Leonardo Waisman

Leonardo Waisman, a musicologist with a PhD from UChicago (1988), taught for many years in Buenos Aires and Córdoba. He recently retired from his position as Senior Research Fellow at CONICET, followed by a term as the Bolívar Visiting Chair at the University of Cambridge. Waisman was one of the first scholars to study the music of the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Jesuit reducciones in present-day Paraguay and Bolivia. His most recent book, Una história de la música colonial hispanoamericana, is a kind of summa of his 40 years of work on “colonial” music. As a conductor specializing in Baroque music, he has toured America, Europe, and Asia, and has recorded two CDs for the Melopea label.