Bernardo Illari is an Argentine-Italian musicologist and composer specializing in Latin American music before 1830, and Argentine national music of the 19th and 20th centuries. He published Doménico Zipoli: para una genealogía de la música »clásica« latinoamericana (2011), the facsimile of Juan Pedro Esnaola’s Cuaderno de música (1844) (2009) and the edited volume, Música barroca del Chiquitos jesuítico (1998). He teaches at the University of North Texas since 2001.