Dr. Mauricio Molina
Course director, Music theory, Medieval Ensemble, Frame Drums, Manuscript to Performance
Dr. Mauricio Molina is a historical musicologist and medieval music performer dedicated to the study, reconstruction, and performance of music composed during the High Middle Ages (1100-1300). He is also an established and award-winning professor, writer, and researcher in the fields of medieval music, and medieval art and culture. Mauricio is the director of the MMB-University of Lleida “Specialist Program in Medieval Music Research and Performance” and of the International Course on Medieval Music Performance of Besalú (onsite and online). He is also professor of medieval art and culture at the Institute for American Universities and a member of the Consolidated Medieval Studies Research Group of the University of Lleida (Spain). Mauricio has published numerous articles in scholarly journals and is the author of “Frame Drums in the Medieval Iberian Peninsula” (Reichenberger 2010), a book that received the Nicholas Besseraboff Prize of the American Musical Instrument Society as the most distinguished book-length work on organology of 2010. He is the director of the medieval music ensembles Magister Petrus (Spain) and Na Rota do Peregrino (Portugal).
Interview on Catalunya Música (Spanish & Catalan)
The International Course of Medieval Music Besalú offers singers and instrumentalists the possibility of studying the repertoires of monodic and polyphonic music composed between the 11th and 13th centuries.
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