roma "Tor Vergata", and Torino.