Renzo Cresti, former director and History of Music teacher at the Conservatory of Lucca, was Artistic Advisor of the Teatro del Giglio in Lucca and of the European Community project ‘Sonata di Mare’. He is President of the Musical Chapel of the Cathedral of Lucca. He is an Honorary Member of the Italian Society of Contemporary Music, which appointed him Coordinator for the centenary initiatives of its foundation in 2023. He is a founding member and artistic director of the Lucca Cluster Association. As a musicologist, he has written or edited 51 volumes, mainly focusing on 20th-century and contemporary music. A remarkable publication is the Enciclopedia Italiana dei Compositori Contemporanei, in 3 vols. and with 10 CDs (Amazon 2000). He has been writing in numerous journals, of which he was also Editor-in-Chief. Many of his essays have been translated into English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese and Japanese. He has always dealt with didactics, also writing the book La Vita della Musica (Edizioni Feeria, 2008), and with various authors, with the volumes Giacomo Puccini e il Postmoderno (Ed. dell’Erba, 2007) and Richard Wagner e la poetica del puro umano (Libreria Musicale Italiana, 2012, translated into English). He has published the volume on the European 20th century Ragioni e sentimenti (Libreria Musicale Italiana, 2015) and the book on Italian contemporary music Musica presente (Libreria Musicale Italiana, 2019), with the same title, he directs the Collana di incisioni musicali present on all online platforms. His latest books are Sylvano Bussotti e l’opera geniale (Maschietto Editore, 2021) and La musica, i luoghi, gli sguardi (Amazon 2022).