Piotr Nawrot

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Nawrot before a Capitol Hill Chorale concert of Bolivian Baroque music, December 2018

Piotr Nawrot (born 1955) is a Polish Roman Catholic priest and musicologist, known for his work in the field of Latin American Baroque music.

A native of

Chiquito, and other tribes,[2][4] many in the Santa Cruz Department.[5] He also discovered music in the Convent of Santa Clara in Cochabamba.[6] He has since reconstructed, edited, and published more than thirty volumes of music from the reductions,[2] and continues to preserve and perform it with the assistance of local organizations and the Catholic Church.[1] Nawrot was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1998 for his musicological work.[7] A member of the Anthropos Institute and the Bolivian Academy of Ecclesiastical History, he became creative director of the International Festival of American Renaissance and Baroque Music, “Misiones de Chiquitos” in 1997.[3] He is also a member of the theology faculty of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań.[8][9]

References

  1. ^ a b "Polish missionary finds Baroque music still evangelizes in Bolivia - The Compass". 19 March 2015. Retrieved 20 November 2018.
  2. ^ a b c d "Fr. Piotr Nawrot, SVD". www.svdvocations.org. Retrieved 20 November 2018.
  3. ^ a b c "Piotr Nawrot - Speaker - ISPA International Society for the Performing Arts". www.ispa.org. Retrieved 20 November 2018.
  4. ^ Casey, Nicholas. "Jesuit Legacy in the Bolivian Jungle: A Love of Baroque Music". Retrieved 20 November 2018.
  5. ^ Design, HLVC. "Pedro Nawrot, musicologist & missionary". www.panamzone.net. Retrieved 20 November 2018.
  6. ^ "Father Piotr Nawrot highlights music files from Bolivia". 8 September 2017. Retrieved 20 November 2018.
  7. ^ "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation - Piotr Nawrot". www.gf.org. Retrieved 20 November 2018.
  8. ^ "Piotr Nawrot - Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań - Academia.edu". amu.academia.edu. Retrieved 2 December 2018.
  9. ^ ""Misiones de Chiquitos" o. prof. Piotra Nawrota - Życie Uniwersyteckie". Retrieved 2 December 2018.