Cristina Alís Raurich

Portative organ, Manuscript to Performance, Pythagorean Tuning

Cristina Alís Raurich is distinguished figure in the realm of medieval keyboards. (organetto, clavicimbalum, and medieval organ). She also is musicologist specializing in music of the Middle Ages and the early Renaissance. As performer she is part of several ensembles such as La Douce Semblance, Vetera, and Ipsum Femina, with which she plays around Europe and North America, records for the TV and radio, and records several CDs.

As a pedagogue she is a faculty member at the Centre International de Musiques Médiévales. Du ciel aux marges; the Université Paul Valéry de Montpellier. She also directs the festival “Mirabilia, Semana Medieval de la Catedral de Cuenca”.

In 2024 she defended her doctoral thesis about a recently discovered Aquitanian Gradual-Troper (University of Würzburg, Germany and the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, Switzerland). She has been invited to present her research on the earliest keyboard intabulations at the musicology seminaries of the Oxford University convened by Margaret Bent. Her publications include an article on the so-called Robertsbridge Codex (forthcoming), an entry in the Encyclopaedia of tablature (forthcoming), and a book chapter about music and liturgy in Carolingian times Carlomagno y sus horizontes hispanos (2021). 

Currently she is assistant researcher at the Instituto Complutense de Ciencias Musicales (ICCMU) as part of the European-funded project REPERTORIUM on the application of IA on the study of gregorian chant. She also collaborates with the MMMO (Medieval Music Manuscripts Online Database) and with the Corpus Monodicum (Die einstimmige Musik des lateinischen Mittelalters).

She collaborates with the historical organ builder Walter Chinaglia on the reconstruction of medieval organs, obtaining in 2014 a reconstruction of a 13th c. portative organ developed through the study of written and iconographic sources, the first of its kind.

Cristina Alís Raurich on Academia.edu