Conference: IASPM Italy "Everybody calls me Giorgio": Moroder across media, arts and communication (10. –12.09.2026, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano-Bulsan)

Everybody calls me Giorgio»: Moroder across media, arts and communication

A IASPM Italy + IASPM D-A-CH international conference aimed at exploring Giorgio Moroder’s achievements and his influence on music and culture at large.

10 Sept - 12 Sept 2026

Free University of Bozen-Bolzano-Bulsan

Giorgio Moroder’s biographical and professional history is remarkable and quite peculiar: belonging to a linguistic minority, raised in a region culturally and geographically removed from the main centres of the music industry, without any formal musical education, he nonetheless managed to become one of the most innovative and successful musicians on the planet.
This conference will be an opportunity to take a closer look Giorgio Moroder’s role in music and media, as well as broader, interconnected themes such as dance music, studio production, arts entrepreneurship, film music, intermediality, and remix cultures. The conference will also explore cultural heritage, sociolinguistics and migration routes in music and the arts, drawing on Moroder’s history as an artist born and raised in the predominantly Ladin-speaking Val Gardena/Gröden/Gherdëina in South Tyrol, Italy, then professionally matured in Germany and eventually relocated to the United States.

Further information: https://www.unibz.it/en/events/everybody-calls-me-giorgio-moroder-across-media-arts-and-communication

Program: https://www.unibz.it/assets/Events/Pdf/press-events/ECMG26_Programme.pdf