Musicologist Guido Olivieri, teaches history of music and directs the Early Music Ensemble "Austinato". Before joining the faculty at the BSOM, Olivieri has been a Research Fellow at the University of Liverpool (UK) and at The Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America at Columbia University, and a Mellon Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan. In Spring 2018 he was the Robert M. Trotter Visiting Distinguished Professor at the University of Oregon.

His research focuses on the development of the 18th-century instrumental music; he has investigated musical patronage, performance practices, networks of music production, musicians' mobility, and the artistic cultures in European capitals, including Naples, Paris, Vienna, London and Madrid, and in Latin America. His groundbreaking research, conducted on overlooked archival sources and repertory, has significantly contributed new narratives to the development of 18th-century instrumental music and musicians.

Olivieri is the author of String Virtuosi in Eighteenth-Century Naples: Culture, Power, and Music Institutions (Cambridge University Press, 2024), and editor of the volume Marchitelli, Mascitti e la musica strumentale napoletana fra Sei e Settecento (LIM, 2023). He has co-edited a book on Arcangelo Corelli (LIM, 2015) and the edition of A. Corelli, Le sonate da camera di Assisi (LIM, 2015). He has contributed entries to the New Grove Dictionary of Music, MGG, and Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani.

Olivieri has always championed the significance of public musicology. He contributed to several CD projects and frequently collaborated with international artists and ensembles specialized in early music, publishing critical editions of the music he has rediscovered, such as the two cello sonatas by Giovanni Bononcini available in open-access at: http://www.sedm.it/sedm/en/instrumental-music/157-bononcini-olivieri.html. He is currently working at the critical edition of D. Cimarosa's masterwork Il matrimonio segreto (Bärenreiter).

Olivieri has presented at meetings of the American Musicological, the International Musicological, and the Italian Musicological societies, and has given lectures and workshops at academic institutions around the world, including the University of Chicago, Georgetown University, UNAM (Mexico), University of Toronto, University of Roma3, University of Naples, and the Conservatories of Naples, Milan, and Brussels.