M° Raffaele Deluca

an Italian national, was born in Milan (I) on January 8, 1972. He graduated in pianoforte at the Conservatory of Music in Mantua (I), and graduated in Literature, with musicological specialization, at the University of Milan. He also obtained, with honours, in 2000, the Magisterium in Sacred Music and Gregorian chant at the Pontifical Ambrosian Institute of Sacred Music in Milan, with a thesis on the origin of polyphony in the Carolingian period. He is a musicologist and a choral conductor. He teaches History of Music at the Conservatory of Rovigo (I). He has been teaching in past years at the Musical Bibliography at the Conservatory of Music of Padua and has been teaching and was the librarian at the Conservatory of Music of Cuneo.

He has collaborated and continues to collaborate with important Italian historical and musical libraries, particularly the scientific cataloguing of ancient and historical musical sources, coordinating numerous projects as scientific director. He collaborates with the Archives and Library of the Philharmonic Academy of Bologna and the Library of the Conservatory "Gioacchino Rossini" of Bologna. He also collaborated for several years with the Library of the Conservatory "Giuseppe Verdi" in Milan. 

He has designed, taking care of the project and of its structure, various exhibitions. As a choir director, in addition to the weekly liturgical musical activity and to concerts, he designed and created musical projects, and enabled international collaborations with choirs and musicologists from Italy, Germany and the United States. He is a member of the Governing Council, and creator of the Research Center on Sacred Music "Tomo Quarto", founded in 2012 by the Music conservatories of Bologna and Milan.