Mauro Bucarelli is Artistic Coordinator at Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome, where he has worked closely with renowned conductors including Daniele Gatti, Christian Thielemann, Myung-Whun Chung, Antonio Pappano, Daniel Harding, and many others. A musicologist, he studied piano, composition, arts and humanities in Rome and has also taught music history.

His professional experience includes working at the Treccani Encyclopaedia and serving as a consultant for RAI Radio 3’s classical music channel. He has also carried out research for the Fondazione Rossini in Pesaro, where he worked with Bruno Cagli, and for the University of Chicago, collaborating with Philip Gossett on the new critical edition of Rossini’s complete works.

His expertise also extends to musical iconography, an area in which he has contributed to numerous exhibitions. Among his projects, he curated the transformation of Rossini’s birthplace in Pesaro into a museum. Together with designer Pier Luigi Pizzi, he was also scientific coordinator of the exhibition Rossini 1792–1992, held in Pesaro with the support of the European Cultural Commission.

A prolific writer and essayist, Bucarelli has written programme notes for major opera companies, including the Metropolitan Opera in New York and La Scala, as well as for leading record labels.