Paweł Gancarczyk - Biography#

Paweł Gancarczyk is Associate Professor at the Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw where he is also Head of the Department of Musicology (2019-). He studied musicology at the University of Warsaw (PhD, 1999), including periods as a visiting student at Royal Holloway, University of London (1993) and Charles University, Prague (1997). Following completion of his doctoral studies, he took up a research position at the Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences (1999-now) and as an Assistant Professor (p/t) at the University of Warsaw (2008, 2010–13). He served as President of the Musicologists’ Section of the Polish Composers’ Union from 2011 to 2015, and is Editor-in-Chief of the leading musicological journal in the Polish language, Muzyka. He serves on the editorial boards of the leading Czech peer-reviewed musicological journal Hudební věda and the Prague periodical Musicalia, the series Wiener Forum für ältere Musikgeschichte published by Hollitzer Verlag (Vienna), and Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart. Gancarczyk's monograph Musica scripto (2001) received the Prof. H. Feicht Award of the Polish Composers’ Union, awarded once a year for the best dissertation by a young Polish musicologist under 40. His French-language monograph ‘La musique et la révolution de l’imprimerie’ was awarded the 2016 Prix des Muses. Gancarczyk was Principal Investigator of the Warsaw team in the transnational research project Sound Memories: The Musical Past in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe (www.soundme.eu, 2016-19), funded by the international HERA (Humanities in the European Research Area) consortium. Currently he is PI of the project ‘Music in the Teutonic Order State in Prussia: Sources, Repertoires, Contexts’, funded by the National Science Centre, PL.