Baroque Music from the Jesuit Missions Among the Chiquito and Moxo Ethnic Groups

Born in Poznan (Poland), he is a doctor of musicology and completed his studies in theology and sociology, obtaining his degree at the Catholic University of Lublin in 1981. In 1985 he studied at Georgetown University in Washington DC and at the Catholic University of America. In 1988 he completed his studies in Liturgical Music earning the Master's degree. The same year he obtained the Paul Hanly Ferfey scholarship that allowed him to obtain the degree of doctor in musical arts with the presentation of his thesis Musical Vespers in the Reductions of Paraguay.

Since May 1994, he has worked in La Paz (Bolivia) as Master of the Chapel of the Cathedral of Our Lady, Professor of Liturgy at the Conciliar Seminary of San Gerónimo and Professor of Musicology, Greto-Gothic Canto and organ of the National Conservatory of Music. Nawrot is a member of the Anthropos Institute in Germany and the Bolivian Academy of Ecclesiastical History and director of the International Festival of American Renaissance and Baroque Music "Misiones de Chiquitos". Desce 2003 is a member of APAC (Asociación Pro Arte y Cultura). Nawrot's work has been awarded with a grant from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation to investigate the influence of the natives in the establishment and development of musical baroque in the Bolivian reductions. Based on their research, about 40 concerts are organized annually in Europe, North America, South America and Asia with music from the Jesuit Reductions of Bolivia. It has published 20 volumes with studies and musical scores on the repertoire of the Reductions and the Colony in Bolivia.

Piotr Nawrot is a professor at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan. In March 2012, he received the Honorary Mention of the Queen Sofía International Award for Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage from Queen Sofía.