Edoardo Marcarini

Edoardo Marcarini is a PhD candidate in the Music Department of SOAS University of London with a background in ethnomusicology and popular music performance. His research, titled "I Want to Remain Persian: Music, Memory and Identity Among Iranian Jews in Israel", explores the current musical repertoires of Iranian Jews in Israel, and their relevance in the performance of Iranianness and the expression of identity, memory and nostalgia. For this research Edoardo holds a CHASE AHRC Studentship and works alongside the Jewish Music Institute and the British Library.  Edoardo holds a BMus in Popular Music Performance and has performed for over a decade as a professional bass and double bass player, playing and recording alongside artists such as Pinguini Tattici Nucleari, Madame, Hopscotch, Alide and more. He later obtained a MMus in Ethnomusicology at SOAS deepening his knowledge of Persian and Middle Eastern music's while studying santur with Dr. Saeid Kordmafi. Edoardo's professional experience includes podcasting, music journalism and music teaching. He also worked as an audio cataloguer of world and traditional music in the sound archive of the British Library during the project "Unlocking our Sound Heritage", which led to the preservation, digitisation, enhancement and dissemination of hundreds of thousands of sound recordings. On behalf of the project, he presented a paper titled "Unlocking Our Sound Heritage: New Horizons for Cataloguing and Rights Clearance Practices in Sound Archives" at the British Forum for Ethnomusicology Annual Conference (2022).

Ethnomusicology, music pedagogy, performance studies, diaspora studies, memory studies, archival studies.