Alexandra Nigito graduated in Organ at the Conservatorio ‘P. Martini’ in Bologna with Lorenzo Ghielmi (1996) and in Harpsichord at the Conservatorio ‘B. Marcello’ in Venice with Andrea Marcon (2003). Her interests in historical performance and musical philology led her to specialize at the Civica Scuola di Musica in Milan with Lorenzo Ghielmi and Laura Alvini, and at the Schola Canto­rumBasiliensis (Hochschule für Alte Musik, Basel) with Jean-Claude Zehnder, Andrea Marcon, Jörg-Andreas Bötticher, Jesper Christensen and Rudolf Lutz, where she graduated in Organ and Historical Keyboards (2001). She also studied singingi. She holds a position of organist in Switzerland, performs concerts as a soloist and in ensembles, and has recorded CD’s for Brilliant Classics, Tactus, Arcophone and Swiss Radio DRS2.

In counterpart to her practical studies, she has pursued theoretical studies, graduating 2000 summa cum laude from the Musicology Department in Cremona (University of Pavia) with Prof. Albert Dunning. In 2008 she obtained a PhD from the University of Zurich with the dissertation Alla corte dei Pamphilj: la musica a Roma tra Sei- e Settecento, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Laurenz Lütteken. She was a member of the Swiss Institute in Rome (2006-2007) and was awarded the Schweizerischer Nationalfondsscholarship (2006-2008). She has collaborated on the project Musikalische Profilbildung des römischen Adels im 17. Jahrhundert: Lorenzo Onofrio Colonna und Benedetto Pamphilj with Prof. Dr. Klaus Pietschmann and Prof. Dr. Laurenz Lütteken (Universities of Bern and Zurich), funded by the Schweizer National Fonds (2008-2010).

Publications

• ‘L’organo della Cappella del Voto del Duomo di Siena’, in In organo pleno. Festschrift für Jean-Claude Zehnder zum 65. Geburtstag, hsg. von Luigi Colla­rile und Alexandra Nigito, Bern etc., Lang 2007(Publikationen der Schweizerischen Musikforschenden Gesellschaft, Serie II, Bd. 48)
•  ‘La musica alla corte del cardinal Benedetto Pamphilj: nuovi documenti d’archivio’, in Georg Friedrich Händel in Rom. Bericht über die Internationale Tagung, Deutsches Historisches Institut in Rom 17.-20 Oktober 2007, hrsg. von Sabine Ehrmann-Herfort und Matthias Schnettger (Analecta musicologica, 2011)
• Alla corte dei Pamphilj: la musica a Roma tra Sei- e Settecento, Dissertation, Universität Zürich 2008
• Entry ‘Rom’, in Händel Lexicon, ed. by H.J. Marx, Laaber, Laaber-Verlag 2010
• Le conversazioni in musica: Carlo Francesco Cesarini, virtuoso di Sua Eccellenza Padrone, in The Pamphilj and the Arts: Patronage and Consumption in Baroque Rome, ed. by Stephanie C. Leone, Chestnut Hill, McMullen Museum of Art 2011
• Le cantate di Bernardo Pasquini. Edizione critica, 2 vol., Turnhout, Brepols 2012
• ‘Catalogo delle cantate di Bernardo Pasquini’, in Atti. Pasquini Symposium 2010. Convegno Internazionale. Smarano, 27-30 Maggio 2010, a cura di Armando Carideo, Trento, Giunta: Assessorato alla Cultura 2012 (Quaderni Trentino Cultura, 17)
• La musica alla corte del principe Giovanni Battista Pamphilj (1648-1709), Kassel, Merseburger 2013
• ‘Le lettere di Filippo Silva al principe Giovanni Andrea III Doria Landi (1684-1723)’, in La musica a Roma nel Seicento: studi e prospettive di ricerca, Anne-Marie Goulet e Caroline Giron-Panel (hsg.), Roma, Publications de l’École française de Rome 2013
• La musica alla corte del cardinale Benedtto Pamphilj (1653-1730), Kassel, Merseburger [forthcoming]

• Die Carlen-Orgeln von Ritzingerfeld und Münster (Goms. Wallis), CD, Swiss Radio DRS2 2002
  
• Die Truenorgel von Bernhard Fleig [...], CD, Musica Sacra Muttenz 2004
  
• ¡Que niño tan bello!, 2 CD’s, Arcophon 2007
  
• Mottetti e musica per organo di Bernardo Pasquini, CD, Tactus 2009
  
• Pasquini: Passion Cantatas, CD, Brilliant Classics 2012
  
• Francesco Mancini. Recorder Concertos (Naples 1725), 2CD’s, Brilliant Classics 2012
  
• Domenico Scarlatti. Sonatas for Violin and Continuo, CD, Brilliant Classics 2014
  
• Alessandro Scarlatti, Sinfonie di concerto grosso, 2 CDs, Brilliant Classics 2015