PhD Grzegorz Joachimiak

Doctor of Humanities.

He specialises in 17th- and 18th-century musical culture, music in Silesia and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, in court and church centres, with a particular focus on lute and chamber music, musical patronage, source studies, music editing and issues related to the reception of early music. He is associated with academic centres in Wrocław: the Institute of Musicology at the University of Wrocław, where he has been head of the Department of Historical Musicology since 2020, and the Department of Organ, Harpsichord and Early Music at the Karol Lipiński Academy of Music in Wrocław. He collaborates with many scientific institutions, including the Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences, and is a member of the working group ‘Tablature in Western Music’ operating within the International Musicological Society. He is involved in activities promoting science, including at the Academy of Young Scholars and Artists (vice-president since 2019) operating within the Wrocław Academic Centre. He is a scholarship holder of the DAAD, the Lanckoroński Foundation, the Minister of Science and Higher Education (scholarship for outstanding young scientists), and the recipient of the Rev. Prof. Hieronim Feicht Award in the 18th edition of the competition for the best doctoral thesis organised by the Musicologists' Section of the Polish Composers' Union.