Dr Metoda Kokole graduated in 1990 at the University of Ljubljana in musicology and French language with literature and completed her PhD in musicology in 1998. From 1992 she has been employed as a researcher at the ZRC SAZU. In 1994 and 1995 spent a couple of munth on research grants in London and in Paris. In 2001 she was awarded a special prize, the Golden Sign of the ZRC.
Since 2003 she has been collaborating in postdoctoral programmes at the Universities of Ljubljana and Nova Gorica (between 2014 and 2021 the Postgraduate School ZRC SAZU). From 1999 to 2010 she led the series of Historical seminar at the ZRC SAZU, between 2000 and 2022 she was member of the Scientific Council of the Institute of Musicology and between 2004 and 2022 Head of the Institute.
She has been researching the musical heritage of Slovenia from the late sixteenth to the early nineteenth centuries. She has specialized in the local dissemination of Italian music and is working on the documents concerning Italian operatic productions, mobility of singers, impresarios etc. from Italy through the Slovenian lands towards Austria and Germany. She had authored numerous articles and chapters in collective volumes, has published seven critical early music editions in the series Monumenta artis musicae Sloveniae. Her book on the early Baroque composer Isaac Posch was published in Slovenian and English languages. From 2008 she is the General Editor of the series Monumenta artis musicae Sloveniae and its sub-series Supplementa. She was a project leader of five national research projects (2000–2012) and principal investigator of the HERA MusMig project (2013–2016). Since 2018 she is the leader of the national research programme Researches in the History of Music in Slovenia (ARRS, P6-0004). She is also the leader of the Slovenian partner group in the European COST EarlyMuse project (2022–2026). Her future research goal is to supplement knowledge about musical and theatrical life and repertoire in the 18th century in the territory of the present-day Slovenia and beyond.
Monographs & critical editions:
- Kokole, M. (2016). Monumenta artis musicae Sloveniae, vol. 60: Giuseppe Arene: Achille in Sciro (1738). Arije Ahila in Dejdameje = Arias for Achilles and Deidamia. Založba ZRC, ZRC SAZU. http://bit.ly/32MZ73H
- Kokole, M. (2012). Monumenta artis musicae Sloveniae, vol. 57: Glasba v Kopru v 17. stoletju = Music in seventeenth-century Koper. Založba ZRC, ZRC SAZU. http://bit.ly/2Ih4UFA
- Kokole, M. (2001–2003). Monumenta artis musicae Sloveniae, vol. 40 and vol. 42: Gabriello Puliti: Sacri concentus, Pungenti dardi spirituali, Lilila convallium, Sacri accenti. Založba ZRC, ZRC SAZU. http://bit.ly/38eTBIl
- Kokole, M. (1996–2001). Monumenta artis musicae Sloveniae, vols. 30, 31, 35: Isaac Posch, Musicalische Ehrenfreudt, Musicalische Tafelfreudt, Harmonia concertans [=opera omnia]. Založba ZRC, ZRC SAZU. http://bit.ly/3akDOcv
Kokole, M. (2009). Isaac Posch “diditus Eois Hesperiisque plagis – praised in the lands of Dawn and Sunset”. P. Lang. https://www.peterlang.com/view/title/51316
5 najpomembnejših razprav v zadnjih 5 letih:
- Kokole, M. (2023). Užaljena gospa Artemizija ali Kristus nam je danes rojen: celjske kontrafakture operne arije Giuseppa Gazzanige. De musica disserenda, 19 (2), 37–58. https://doi.org/10.3986/dmd19.1.02
- Kokole, M. (2021). The Graz 1740 pasticcio Amor, odio e pentimento. A special case or Mingottis's common practice?. V: B. Over and G. zur Nieden (eds.), Operatic pasticcios in 18th-Century Europe. Contexts, materials and aesthetics (pp. 507–525). Transcript. 10.14361/9783839448854-024
- Kokole, M. (2020). The Ljubljana singer and virtuoso pianist Francesco Pollini and the two key women of his youth. V: I. Cavallini, J. Guzy-Pasiakowa, H. White (eds.), Glazba, migracije i europska kultura: svečani zbornik za Vjeru Katalinić = Music, migration and European culture : essays in honour of Vjera Katalinić (pp. 501–518) Hrvatsko muzikološko društvo. https://bit.ly/35pMj93
- Kokole, M. (2020) Plesi za koroške in kranjske veljake ob izbruhu tridesetletne vojne. Isaac Posch in njegovo Veselo glasbeno slavje (1618). V: V. Kočevar in G. Cerkovnik (eds.), Tridesetletna vojna in Slovenci. Evropski konflikt in slovenski prostor v prvi polovici 17. stoletja (pp. 451–472). Založba ZRC, ZRC SAZU. https://doi.org/10.3986/9789610504979
- A new ecosystem of early music studies (EarlyMuse) (international project • September 21, 2022 - September 20, 2026)
- The mobility of musicians and musical idioms in the Slovene Lands from the 16th until 19th century (fundamental research project • January 1, 2000 - June 30, 2002)
- Repertoire analysis of old music manuscripts in Slovenia (fundamental research project • July 1, 1998 - June 30, 2003)
- Old traditions in new vestments: Musical and textual reworkings in the performing practices of liturgical music (fundamental research project • July 1, 2019 - June 30, 2023)
- Musical sources of the 16th to the 18th centuries with special attention to the archives in the Slovenian region of Primorska (fundamental research project • July 1, 2001 - June 30, 2004)
- The music of religious orders on the Slovenian territory from the 16th century to their abolition (fundamental research project • January 1, 2003 - December 31, 2005)
- Ecclesiastical music funds of the Slovenian coastal towns (fundamental research project • July 1, 2007 - June 30, 2010)
- Aesthetics behind the concert life of Ljubljana in the 19th century: 1794-1872 (fundamental research project • May 1, 2009 - April 30, 2012)
- Didactic manuals and music education in the 18th century (fundamental research project • May 1, 2009 - April 30, 2012)
- Slovenian musical works after 1918 (fundamental research project • July 1, 2011 - June 30, 2014)
- Researches in the history of music in Slovenia (research programme • January 1, 2009 - December 31, 2014)
- Music migrations in the early modern age: the meeting of the European East, West and South (September 1, 2013 - August 31, 2016)
- French Governmental Grant, University of Udine, Gemona (July–August 2002)
- European Science Foundation Grant, Oxford University (2000)
- French Governmental Grant, Parie and Versailles (September 1995)
- TEMPUS Moblity, Royal Holloway College University of London (May–July 1994)
- The ZRC "Golden Sign" Award (2001)
- Dr Franc Munda Grant for Students in the Republic of Slovenia (academic year 1991/92)