PhD Grzegorz Joachimiak

PhD in the humanities. His research focuses on musical culture of the 17th and 18th centuries, music in Silesia and in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, in both courtly and ecclesiastical settings, with particular emphasis on lute and chamber music, musical patronage, source studies, music editing, and the reception of early music. He is affiliated with Wrocław’s academic centers: the Institute of Musicology at the University of Wrocław, where since 2020 he has served as Head of the Department of Historical Musicology, and the Department of Organ, Harpsichord, and Early Music at the Karol Lipiński Academy of Music in Wrocław.

He collaborates with numerous research institutions, including the Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences, and is a member of the working group “Tablature in Western Music” within the International Musicological Society. He is actively involved in promoting science, notably as Vice-Chair since 2019 of the Academy of Young Scholars and Artists, part of the Wrocław Academic Centre.

He has been awarded scholarships from DAAD, the Lanckoroński Foundation, and the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education (scholarship for outstanding young scientists). He is also a laureate of the Rev. Prof. Hieronim Feicht Prize in the 18th edition of the competition for the best doctoral dissertation, organized by the Musicologists’ Section of the Polish Composers’ Union.