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The Jesuit missions of 17th- and 18th-century Bolivia produced massive corpuses of sacred music, rivaling the output of most contemporary European churches. In this talk, musicologist Fr. Piotr Nawrot will share his research on this unique corpus of music—its history; its unique musical style, characterized by both European and indigenous influences; and the revival of this music today

 

Rev. Prof. Piotr Nawrot has been working in Bolivia for more than 20 years, and has dedicated his scholarly and artistic career to the popularization of missionary baroque music from former Jesuit missionary churches. He is the organiser and artistic director of the "Misiones de Chiquitos" International Festival of American Renaissance and Baroque Music in Santa Cruz, which brings together artists and musicians from more than 24 countries around the globe. Fr. Nawrot has been the recipient of the Queen Isabella Catholic Medal, the International Queen Sophia Award, the Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland, the Benermerenti in Opere Evangelizationis Award, and the Guggenheim Fellowship.