Franco Sciannameo is professor and associate dean at the College of Fine Arts, Carnegie Mellon University, in Pittsburgh, PA. He is the author of Nino Rota, Federico Fellini and the Making of an Italian Cinematic Folk Opera: Amarcord (2005); Giuseppe Mazzini's Philosophy of Music: Envisioning a Social Opera (1836) (2005); Nino Rota's The Godfather Trilogy (2010), and Phil Trajetta (1777-1854), Patriot, Musician, Immigrant (2010).

Alessandra Carlotta Pellegrini, one of Italy's foremost musicologists and twentieth-century music specialists, has written on Casella, Nono, Petrassi, and Scelsi among others. She has edited both Italian and French editions of Giacinto Scelsi's autobiography Il sogno 101 (both published in 2010). Pellegrini is the scientific director of Fondazione Isabella Scelsi in Rome.