Alejandra Béjar Bartolo – a Mexican performer and musicologist – is a Full Professor of piano and musicology at the Department of Music and Performing Arts of the University of Guanajuato, Mexico. She is a member of the Core Faculty of Master’s and Doctor’s Degrees at the University of Guanajuato, the Core Faculty (‘Cuerpo Académico Consolidado’) of ‘Musicology’ and the Mexican National System of Researchers, a body set up by the National Council for Science and Technology of Mexico. After a degree in piano, she has studied musicology at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain), and received her Ph.D. in Arts from the University of Guanajuato. As pianist and harpsichordist (with the ‘Baroque Ensemble’ of the University of Guanajuato) she has given over 200 concerts in Mexico and Italy. She has published several articles in international musicological journals, chapters and books, among which are Francesco Antonio Pistocchi, Madrigale “Gran Dio, ah, voi languite” (Lucca, Libreria Musicale Italiana, 2012) and Francesco Antonio Pistocchi, Scherzi musicali, [op. II] - Duetti e terzetti, op. III (Lucca, Libreria Musicale Italiana, 2015).
