Piano Summer presents a lecture-debate on “The Power of Music in the Fight for Women’s Professional Empowerment: The Case of Fanny Mendelssohn,” which will be held on December 9, 2025, at 10:00 a.m., in the Auditorium of the S. Castromediano Museum in Lecce.
The event will feature several professionals who have been working on gender issues for years. The speaker will be Professor Mariacarla De Giorgi, a musicologist at the University of Salento. Speakers in the debate will include Professor Anna Rita Gabellone, a political scientist, professor of History of European Political Thought, and director of the “Bianca Gelli” Women’s Observatory Study Center; Dr. Serenella Molendini, former National Equality Advisor and President of the CRUIS Association; and Dr. Maria Cristina Solombrino, a teaching manager in the Department of Human and Social Sciences at the University of Salento and President of the Soroptimist International Club of Lecce. The meeting aims to explore the role of music in the context of women’s emancipation, focusing specifically on the figure of Fanny Mendelssohn, to understand how long and difficult the path to women’s emancipation has been and how much work still needs to be done today for a more equal professional world!